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Meet Zonbu, the amazing $99 green PC Meet Zonbu, the amazing $99 green PC

This tiny machine is stylish, silent, cheap and innovative. If engineers work out the kinks, it could be revolutionary.
By Farhad Manjoo Aug 2, 2007

  • A Brazilian Linux let-down

    The government subsidizes free software. But does anyone use it?
    By Andrew Leonard August 27, 2008

  • Linux PCs flop on Wal-Mart shelves

    The store won't restock the $200 computers.
    By Farhad Manjoo March 11, 2008

  • Making the world safe for free software

    A litigious blitzkrieg by the anti-Linux crusader the SCO Group has been enraging open-source developers for months. But SCO's attack has ignited its own counterreaction.
    By Farhad Manjoo April 15, 2004

  • SCO, open source and the world

    While a small Utah company launches a frontal assault on free software, the rest of the globe is saying: Gimme some of that!
    By Sam Williams December 22, 2003

  • Who owns Linux? Not SCO

    A federal judge issues a ruling that seems to shut down a software company's multibillion-dollar claim to own the open-source operating system.
    By Farhad Manjoo August 13, 2007

  • How Microsoft crushed Linux's Chinese rebellion

    The story starts with a Fortune magazine article, and ends in the second century B.C.
    By Andrew Leonard July 10, 2007

  • Nixon goes to China, the Linux version

    Microsoft and Novell make a deal to support free software?
    By Andrew Leonard November 2, 2006

  • Fear, uncertainty and Linux

    SCO claims IBM and Linux have ripped off its old program code. Linux advocates say that's bunk. Nothing will become clear until SCO shows its hand in court.
    By Farhad Manjoo August 18, 2003

  • Lawyers against Linux

    A software company launches a billion-dollar suit against the open-source operating system's biggest backer, IBM -- and only succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 3, 2003

  • The free-software tango

    In Argentina, a miserable economy is encouraging computer users to look for low-cost, nonproprietary solutions. Bill Gates is paying attention.
    By Matt Dorn May 7, 2003

  • Linux does Windows

    Desktop open-source operating systems are ready for prime time and available from Wal-Mart. But if they look and act just the same as software from Redmond, what's the point?
    By Farhad Manjoo March 3, 2003

  • Flag of inconvenience

    Fearing the Taiwanese flag would irk China, Red Hat yanked it from its version of Linux -- and started an international geek uproar.
    By Andrew Leonard October 31, 2002

  • Profits from piracy

    Evidence is mounting that cracking down on software copyright infringement may not be good for business. Case study: Microsoft in China.
    By Sam Williams September 26, 2002

  • Buy Linux. It's the law

    A San Diego lawyer says California's state government should be forced to dump Microsoft in favor of open-source alternatives. But can free software get into politics without getting dirty?
    By Farhad Manjoo August 27, 2002

  • "Same job. Different cubicle"

    With the promise of stock riches now a distant dream, VA Linux's former programmers keep the open-source faith.
    By Sam Williams July 31, 2002

  • Code free or die

    A new biography of Richard Stallman looks at how the free software mastermind got to be so single-mindedly stubborn.
    By Andrew Leonard April 2, 2002

  • Ten years as a willing Microsoftie

    A programmer's account of life at the evil empire is surprisingly un-Borg-like.
    By Andrew Leonard February 8, 2002

  • Linux goes to the movies

    Who says free software is passé? Hollywood's special-effects industry can't get enough of the operating system built by hackers, for hackers.
    By Michael J. Hammel November 1, 2001

  • Microsoft unbound

    No longer cowed by the feds, the colossus of Redmond returns to business as usual.
    By Andrew Leonard June 12, 2001

  • Microsoft: Free-software licenses are the devil's work!

    Bill Gates and Co. say open-source software harms technological innovation -- but the attack from Redmond could easily backfire.
    By Andrew Leonard May 3, 2001

  • A boy and his computer

    Linus Torvalds' autobiography reveals a geek's geek who is changing the world, just for the heck of it.
    By Andrew Leonard April 24, 2001

  • Crafting the free-software future

    At VA Linux's SourceForge, thousands of programmers are collaborating for both love and money.
    By Ed Frauenheim March 6, 2001

  • Life, liberty and the pursuit of free software

    Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the company completely lost its mind?
    By Andrew Leonard February 15, 2001

  • Hunting the wild hacker

    Work should be play, says a new book that sets forth the emerging ethical code of free-software programmers.
    By Andrew Leonard February 5, 2001
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