It’s too early to say for certain, but there are very encouraging signs that the world’s standards bodies will vote in favour of a single unified ISO (”International Standards Organisation”) document format standard. There is already one document format standard - ODF, and currently the ISO is considering a proposal to bless an alternative, Microsoft’s OpenXML, as another standard.

The best program I found for doing this was PortableApps, free software that packs a suite of open source applications—including OpenOffice—into a handy menu that runs straight off any USB flash drive.

Version 0.7.1 of FreeCol, a free/open-source Colonization clone, has been released.

Proprietary code powers the world banks, networks, voting machines and other critical applications that we regularly interact with. But the real question is where mission critical applications like this can be done with open source code, as many open source advocates would like to see happen.

Global Server Load Balancing is the automatic routing of users to the nearest / fastest server to them based on their source IP. Typically a GSLB solution requires expensive application switches at each site, and additional software licenses that run into the thousands of dollars.

Could open source kill the golden egg that laid Google? If Wikia has its way, it just might.

The GPL version 3 has been out for six weeks, and the debate about whether to adopt it remains heated.

This just in from Palamida: roughly 50 percent of active projects licensed under the GPL are now GPLv3. In just one month. That's huge.