Why binary kernel drives are a broken idea technically.
Nice overview of the contributor agreement/copyright assignment discussion.
"Trying to shift the burden of proof back onto themselves, I asked why they don't contribute to the open-source projects from which they derive so much value. Many indicated that it's too hard to contribute back to open-source projects due to internal legal issues and the high bar to knowing how to contribute. They suggested that they would instead prefer to pay the open-source companies to do that work for them."
Interesting exploration of dual licensing of free software and their effects.
Interesting opinion article in favor of the LGPL for QT.
Take Blackduck's results with a giant fist full of salt, but do look at these trends.
Interesting blog post about the difficulty of chasing up old copyright licenses.
This is a well thought out position on a very complicated question. I've talked to RMS about this before so I basically understood his position but it's very helpful to walk through the logic here. I think I mostly agree with him.
Weird. In a good way! The NY Times and John Markoff seems to have made an about-face in their representation of free software. Awesome
