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Thirty-Three Years of Debian
Debian turns 33 this August. A look at why the free, stable, community-governed OS still anchors the Linux world — and how to give back on Debian Day.
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Is Red Hat the New SCO?
SCO tried to make money from Linux by claiming to own part of it, and sued until it went bankrupt. Red Hat hasn't sued anyone. But its move to put RHEL's source behind a subscription agreement uses contracts to restrict…
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Understanding Open Source Licensing
Open source licenses are short, readable and enforceable, and companies still get them wrong. What the main licenses actually require, what triggers those requirements, and the court cases that proved the GPL has teeth…
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OPINION: A Betrayal of the Open Source Spirit
Red Hat built a billion-dollar business on other people's open source and on a promise that anyone could rebuild what it sold. Then it ended CentOS and put RHEL's source behind a subscription agreement. Two weeks after…
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How Apple Leveraged Open Source Technology to Build macOS
Underneath the Mac is a Unix built from Mach, BSD and decades of open source, and Apple has given some of it back and walked away from some of it. How macOS got its foundations, what Apple contributed, and why the bash…
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Open Source: Free as in Freedom
Open source was never about the price. It's a short list of rights, and this year a growing number of companies want the reputation without granting them. What the freedoms actually are, how free software and open…
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The Free Software Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation
One fights for your right to read and change the software you run. The other fights for your rights online, in court. They get mentioned together and confused for each other. Where each came from, what each actually…