Open Source Stories for 2010

What Can a Lawyer Do For Open Source? 162
Open Source After 12 Years 174
Google Pushes Openness Over Rooting 196
De Raadt Doubts Alleged Backdoors Made It Into OpenBSD 136
NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source 286
Google Donates Windowbuilder, Codepro To Eclipse 150
Best Open Source Genealogy Software? 292
Australian Stats Agency Goes Open Source 51
Debian 6.0 To Feature a Completely Free Kernel 283
Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux 481
Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source 408
Why We Shouldn't Begrudge Commercial Open Source Companies 172
Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel 191
Microsoft Invests In Open Source Software Company 99
ProFTPD.org Compromised, Backdoor Distributed 152
Symbian Foundation Sites To Close 78
Stephen Fry and DVD Jon Back USB Sniffer Project 126
Tandberg Attempts To Patent Open Source Code 187
AMD Releases Open Source Fusion Driver 126
Arduino-Based, High Powered LED Lighting Over Wi-Fi 114
Microsoft Finally Certifies an Open Source Web App 87
AMD Joins Intel's MeeGo OS Effort 117
Exciting Kinect Stuff Already Coming Out 200
Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? 510
Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties 96
Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won 262
Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java 428
LimeWire Lives Again 278
Telstra Violating the GPL? 197
Strong Contender Already For Adafruit's Kinect Challenge 86
Gosu Programming Language Released To Public 330
Introducing Students To the World of Open Source 182
$2,000 Bounty For Open Source Xbox Kinect Drivers 274
Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland 640
Microsoft Open Sources F# 212
China Mobile Joins the Linux Foundation 56
Serious Security Bugs Found In Android Kernel 230
Fedora 14 Released and Reviewed — Advanced, and Not For Wimps 200
Google Broadens Bug Bounties To Include Web App Security 50
33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org 500
VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement 717
Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's 352
Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice 83
Linux 2.6.36 Released 238
US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again. 403
Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android 864
Desktop Linux Is Dead 1348
Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice 421
Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards 156
Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave 589
Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? 369
Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender 480
Grad Student Looking To Contribute To Open Source 283
CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music On Podcasts 148
Software Evolution Storylines, Inspired By XKCD 136
G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS 406
Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best 455
HDCP Encryption/Decryption Code Released 225
OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice 648
Security Lessons Learned From the Diaspora Launch 338
Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing' 309
UK Goverment IT Chief Backs Open Source Suppliers 72
Codec2 — an Open Source, Low-Bandwidth Voice Codec 179
Return To Castle Wolfenstein Source Code Released 92
Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration 442
Security Concerns Paramount After Early Reviews of Diaspora Code 206
Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' 340
Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed 306
Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? 405
Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? 322
Oracle, NetApp Drop ZFS Patent Suit 66
Broadcom Releases Source Code For Drivers 350
Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad 232
Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War 322
Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD 103
Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released 291
Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released 226
Android Fork Brings Froyo To 12 Smartphones 193
Why Microsoft Is Being Nicer To Open Source 231
Burning Man Goes Open Source For Cell Phones 152
Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera 152
Can an Open Source Map Project Make Money? 304
Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists 282
Glibc Is Finally Free Software 337
Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' 464
Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web 125
Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change 179
Open-Source 2D, 3D Drivers For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series 245
Linux X.org Critical Security Flaw Silently Patched 259
F1 Simulators Revealed 72
World's First Voice Call From a Free GSM Stack 83
FOSS RTS Game Glest Gets Revival — Enter Mega-Glest 103
Linux Foundation Makes Open Source Boring 87
CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead 115
A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 234
Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris 161
Sun Founders' Push For Open Source Education 169
Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released 159
First GNOME Census Results 175
Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth 655
Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? 293
If Oracle Bought Every Open Source Company 237
Free Software, a Matter of Life and Death 197
FFmpeg Announces High-Performance VP8 Decoder 80
Open Source Participation Gains Support In China 35
Alien Swarm Can Be Played As a Terrifying FPS 157
SFLC Wants To Avoid Death by Code 247
Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs 133
Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released 172
Open Source Transcription Software? 221
Rackspace Releases Cloud Stack As Open Source 65
Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment 152
OAuth, OpenID Password Crack Could Affect Millions 304
Open Source Hardware Definition Hits 0.3 93
OpenSolaris Governing Board Closing Shop? 234
SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source? 357
NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS 231
Skype Encryption (Partly) Revealed 151
Apple Implements the CalDAV Standard For MobileMe 152
Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? 151
Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day 460
Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles 276
Porting Aquaria To the PSP 25
Qualcomm Makes Open-Source 3D Snapdragon Driver 84
Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros 221
Security For Open Source Web Projects? 105
Open Source Geographic Tracking? 84
Finance, Scientific Users Get ActivePython Updates 131
Nokia Trades Symbian For MeeGo In N-Series Smartphones 184
Skype Releases Open SDK 108
Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? 105
Is the CodePlex Foundation Truly Independent Now? 123
VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision 315
TACO Extension for Firefox Forked After Proprietary Update 139
Bluecherry Releases GPL'd MPEG-4 Driver 45
MySQL Outpacing Oracle In Wake of Acquisition 157
Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? 487
Aquaria Goes Open Source 58
WebM Licensing Problems Resolved 89
New Handheld Computer Is 100% Open Source 195
Free Software Wins Court Battle in Quebec 172
Android Compatibility and Fragmentation 211
Where Do You Go When Google Locks You Out? 332
Physics Platformer Gish Goes Open Source 58
Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question 185
Glaxo Open Sources Malaria Drug Search Data 80
FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go 482
Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity 173
Why We Still Need OSI 108
Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? 374
First Pandora Console Reaches Customer 271
The Economist Calls For "Open Source" Biology 80
PETA Creates New Animal-Friendly Software License 356
Would You Die To Respect a Software License? 233
Linux 2.6.34 Released 268
Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source 99
Trailer For Blender Open Movie Sintel Ready 182
Penumbra: Overture Goes Open Source 74
Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million 238
Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? 504
13 Open Source Hardware Companies Make $1+ Million 149
A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook 363
Law Professors Developing Patent License For FOSS 41
MMORPG Ryzom Released Under AGPL 117
Metasploit As Case Study In Selling a FOSS Project 50
Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source" 246
The Shortcomings of Google's Open Handset Alliance 208
Open Source Developer Knighted 101
Open Source vs. Wall Street Bonuses 172
What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser? 296
Vatican Chooses Open FITS Image Format 223
Why Making Money From Free Software Matters 224
X264 Project Announces Blu-ray Encoding Support 139
Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? 344
WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code 161
Why Linux Is Not Attracting Young Developers 742
Open Community vs. Open Code 141
Checking For GPL Compliance, When the Code Is Embedded 75
Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable 393
Lightworks Video Editor To Go Open Source 205
Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen 214
Ubuntu on a Dime 531
BlackBerry Maker To Buy QNX For RTOS & Dev. Suite 51
Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment 293
IBM Breaks Open Source Patent Pledge 359
OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released 107
Berkeley Gets Willow Garage Robot To Fold Towels 99
Tremulous Switching To Xbox Live, Exclusively 43
Gnome 2.30 Released 138
OpenNMS Celebrates 10 Years 37
Open Source, Open Standards Under Attack In Europe 164
Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver 412
Open Source Alternative To Google Earth? 190
Tridgell Recommends Reading Software Patents 173
Open Source Is Not a Democracy 641
ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10 172
Firmware Hack Allows Video Analysis On a Canon Camera 115
Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino 94
What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? 344
Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL 65
OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up 191
Licensing an Abandonware Game? 148
Drizzle's Future Moving To Rackspace? 41
Open Data Needs Open Source Tools 62
A Public Funded "Microsoft Shop?" 490
Make Your Own Open Source Retro Arcade-Style Clock 77
Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! 650
Delicious Details of Open Source Court Victory 202
Myst Online: Uru Live Returns As Free-To-Play 58
Ask Matt Asay About Ubuntu and Canonical 310
Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law 596
Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source 189
Open Source Software Meets Do-It-Yourself Biology 113
NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate 305
Nmap 5.20 Released 36
Willow Garage To Give Away 10 Open Source Robots 44