Linux

Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media


Anis Shivani

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.

Free Linux Software Bridges Brazil's Digital Divide

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.30.2009 | World


Eric Ehrmann

Fifty million Brazilian students will have Christmas in July when software Santa slips down the chimney to give them a free ticket on the information highway.

Obama and Free Software

James Love | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media


James Love

While free software was once considered by some as a fringe movement, it is now mainstream. Fortune 500 companies are embracing free software programs like R to analyze data.

Microsoft Roils the World with FAT Patents

Brian Kahin | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business


Brian Kahin

Some wishful thinkers may accept Microsoft's claim that this is about TomTom rather than Linux. But this is a landmark assault into the most troubled and controversial terrain of the patent system.

Free Software

James Love | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business


James Love

It will be important for individuals to switch to Linux, not only from Microsoft, but also from Apple. Today many free software proponents don't use free software themselves.

Users Plead Microsoft To Save Windows XP

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business


SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software m...

Google Phone Prototypes Debut In Spain

PC Magazine | Sascha Segan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Mobile World Congress became the coming-out party for Google's Android OS as four mobile processor vendors showed off pre-production devices runni...