One look at Matthew Garrett and you start wondering: is this the guy who caused such a big furore in the FOSS community in September 2006 when he made plain his reasons for leaving the Debian GNU/Linux project after four years as a developer?

One of the most surprising things about Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is that if successful it will make Microsoft one of the two or three largest users of open source software in the world. Google is certainly the largest. The National Security Agency may or may not be second (only the spooks know for sure), but if it is then by my estimate that would make Yahoo the third.

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A classic Hollywood movie scene is the panoramic shot of a lone horseback rider, out on the grassy rolling plain. The horse stops, fidgeting. At first, all the horseman can hear is the sound of the gentle breeze under a stark blue sky. Then, a sub-aural rumble fills the air. Growing louder, the horseman stands up in the saddle and squints in the direction of the sound. We, in the audience, look, too — and leap out of our skins when dozens of bad guys come roaring over the nearest hillock, right at our hero.

Like many VoIP telephony companies, Junction Networks uses Asterisk and other open source software to provide its customers with highly customizable VoIP service. Junction has been able to migrate its business model from a conference bridge service provider to a full-fledged telephone services company largely because of the flexibility and lower capital requirements of open source. "We're a completely bootstrapped company," says Mike Oeth, founder and CEO. "We were never locked into a business plan that was sold to investors." He says Junction is successful because it has been able to follow its customers' desires with open source.

Proprietary Open Source Proprietary Open Source Proprietary Open Source Proprietary Open Source...there, Marc said it, so I can also ;-)

Rising demand for IT from government agencies in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu was putting pressure on the state's technology budget. The solution? An enterprisewide shift to Linux from the data center to the desktop.

Contrary to what you may have heard, free and open source software (FOSS) is not anti-business. But neither is it pro-business. More accurately, FOSS is focused on concerns outside of traditional business, such as user freedom and code quality. For this reason, making the two work together successfully requires special efforts and resources, as well as careful study of the various options.