Open Source

Personal cloud storage is all the rage. But what if you don't want your data out in the cloud?

Just days after the Mandriva community started its own plans for the next release of the French Linux distribution, its commercial sponsor has formally announced that the community will take the lead on all Mandriva Linux development moving forward.

Your dad’s Wall Street Journal was the sheet that aimed to tell you everything you needed to know that morning to face the many-headed, irrational beast known as The Market. Your Wall Street Journal? It wants to have the very best sourcing on what your next iPhone is going to look like, and it usually succeeds.

Skype for Linux seems poised for movement after many months of stagnation. But with all the competition, is Skype itself about to fade away?

It’s no secret that Apple and Google have the kind of relationship that touring bands have with Ticketmaster: an aspiring artist with a thinly veiled contempt for the company that has all the right connections.

Facebook's new App Center is open source-friendly. But could the rise of marketplaces prevent FLOSS apps from being distributed?

The first version of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation has been released. What does it mean for the software and the ASF?

It's not just data accessibility and privacy that SaaS needs to keep open.

The Oracle v. Google case is about the copyrighting of APIs. No matter what some still try to tell you.

Just in time for its developer conference next week, the Tizen project has quietly released the 1.0 version of the mobile OS.

A new joint-venture between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft settles the pending litigation, and raises questions about the future of an Android-based Nook.