Open Source

  • Miro 2.0 Coming Soon, Beta Preview Available Now

    By Janko Roettgers January 22, 2009

  • Wikipedia's founder builds an open-source search engine

    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

  • The World Bank goes open-source

    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

  • Nixon goes to China, the Linux version

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

  • Algae, open source and India

    Phytoplanktonic petroleum and the reincarnation of Tenali Ramakrishna.
    By Andrew Leonard August 23, 2006

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Down with self-referential navel gazing! Or, Wikipedia and me, Part 2. And did I mention me?
    August 11, 2006

  • Bill Gates goes open source

    To combat AIDS, Microsoft's founder learns from Linux.
    By Andrew Leonard July 20, 2006

  • Firefox -- the flag bearer of free software

    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

  • Electoral geek supreme

    Electoral-vote.com's anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems.
    By Andrew Leonard November 1, 2004

  • How India is saving capitalism

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • AbiWord up

    Booms come and busts go, but open-source developers keep improving the alternatives to Microsoft's "standards."
    By Andrew Leonard November 15, 2002

  • Mozilla rising

    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

  • 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

  • Gnutella bandwidth bandits

    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

  • "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

  • Spam vs. spam

    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

  • Stop. Pay toll. Download.

    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

  • Genome liberation

    The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned.
    By Annalee Newitz February 26, 2002

  • End of an affair?

    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

  • No recession for free software

    Hackers scorn the theory that the economic downturn could hurt open-source software.
    By Andrew Leonard May 18, 2001

  • Patents are your friends

    Can open-source programmers use intellectual property laws to protect themselves from corporate software snatchers?
    By Damien Cave March 21, 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

  • "AntiTrust"

    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
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