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The Linux Distillery: "The very heart of the Linux operating system is the kernel, the piece of software which makes programs run and work with hardware.

It's possibly the largest and most geographical spread open source project in the world. With software projects failing daily how can such a task actually work?"

The very heart of the Linux operating system is the kernel, the piece of software which makes programs run and work with hardware.

It's possibly the largest and most geographical spread open source project in the world. With software projects failing daily how can such a task actually work?

A key challenge faced by any open source project is getting mindshare. It’s a truism that if decision makers don’t know about a product, they won’t consider it.

If they don’t consider it, they’ll select other approaches. There are too many people shouting out their own Xen messages.

Canonical (the company behind arguably the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu) have stopped an open-source project on grounds of Trademark violations, despite the name not conflicting with their Trademark Policy.

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This is the story of the OLPC project since it was announced in January of 2005. Intel and Microsoft are monopolies that used brute force to delay the OLPC non-profit open-source project from starting the cheap laptop revolution, taking away the profit margins from a multi-hundred-billion dollar laptop and PC industry.

TechWorld has a lengthy interview with Guido van Rossum.

"For a few years there were definitely way too many web frameworks. While new web frameworks still occasionally crop up, the bar has been set much higher now, and many of the lesser-known frameworks are disappearing.

There's also the merger between TurboGears and Pylons.

Windows developers can now port Visual Basic applications to Linux without modifying their code , using an open source project backed by Novell.

Datamation: "For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor...Has Redmond given up the fight?

Or is this just their latest strategy?"

Bruce Perens looks at Microsoft's sponsorship of Apache.

"For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor, promising to put $100,000 per year into a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in the market.

Microsoft also made some of their patents available for use in GPL software like Linux without a royalty.