Microsoft Joins Linux on OLPC, May 18, 2008

Microsoft on Thursday struck a deal to make its Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops, intended to bring technology to the world’s poor.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is gunning for Google. But at least one analyst is warning it’s a mighty long shot.

Palm's mobile operating system revolutionized the handheld computer and helped usher in the smartphone, but the struggling mobile device maker has decided it is time to hop on the Linux bandwagon.

New products released Monday by the Linux Foundation will likely make life easier for software makers and promote further adoption of open-source software.

Software behemoth Microsoft could be one of the biggest losers from proposed license changes to the Linux operating system unveiled Wednesday.

Networking startup Vyatta launched an open-source router appliance on Monday, moving deeper into the billion-dollar networking market dominated by Cisco and Juniper.

Linux kernel creator speaks out about the current controversy over an update to the key open-source license.

As the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author of the widely used GNU Public License, Mr. Stallman is not just a huge proponent of free software, he opposes what he sees as any kind of restriction on intellectual freedom. Owning a cell phone is giving into being monitored by mobile phone companies, he argues.

Take my intellectual property, please. That was the surprising message from Microsoft Tuesday as it promised not to not to sue developers who use its key web services-related intellectual property.

Is Michael Robertson afraid of anything? The entrepreneur has a made a career—and a fortune—playing rough with giants. Now, though, he’s turning up the volume: predicting an end to Apple’s hold on digital music, shaking up the Linux community by looking to marry open source smarts with proprietary know how, and talking trash about Microsoft’s new Zune.

Open-source advocate Eric Raymond on winning over the iPod generation, and why now is the time for Linux advocates to gun for Microsoft on the desktop.

A panel discussion at LinuxWorld urged developers on Wednesday to get religion about Linux on the desktop and consider the generation of users who expect music and video at their fingertips.

In an email interview with Red Herring, Mr. Torvalds says the increasing focus of venture capitalists and large companies on open source can only be good for a community that, until now, was on the fringes of the commercial realm.

As the world of software consolidates and open-source programs become more popular, some observers think MySQL is the company most likely to be acquired by a software giant.

The Symbian operating system dominates pricey smartphones, but Linux may find its place in low-end ‘feature’ phones.

According to Gartner, 45 percent of midsize businesses are already building some applications with Linux. That’s up from virtually nothing a couple of years ago. IBM is responsible for at least some of that gro

On Monday, the Norwegian minister of modernization, Morten Andreas Meyer, told attendees to an Oslo press conference “proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government.”

Ms. Farris says the company will achieve its objectives not by convincing potential customers to shift to Linux, but by focusing on those companies and organizations that already have Linux deployed and are looking for more applications or have a strategic initiative to adopt and move toward open source.

The low-cost computer will have a 14-inch color screen, AMD chips, and will run Linux software, Mr. Negroponte said during an interview Friday with Red Herring at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Excerpts from the book 'Bill Gates Unplugged' where the co-founder of Microsoft comments on the Linux phenomenon