Nokia’s plan to open source the Symbian mobile OS platform is no threat to mobile Linux, maintains the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin maintains that mobile Linux will continue to evolve and flourish in spite of Nokia’s plans and the formation of the Symbian Foundation, whose membership includes several members of LiMO including [...]

Building an open source bridge between the great writers and the wannabes, like me. What a clever idea. But that company name is faintly familiar, Martha Stewart!

Xandros scooped up Linspire today.

Suffice it to say no one has a mobile Internet interface that can really go toe-to-toe with the iPhone. We're all looking for a breakthrough on interfaces.

Open source does not do its best work in the dark corners, but in the light of day. That's where you'll realize the value, when your own people can share knowledge, and you get to share with the wider world.

MyOpenRouter offers developers a comprehensive user guide, applications forums and downloads. Best of all this isn't a stinky would-not-sell-otherwise router. It's got an internal diversity antenna to improve performance, and supports WPS.

Open-Xchange has released a preview version of its next generation open source collaboration server designed for the Web 2.0 era. Open-Xchange Server Edition, which will succeed Open-Xchange 6 and Open-Xchange Express Edition, features an Ajax-based, customizable user interface for managing emails, contacts, task and document sharing, new mashup capabilites provided by Netvibes Universal  Widget API and support [...]

What government can best provide to open source is education, encouragement and incentive. True broadband into every classroom, the best possible programmer training, a few contracts, a competitive market, and an attaboy are all I'd recommend.

Trust is the heart of open source. At its most basic vendors trust that those who download their software will contribute back to it, either financially or in some other way. Those who download trust they're not just getting malware.

What I'd like to see is a Code Recycling Center. Corporate development staffs could unload their open source code, in whatever condition it may be in, secure in the knowledge the right home will be found for it.

Publicis Groupe, the #4 ad agency worldwide, is tieing up its various online assets into what it calls the VivaKi Nerve Center, which it calls an "open source ad network." So where's the code?

Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It’s a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft’s longtime leader won’t usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely accelerate what is already a changing attitude in Redmond. “We [...]

We all know how to use a Web browser, we're familiar with a pen interface, why not start there and work outward? The good folks at Mozilla have already done your branding.

Thanks to open source the LiMo Foundation, the Android cats, and the Symbian boys are all working together on this one. Whether they know it or not a successful innovation by one will be quickly, and legally, cloned by the others.

No one person, inside or outside Sun, should be plotting its open source strategy. You can guide it, you can concentrate your own energies at key points, but there is no I in team. Open source requires team-building.

Demanding that medical researchers pool their findings before they get the money they need to proceed is highly audacious. We haven't heard the last from Bill Gates. I'm glad I'm still at my desk to cover the rest of the story.

It seems clear that, by placing the most popular mobile designs into an open source foundation, the basic strategy underlying both Google Android and the LiMo Foundation has been validated.

Nvidia reiterated that it won’t provide open source drivers for Linux because the company claims there is no need for it. Nvidia provides binary Linux drivers and has open sourced some drivers such as the nv X driver and other utilities that work with the proprietary driver, including the installer, config and settings.The company is a leading provider [...]

Linux kernel developers are getting tougher on Nvidia and a few other holdouts that have refused to release open source drivers. More than 100 Linux kernel developers – including top developer Andrew Morton – issued a letter today condemning closed source modules or drivers for Linux to be “harmful and undesirable. ” The group cites filesystems and [...]

While Amazon is getting the monitors first, and cooperated with Hyperic in the technology's development, Schneider said that over time all clouds will be covered. And everything will remain open source.