An open source living
Open source and free software aren't synonyms.Everyone needs to make a living, and there are many people in the open source community who make it by selling their wares.
Linux and Open Source
The latest news and views on all things Linux and open source by seasoned Unix and Linux user Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system. SJVN covers networking, Linux, open source, and operating systems.
Paula Rooney
Paula Rooney is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for more than two decades.
Latest Posts
Achilles Heel
Documentation, I thought, is the Achilles Heel for open source.It's baked into the process.
Sam's Red Hat
I wrote the other day about IBM chairman Sam Palmisano, speculating over what he might next do with Linux.Well, if one of you has Photoshop, maybe you could add a nice red Santa hat to that picture and send it back to me.
Is there a Linux skills shortage? Not from where I'm sitting.
Not to beat the topic to death, but I wanted to chime in on this story about a perceived Linux skills shortage. Two points I'd like to make.
Big Blue vs. Big Green
He's not much in a swimsuit.He is not even what I like to call a "truly handsome man" (look at all that head on top of his head -- yech!
What Linux skills shortage
For some reason stories like this burn me up. It's a survey from Forrester alleging that there's a big Linux skills shortage, which may keep companies from adopting it.
Palm does Linux
We were talking yesterday about second-rate software being ported to Linux.Today we hear PalmSource (which makesthe Palm OS) has spent $21 million in stock to buy a Chinese Linux developer(about 10% of the company), and has plans for a Linux port.
Palm embraces Linux
Chalk up another one for Linux. PalmSource has announced that it will be using Linux in the near future, and "extending" PalmOS to run on top of Linux as an application layer rather than as an OS in its own right.
Open source draws losing hands
Every time I turn around these days it seems that some other product that can't make it in the proprietary world is going open source.That's the way of the world.