Today's closed source software vendors have a very neat, tidy arrangement that works well for them on both the Windows and OS X platforms. Create a software application that solves a need, release updates and patches as needed, then collect the revenue generated from the sale of the software.

Although you still find some members of the free software community who automatically view business with suspicion, for the most part the community considers the multibillion dollar open source industry as a validation of its beliefs.

There was a time when I had a work calendar on my employer's Exchange server and a home calendar in Kontact. Then my wife had a paper calendar on the wall in our office. Addresses and phone numbers were spread across Exchange at work, Kontact and Quicken at home, and a vast array of sticky notes and scratch pieces of paper generously scattered throughout the house.

Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of individual performance improvements, but there are also new features, some of which may slow things down. This the natural balance in software development, but in the end, what is the net effect on performance from one version to the next? Is it realistic to expect new features and faster performance?

Microsoft seems to suggest that Novell ought to know what it is that it's paying Microsoft for.

Many people in this world might have written a lot on linux. Now its my turn. And why not, it is really a wonderful operating system stable, secure and also free ;-). I got a taste of unix when i was in Aptech and when i was in NCST, Banglore i worked for one whole year on linux. I even did coding on vi editor. Not only me but most of my batchmates love linux. So here goes my story.

Over the years, I’ve developed a generalized theory about the relative cost of getting things done in Windows versus that of Linux, and as something of a corollary, the reason a lot of people say Linux is too hard, or “not ready for the desktop.”

Encouraging signs of ODF adoption in Europe, signs of possible intervention by Microsoft et al.