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By Janko Roettgers
January 22, 2009
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Jimmy Wales invests in a "distributed" effort to index the Web, part of his plan to build an open alternative to Google.
By Farhad Manjoo
July 27, 2007
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With its brand-new, freely downloadable BuzzMonitor "super-aggregator," the bruised bank hitches a ride on the Web 2.0 bandwagon.
By Andrew Leonard
June 18, 2007
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Microsoft and Novell make a deal to support free software?
By Andrew Leonard
November 2, 2006
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Phytoplanktonic petroleum and the reincarnation of Tenali Ramakrishna.
By Andrew Leonard
August 23, 2006
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Down with self-referential navel gazing! Or, Wikipedia and me, Part 2. And did I mention me?
August 11, 2006
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To combat AIDS, Microsoft's founder learns from Linux.
By Andrew Leonard
July 20, 2006
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Mozilla's browser is taking market share away from Microsoft. Sometimes, slow and steady really does win the race.
By Sam Williams
November 16, 2004
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Electoral-vote.com's anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems.
By Andrew Leonard
November 1, 2004
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For one Silicon Valley company, hiring Indian programmers wasn't about greed, it was about survival. A special report from Chennai, globalization's ground zero.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 1, 2004
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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
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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
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Booms come and busts go, but open-source developers keep improving the alternatives to Microsoft's "standards."
By Andrew Leonard
November 15, 2002
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Netscape won't dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows.
By Farhad Manjoo
September 10, 2002
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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
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The file-trading network's developers are discovering that even their wide-open, free-for-all technology might need a little policing.
By Farhad Manjoo
August 8, 2002
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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
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The only way to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail may be to harness a million eyeballs and an army of open-source hackers.
By Andrew Leonard
June 24, 2002
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Backers of a next-generation multimedia compression technology want to charge a controversial fee -- but instead their plan is fanning interest in free, open-source alternatives.
By Damien Cave
March 6, 2002
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The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned.
By Annalee Newitz
February 26, 2002
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Hackers love their TiVos, and the company is fond of its hackers. But as in any relationship, sometimes one party goes a bit too far.
By Damien Cave
June 20, 2001
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Hackers scorn the theory that the economic downturn could hurt open-source software.
By Andrew Leonard
May 18, 2001
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Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers?
By Damien Cave
March 21, 2001
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At VA Linux's SourceForge, thousands of programmers are collaborating for both love and money.
By Ed Frauenheim
March 6, 2001
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A clunky computer-age thriller in which geeky programmers sell out to code zillionaires -- any resemblances to the living or dead are purely coincidental.
By Stephanie Zacharek
January 12, 2001