The city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, is about to pass a resolution endorsing open source, open standards, and open...

The U.S. House has inserted language advocating open source into the latest military procurement bill. But it will take more than a report, or rhetoric,

This was a hard year. It was a year where “working for” became a danger signal. Anyone whose salary came from someone else was looking over their shoulder all year long, waiting on the lay-off notice. And it came for millions. The year became known...

If there was one word that could get Open Source readers more passionate than Microsoft in 2009, it was Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not the most profitable Linux, and it’s not the distro with the biggest penetration of any major market. But partly due to its...

There are some stories at Open Source that are guaranteed to get an audience. Anything with Microsoft in it. Anything with Firefox in it. Any mention of Ubuntu. But not all stories are of this type. Usually, when I color outside the lines of your...

It has become something of a running gag. Whenever I feel a need for traffic, and talkbacks, I just write something with Microsoft or Windows in the title and y’all come running. (This is an April Fool’s image of CEO Steve Ballmer with a...

Firefox 3.6 is moving closer to release. On Thursday, Mozilla announced the fifth beta release of the forthcoming browser update. Beta 5 offers improvements in performance, support for third party applications and user interface choices. In the...