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Get your licensing shop in order before you build you new server.

Impossible to marry enterprise and community needs in oneopen source licence.

Microsoft is now officially an open source vendor.

A hydrogen car would have car enthusiasts excited, but the Riversimple urban car also has the tech community smiling; its detailed plans are totally open-source, making it the future Linux of automobiles

Not Apache, MySQL or Firefox, but lesser-known apps that serve a particular function very well – a Top Ten of open-source applications you’ve never heard of.

It doesn't make sense for all software to be open sourced, developercharges.

Vendor squabbling is a recipe for confusion, says Gartner.

Open Solutions Alliance hopes to increase adoption of open source apps.

Bill would move state records to open format.

Sun adds mobile Java to the open source mix.

Shared Source licence seeks official open source label.

Closed source software seen as greater security risk.

Most important software trend in decades, says IDC.

In an exclusive interview, Stallman discusses his views on free versus proprietary and open source software, social networking sites and privacy issues.

Redmond forced to provide free, irrevokable patent pledge to non-commercial open source.