The next version of the General Public License may contain a clause to penalize companies that use software patents against free software. GPL version 3, a draft of which will be released in January ...

Two recent events should give for-profit companies new reasons to re-evaluate the ways in which they use open source software as well as the extent to which they use it. These events are: (1) the ...

Company agrees to appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses Cisco Systems will appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...

A leading free-software group has vowed to fight portions of a request to release information that could help the SCO Group in its legal battle against Linux. expanded GUTS section. "I'm not going to ...