Over at his other job, our David Gewirtz suggests that, with the absorption of Sun into Oracle, open source badly needs an open source patron and that IBM should apply.

Before Israel was founded in 1948 it made sense to conclude a Passover seder with the words “Next year in Jerusalem.” With Israel a reality the arguments over the phrase have changed. Yet they endure. Desktop Linux is the same sort of deal.

A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was "Wouldn't that be horrible for Novell's Linux?"

We are pleased to announce that Automattic has made a remarkable and generous donation by transferring ownership of the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation. We're honored to accept this donation, and to preserve and protect the trademark in the years ahead as a keystone part of the Foundation's mission to ensure that WordPress is around and thrives for generations to come.

Quick, name the most successful open source project of all time. You probably didn't hesitate a second did you? For better and sometimes for worse, Linux is the poster child for the open source movement. Is what's good for Linux, good for all open source?

With a little outreach effort, and embracing diversity as a core value, the Ohio LinuxFest has successfully recruited more women to share their experience at OLF.

When you're a fan of Linux, any blog post entitled "27 Good Reasons to Love Linux" is going to be impossible to resist. No wonder, then, that a recent post with just that title has created endless fodder for conversation in the Linux blogosphere of late.