One of the most controversial devices in recent times have been Voting Machines.  They run open source software and when they are compromised, change history.  The Election Technology Council (ETC), a group of mostly voting machine vendors, recently released a paper that tries to argue that releasing the (open) source code would only aid the [...]

Today Linux turns 15 years old! It all started with Linus Torvalds becoming upset that he could not access his universities Unix server they way that he wanted to.  He decided to write his own little bit of code that then became the basis for all that we know as Linux. The whole project ended [...]

Cuba announced this week it is launching their own version of Linux to replace Microsoft Windows on the communist island. Apparently Windows is too “Capitalista” for them. More than likely it is getting to be too difficult for them to try and override the piracy protection.

Not everyone is jumping on the enterprise Windows 7 bandwagon. Earlier this month Vietnam announced that all of their governmental computers will be loaded with open source software.