InfoWorld: “The reason is clear: Open source licenses are designed to allow users to revise, fix, and extend their code. The barber or cop may not be familiar enough with code to contribute, but programmers sure know how to fiddle with their tools.”

LinuxInsider: “The goal isn’t to eradicate open source software from the organization — it’s to use it properly in the pursuit of the company’s goals.”

Texas Instruments has announced delivery of a mobile-grade, battery-optimized Wi-Fi solution to the open source Linux community as part of the OpenLink™ project, focused on providing a wide range of wireless connectivity solutions for native Linux.

One of the big advantages of using Linux is that its security tends to be so much better than that of the competing alternatives. That’s due in large part to the way Linux assigns permissions, but it’s also certainly true that the open source operating system is targeted by malware writers far less frequently than [...]

Linux distribution releases have been coming fast and furious this spring, bringing fans of the free and open source operating system more choices and more capabilities than ever before.

Google is baking specifications for a tablet based on its Chrome Operating System tablet in its open source code. With Android Honeycomb tablets marching, a Chrome OS tablet is curious.

The Linux Foundation on Wednesday kicked off its 20th anniversary celebrations with a video tribute to the story behind the open-source operating system and the promise of more commemorative goings-on for the rest of 2011.

Balance between Linux and OSes like Windows constantly evaluated, claims exec IBM may have made the open source Linux OS a staple of its software line, but the company is keeping its own DB2 database proprietary, a company official said on Wednesday afternoon.