Sean Michael Kerner

Apparently having an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved license does matter. Companies that had once shunned the official open source label while still

There was a time when selling Linux (or even just writing about it) was an evangelical endeavor. Users needed to be sold on Linux's benefits and, more

SAN FRANCISCO -- At the heart of many open source debates is the issue of licensing. Is one license better than the other? Is a particular open license

SAN FRANCISCO -- Linux is a key part of the success mix for virtualization. That was the message of Mendel Rosenblum, chief scientist and cofounder of

SAN FRANCISCO -- According to Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian, there needs to be more application availability on Linux in order to accelerate

SAN FRANCISCO – Sometimes, the promises that vendors make on a show stage turn out to be empty. That's not the case with Dell. In a Tuesday

SAN FRANCISCO -- It may be thankless, boring work, but you have to get more involved in building the Linux Kernel. That was the underlying message to Sun

SAN FRANCISCO -- The first rule of Fight Club is to not speak about Fight Club. That is unless of course you're an open source vendor that, by definition,

>"Interoperability" is a key buzzword that means a lot of different things. Sometime it refers to interoperability in heterogeneous operating system

LinuxWorld San Francisco is the annual love fest for Linux aficionados. This year's iteration will attempt to share the love with virtualization and

LAS VEGAS -- When it comes to security, a lot of what matters might not be based on technology but rather what happens in people's heads. In a keynote

LAS VEGAS -- The big iPhone hack has now been publicly presented. Too bad for the bad guys that Apple already patched by the bug, or have they? Charlie