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I regard Matt Asay as one of the most perceptive commentators on the world of free software and related areas. So I was rather disappointed...

When a big enough star dies, it generally implodes, and forms a voracious black hole capable of swallowing anything that comes too close. W...

There's some interesting turbulence in the blogosphere about the following call from Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) o...

Yesterday I popped into part of the London Open Source Forum. This was a laudable effort organised by Red Hat in conjunction with some of it...

Matt has some thoughts on blogs - including this one: my primary interest is in digging up what's not already "popular." Unfo...

As so often, I'm with Matt on this one: good as he was when the Fake Steve jobs, Dan Lyons is even better as himself. This is particul...

...well, at least as far as I'm concerned: Apple, continuing its reliance on open-source technologies, is using an open-source project c...

I was vaguely aware of the open source activity going on in Latin America, but I lacked the big picture. Matt Asay points to this feature ...

It's been a great year for free software, which just keeps on getting better and more widely adopted. And if you can't quite rememb...

News that IBM was buying Solid Information Technology, a company with close ties to MySQL, set off a distant bell ringing in my head in con...

As usual, Matt Asay is spot-on with his analysis of Fonality's acquisition of Insightful Solutions, especially here: With this Fonality...

"We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the ...

One of the things I really like about Matt Asay's blog is its total candour, which extends to handing out what most companies would rega...

There seems to be some magic about free software: whenever a certain class of (intelligent) lawyer comes into contact with it, it redeems th...

About 18 months ago, I wrote a post called " Open Source's Best-Kept Secret " about Eclipse, how wonderful it was, and yet how...

Once again, Matt gets it, and Tim doesn't: "I will predict that virtually every open source company (including Red Hat) will e...

As the post below indicates, one reason that open content strategies are working is that online advertising is increasingly profitable (just...

The enterprise content management company Alfesco has cropped up a few times on these pages. It's increasingly clear to me that it is ...

Has everyone gone Facebook mad? It certainly seems so, and apparently I'm not the only one to think so. But whatever your views of Fa...

Continuing his great series of interviews with key people in the world of business open source, Matt Asay (does this man never sleep?) talks...