Software radical Richard Stallman helped build the Linux revolution. Now he threatens to tear it apart.
The free Linux operating system set off one of the biggest revolutions in the history of computing when it leapt from the fingertips of a Finnish college kid named Linus Torvalds 15 years ago. Linux now drives $15 billion in [...]

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has opposed GPL version 3 since its draft surfaced in January.
Nine months and one discussion draft later, he still isn’t having it and he’s not alone.
A who’s who list of the top Linux kernel developers has joined Torvalds in rejection of the proposed GPLv3. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, [...]

Today, the cheap revolution is focused on back-end data centers, where big shops are replacing expensive Unix servers with clusters of low-cost Linux-on-Intel machines. But phase two of the Linux revolution is targeting user desktops.
Linux today has less than 2% market share on the desktop. That’s because with past versions of Linux only hackers could [...]

Fans of the free Linux operating system should be popping champagne tonight. A judge has tossed out most of the claims in a case claiming Linux contained stolen code.
SCO Group (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ), of Lindon, Utah, is suing IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), claiming IBM stole code from [...]

Novell’s SUSE Linux 10.1, code-named the “Agama Lizard,” is now available for download in its final form.
SUSE Linux developer Andreas Jaeger noted in a March posting to the openSUSE mailing list that the release schedule was revised to “strengthen the quality of SUSE Linux 10.1.” At the time, Jaeger mentioned two areas to be strengthened: [...]

Members of the Free and Open Source Community and its associated ecosystem are giving the thumbs up to the first draft of the new GPL 3 license.
Barely a week old, GPL 3 is a draft intended to solicit discussion and comment.
While IBM and Novell think that it’s still a bit early to tell, others, such [...]

After two days, the big Linux trade show here hasn’t produced any big surprises or high drama. But there is plenty of evidence that the alternative operating system is sitting solidly in the mainstream. So solidly that “over 50% of our customers will use Linux in the next five years, if not sooner,” Phillips said.
By [...]

The following are the minutes of the ILUG-Cal meeting held on July 10, 2004 at the Seminar Hall of the Chemical Engineering department of Jadavpur University.
1. The meeting started a little after 10:30 A.M. First Indranil Das Gupta, the co-ordinator of the Kolkata LUG. introduced the LUG to the first time attendees [...]

The following are the minutes of the ILUG-Cal meeting held on July 10, 2004 at the Seminar Hall of the Chemical Engineering department of Jadavpur University.
1. The meeting started a little after 10:30 A.M. First Indranil Das Gupta, the co-ordinator of the Kolkata LUG. introduced the LUG to the first time attendees [...]

Tony Healy, a research software engineer and policy researcher in Sydney, Australia has recently authored a 4 page report (hereafter termed as the Report) titled ”Has Open Source reached its limits?” for The Institute for Policy Innovation.
IPI,as the Report states is ‘a non-profit,non-partisan educational organization founded in 1987. IPI’s purposes are to conduct research, [...]