Charges ahead next year

The US military is set to charge ahead into open source next year after an amendment to the National Defense Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2018.

Open Source messiah Richard Stallman is not impressed

Microsoft has been hitting the headlines lately with its enthusiasm for Linux – but Open Source's messiah Richard Stallman is less than impressed.

While claiming that this year was the year of the Linux desktop

Jim Zemlin, President of the Linux Foundation, appears to have hit levels of fail unprecedented in the open saucy world.

Otherwise a lot of history will disappear

A petition is asking Adobe to release Flash into the hands of the open-source community.

Disgusted by the hate

Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth says that he has become disgusted with the level of hate in the free software community.

Linux Foundation warns

Companies who do not use open source software will eventually go tits-up according to a top open saucy type.

Sorry Steve , the "cancer" won 

A few years ago, Microsoft’s shy and retiring CEO Steve “there is a kind of hush” Ballmer described Linux as a cancer on computing and spent a fortune trying to kill it. Now Vole has surprised the world by joining the Linux Foundation as a platinum member.

Likely to be the industry standard

The blockchain platform which will be a key feature of financial networks will be open sourced.

Coming to a Mac and Linux machine near you

Software King of the World, Microsoft, has announced that its Powershell automation and scripting system is going open source.

Before Oracle could do it

Oracle claims that Google’s court-room win gaining fair-use rights over a thousand lines of java APIs in Android will mean that Open Source is dead.