Linux Today - IT Management

Effective project management relies as much on perception as reality.

Ars: As LibreOffice soars, OpenOffice management considers retiring the project.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI), working with the Schodack Central School District in upstate New York, developed the FLOSS Desktops For Kids Incubator Project.

Take action by signing the pledge and urge universities not to sell patents to patent trolls.

techrights: The growing danger of a Linux Foundation which is funded not just by proprietary software giants but also direct opposition of Linux and serial violators of the licence of GNU (GPL)

 FOSSforce: Did you know that MS Word on Linux using Wine works better than Word on Windows?

 NetworkWorld: Here's a map of the status of open-source laws around the world

Purism announces the creation of its Advisory Board, comprised of acclaimed experts from the Free Software community

Think about the kind of documentation you like to read, and write that. If people don't like it, you can be sure they'll let you know.

ZDnet: Linus Torvalds created Linux, but many others, both developers and executives, helped make it the world's most successful operating system.

TheNewStack: None of the technologists with these companies want to fork but they have also voiced concern over the Docker codebase’s lack of stability

ZDnet: Linux's founder appreciates what the GNU General Public License has given Linux, but he doesn't appreciate how some open-source lawyers are trying to enforce it in court.

When Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst spoke at LinuxCon last week, he hardly mentioned RHEL or the company's stack.

Cloud considerations when compliance and regulatory oversight are part of your business

Google is a leading contributor to open source today, but the search giant doesn't like all open source licenses.

Why CIOs need to be chief customer experience officers when supporting online experiences.

Wim Coekaerts, corporate VP of Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Group, came to LinuxCon preaching enable, integrate, release, and contribute instead of embrace, extend, and extinguish.

What are snaps and why you should use them?

techrights: Motorola and Lenovo surrender to Microsoft's patent demands

ZDnet: On the back of some significant improvements in the last year and a half, Linux is now the model for software development.

VIDEO: Wim Coekaerts, corporate vice president of enterprise open source at Microsoft, details how open source is the new normal in Redmond.

Out of the many reasons for supporting student participation in open source, here are five of the most compelling reasons.

eWEEK: At LinuxCon, keynoters look back at 25 years of Linux, why the future is still bright, and why technology can have tangible benefits on the human condition.

Judy Chichoya is a Kenyan medical doctor specializing in radiology and an experienced programmer who's accelerating the growth of OpenMRS.

eWEEK: In the last decade, the mission of the foundation has expanded beyond the confines of the Linux kernel.

 enterprisersproject: Why taking more risks can pay off in a big way.

KDE and Canonical's Ubuntu have collaborated for years.

The challenges of hiring skilled employees in today's world, and how IT can help.

EnterprisersProject: Three tips for addressing global talent gaps.

The Xen Project community had such a decision to make in the wake of the XSA-7 security issue about the project's security policy.

Wearables have their advantages, though not always the ones you expect.

 For decades Microsoft was the 'enemy' of Linux and even today it still has intellectual property claims against open-source.

Richard Stallman isn't the only one that uses the term copyleft.

Remember BeOS?

The U.S. government's new Federal Source Code policy is a step in the right direction

A decision in the GPL enforcement case in Germany between Christoph Hellwig (supported by the Software Freedom Conservancy) and VMware recently became public.

 FOSSforce: UNC's professor Paul Jones explains that the concept of "free and open source" was a part of our culture long before there were computers

A successful open source project is about more than good code.

If you have the right open source skills, finding a job should be no obstacle.