VA Linux

  • "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

  • 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

  • After the fall

    Executives at Women.com, VA Linux, Productopia and others forge a path into post-market correction Silicon Valley.
    By Janelle Brown, Damien Cave and Andrew Leonard April 28, 2000

  • Can't buy Linux love

    The stumbles of a Kleiner Perkins-funded Linux start-up prove that money isn't everything in the world of free software.
    By Andrew Leonard April 11, 2000

  • The shape of open source to come

    VA Linux purchases Andover.net, corporate parent to Slashdot. Will the "news for nerds" site maintain its editorial independence?
    By Andrew Leonard February 3, 2000

  • Can Linux billionaires carry the free-software torch?

    As dot-com mania sends shares in open-source companies soaring, the movement searches its soul.
    By Andrew Leonard December 23, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Would Jimmy Swaggart's God forbid sex? Plus: Merger rumors behind hot VA Linux IPO; reducing Russia to vodka-swilling stereotype.
    Letters to the Editor December 17, 1999

  • Microsoft, Mahir and money, money, money

    A software superpower is declared a monopoly, free software rakes in billions and money makes the world go round: The year in tech.
    By Janelle Brown, Mark Gimein, Andrew Leonard and Kaitlin Quistgaard December 15, 1999

  • Dissecting the VA Linux IPO

    Its stock soared 698 percent on opening day -- but does that mean investors really believe it's got a gilded future?
    By Mark Gimein December 10, 1999

  • The Red Hat diaries

    Are Linux coders and Linux companies on different paths? A slapdash new book and a recent flurry of corporate maneuvers suggest just that.
    By Andrew Leonard October 14, 1999

  • Red Hot

    The open-source movement basks in the glow of a successful IPO for Red Hat, the first Linux company to go public.
    By Andrew Leonard August 12, 1999

  • Is Red Hat becoming Linux's Microsoft?

    Hardly. But as the lovey-dovey Linux business matures, elbows are beginning to fly.
    By Andrew Leonard July 14, 1999
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