Bill SnyderAs open source goes mainstream, big commercial software companies reap as much revenue as scrappy independents
Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success? A provocative new study by a longtime software analyst suggests that the giants of the commercial software world are cashing in on the popularity of open [...]
I have been asked to review the XO computers from the One Laptop Per Child project. This is the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences, as well as those of some children with whom I will be working. I could easily gush over it or complain about how small the keyboard [...]
Well it is a long story but I slapped together a computer for a friend and she said to install a linux distro on it. Well her fav distro is Arch one that I have had a problem or two with as the years have gone by but okay one more time for her.
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Automattic, the parent company of popular open source blogging platform WordPress, announced this week it received $29 million in funding from four investors who will take a minority stake in the company. Though this isn’t the first round of financing for the not quite three-year-old company, it has drawn a lot of notice because one [...]
According to a press release issued earlier this month by Finjan, a security research firm, compromised Web servers are infecting thousands of visitors daily with malware that turns their Windows machines into unwitting bots to do the bidding of an as yet unidentified criminal organization. Security firms ScanSafe and SecureWorks have since added their own [...]
