More than two dozen of the most prolific Linux kernel programmers dislike a proposed update to the General Public License, which governs many open-source projects. Out of 29 kernel coders, 28 rated ...

An open-source programmer stopped by the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, this week to tell Motorola and 12 other companies he believes they're using Linux in violation of the license that ...

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German court supports effort to enforce the GPL, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

This month, IBM's Linux efforts will reach a milestone as it registers the 100,000th developer working with IBM software to create Linux-based applications, Big Blue's Software Development Group ...

A programmer and tech enthusiast called ‘DeCrAzyO’ asked the important question, “Can it run Linux?” to the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). After a lot of investigating, troubleshooting ...

VA plans to install and run sites for companies that want to have a collective programming system for their own programming efforts. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Dennis Ritchie is being remembered today as a pioneering computer scientist, the "father of [the] C programming language," co-creator of the Unix operating system and "a 'titan' of the [computer] ...

This November, the Unix community has another notable anniversary to celebrate: the 40th birthday of the first edition of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie's Unix Programmers Manual, released in ...

OAKLAND, California -- Did Hans Reiser, the prominent Linux open source programmer, murder his wife, Nina Reiser? Hans Reiser, 43, whose Namesys company was responsible for the widely-used open source ...