Open Source for America

Andy Updegrove announced in a post on ConsortiumInfo.orgthe formation of a new group to advocate for the use of Open Source software in government. He also announced his appointment to the board of advisors.

A new web site has been created for the group, Open Source for America, or OSA.

The mission of OSA is to [...]

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Are Corporations Co-opting Open Source?

The recent announcements by Adobe and Microsoft of source code releases under FOSS licenses are attempts to co-opt free software.

Microsoft announced this week that they are releasing source code for Linux drivers that allow it to interact better with Windows, where Windows is the host OS and Linux is running as a guest OS. This [...]

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