[ad_1] Opinions vary on whether open source companies can make money, thrive, and truly compete with their proprietary counterparts. As a CEO and co-founder of an open source company, I am frequently challenged to reflect on our strategy, company ethos, and commercial risks we undertake—not only on behalf of the shareholders, but also our employees,…

[ad_1] In October I appeared on the 100th episode of The Dave and Gunnar Show, an independent podcast about open source and open government issues hosted by two members of Red Hat’s public sector team. We spoke at length about The Open Organization (one of my all-time favorite topics!), and the interview gave me a…

[ad_1] I’ve been an avid user of Internet Archive since I found out about it five years ago. Since then, I’ve used their Wayback Machine to search for fun glimpses at the World Wide Web of yore, but I’ve also benefited from the Archive as a distribution platform. I’ve discovered musical performances by old forgotten jazz…

[ad_1] Eleven years ago, Firefox 1.0 was released with much excitement and anticipation. With the help of volunteers, The Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page advertisement in the New York Times. Over the last 11 years, Firefox has been been used by millions of people worldwide, becoming one of the most popular web browsers available to…

[ad_1] In this article, I focus on music in digital formats. Moreover, because I am a Linux kind-of-guy, I’m going to take a Linux kind-of-perspective on this topic. Most people have heard of the MP3 format. It’s an example of two things: First, it is not an open format, as a number of organizations claim patents…

[ad_1] I grew up in the VAX/VMS world. Our student computing system at the college I attended was a VAX 11/785, and when I would later work for the administrative computing department, they had an 11/780 as a test box, and an 11/785 and 8650 cluster doing production work. Picture a room full of refrigerators…

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[ad_1] Hello, open gaming fans! In this week’s edition, we take a look at a Linux Kernel 4.1 update for SteamOS, Nvidia support for Vulkan, Objects in Space and open hardware, and more. Open gaming roundup for October 31 – November 6, 2015 Ready for the Steam Machines? Valve’s Steam Machines are hitting the market on…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a new release of Docker, R-Hub for R packages, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s acquisition of Code Club, and more! Open source news: November 1 – 7, 2015 Docker 1.9 released Docker announced the release of Docker 1.9 and updated…

[ad_1] October was a solid traffic month for Opensource.com, with 681,334 page views and 110 articles published. We published 17 articles by first-time Opensource.com contributors, and we kicked off a new community column, My Open Source Story. We reported from All Things Open and the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and we…