Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are "wrong by default". It's the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism. And the most dangerous kind of tribalism is completely invisible: it has nothing to do with someone's "birth tribe" and everything to do with their affiliations: where they work, which sports team they support, which linux distribution they love.

Patent lawyers and software giants whom they are representing (also lawyers that become patent trolls) jeopardise emerging companies, almost all of which do not want software to be patentable

As part of his Python Development Masterclass, Kunal Deo drew up some golden rules when working with Python. Have you got any Python gems to share?

In this article, I will give you 10 good reasons why you should do just this. In the end, you can decide for yourself whether they’re reason enough to migrate those young users away from other operating systems.

Even though my goto operating system for servers is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, lately I have been working with Canonical’s Ubuntu Server 10.04 and I will admit that it has so far been a great experience. Just like what is expected of a server operating system, it is not intended for the general user base and focused more toward an experience Linux user

The Grameen Foundation, which has Microsoft ties, apparently promotes predatory loaners and uses terms like "open source" to get attention

It´s a long standing joke, but I think two or three years ago people stopped claiming next year will be the year of the Linux desktop. Not sure why that is.