17.02.2010
A recent article suggests that the low participation of women is a reason for avoiding FOSS is a perversion of the original statistic -- and a strange argument to make by any standards.
04.02.2010
If FOSS journalists and FOSS developers sometimes fight, that's because their interests are not identical.
27.01.2010
Is Ubuntu's switch from Google to Yahoo! a sign of a new business orientation in Canonical Software?
22.01.2010
Is the fact that 75% of Linux kernel contributions are by paid developers a sign of defeat or qualified victory?
17.01.2010
TinyURL is a brave attempt to overcome the need to use proprietary Flash. But will users choose software freedom over inconvenience?
13.01.2010
When Richard Stallman expressed support for selling GPL exceptions, many people were surprised. They shouldn't have been -- he was just following a tactic that the Free Software Foundation has used for years.
30.12.2009
Discussion in the FOSS community is getting increasingly ugly. Here are a few suggestions about how to improve it -- and to tell when someone doesn't want to improve it.
16.12.2009
The debate over whether GNOME should leave the GNU Project makes a lot more sense if you can remember the last six months.
07.12.2009
Everyone talks about the free software community, but before you can say it exists, you need to define your terms.