$100 for a laptop for a child in the poorest countries is still too much for Nicholas Negroponte. The founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, and founder and current chairman of the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) wants to give portable computers to all the children in developing countries.

The Philippines has the eighth largest development community for open source in the world. This was revealed by Sun Microsystems executives who were here recently to celebrate the third anniversary of the Java Education and Development Initiative (JEDI)--an open source skills training program initiated in the Philippines by Sun Microsystems together with several local universities and college instructors.

The lawyer for Samba and the Free Software Foundation Europe explains the behind-the-scenes work behind last month's antitrust decision against Microsoft.

It's old news by now. CompUSA is out of bid'ness. While there are a number of reasons for this, one of them should be obvious. They stubbornly held onto their loyalty to Microsoft.

With the problems of Vista, the end of the availability of XP, and the lack of Apple to see the light and open up OS X to non-Apple hardware, much is expected of the next release of the most popular consumer Linux distribution.

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How do two former Microsoft employees end up heading an open source company? In the case of Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjorg of MindTouch, the decision was based on the wish for independence and to work more closely with customers, according to Fulkerson. The two partners suffered some initial criticism because of their past employment, but have largely survived it by learning how to interact with the free software community.

When I started my tenure as marketing lead for the Haiku project in 2006, my highest priority was to renovate the project's Web site. Haiku had been using a custom-coded site which was showing its shortcomings as the project and the community grew in size.