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Good news: Irving Wladawsky-Berger , the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one o...

Here's a nice reminder that open source - in the form of Apache - has been head of the field for more than 12 years, despite what cert...

I was lucky enough to interview Irving Wladawsky-Berger for the Guardian shortly before he retired from IBM. One of the most intriguing h...

I interviewed Irving Wladawsky-Berger twice: once for Rebel Code , soon after IBM announced its support for GNU/Linux - arguably one of the ...

It's been an open secret that IBM was working on its own virtual world platform, but details are now beginning to emerge : IBM said its...

I won't add to all the other prognostications for this year - not least because some people have already done it so well : let me start ...

So far, the best answer to How can open source companies make money? seems to be that of providing services - typically training, support a...

This isn't particularly new, but I've only just caught up with it (on Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog ). It's " Democra...

Patents are boring - but important. They are the chokepoint for much intellectual activity - especially the kind discussed in these pages -...