Joomla! is a robust and highly customizable open source content management system. While at the recent Linuxworld in San Francisco, I spoke with Joomla! lead developers Johan Janssens and Louis Landry, who shed a bit of light on what Joomla! is all about and who uses it, ...

From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes part II of a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is the need for versioning Web applications now solved with an autoupdate? Will language inhibit where ...

Robert Scoble interviews IBM’s patent lawyer David Kappos about software patent reform and open source patents.

Also: Parts 1 and 2 of Aron Pruiett’s report on a panel discussion about the the future of the Internet in 20 years.

Coté talks again with William “whurley” Hurley about his thoughts on commercial open source. They discuss permissive licensing, choosing a license based on the desires for software and marketing thereof, avoiding using software licenses for political agendas (e.g., patents), and open source as a fad.

OpenMoko is an interesting project that is an open linux-based mobile communications platform. Primarily an open source operating system and applicatiion environment, when combined with a hardware device by FIC, it quickly feels like an open threat to the Apple iPhone. While at Linuxworld, I spoke ...

Motorola is aggressively adopting mobile linux as the key operating system for its cell phones. It is launching its first North American cell phone with Linux, the new Razr V8. Tom Foremski talks with Christy Wyatt, VP Ecosystem and Market Development at Motorola about the move to Linux and if ...

Tom Foremski speaks with Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource about the company’s packaged application suites. Spikesource takes dozens of open source components and combines them into sophisticated enterprise applications. Each suite is tested, and then retested when upgrades and patches become available, to make sure everything remains compatible.

Michael Cote talks with Willian “whurley” Hurley about the recently kicked off open sources programs at BMC Software. They discuss the selection of the BSD license, the role open source plays in IT management, and the ways whurley has gone about starting up the BMC open source ...

Dan Gisolfi (Executive IT Architect, Emerging Internet Technology with IBM Software Group) brings up the discussion about inhibitors in making money with MashUp during MashUp Camp IV. Does the acknowledgement of the web as a platform create the stability necessary for a financial cornerstone? Will the ...

Coté and James talk with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. They talk about SIGARHyperic’s, open source library for getting low-level system information, the perennial question of single- vs. multi-source open source development and what it means to be an open source company, comparisons to Wily as ...

Sun Microsystems has the world’s second-largest operating system development team, next to Microsoft. Sun’s Project Indiana is an open-source venture that will allow the community of Solaris users to influence and contribute to the future of the operating system. Ian Murdock, Chief OS Strategist, takes questions from journalists and explains ...

John Buckman is a serial entrepreneur, a musician, a marketeer and an open media evengelist, but he’s better known as the CEO of Magnatune, an indpendent, profitable online record label whose tagline closely matches that of Google’s: “We are not evil.”

Art Mann, of Silicon Mechanics, shows the insides of one of their rack-mount servers. Popular among the Open Source crowd, Silicon Mechanics runs a variety of Linux distributions in their long list of operating systems supported on their servers.

In this collection of highlights from the OSBC 2007 panel with the same name, Coté talks with Akash Garg (CTO, hi5 Networks, Dave Rosenberg (CEO and co-founder, MuleSource, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder (Chairman & CEO, about open source and Service Oriented Architectures. They ...

Kim Brand, CEO and founder of FileEngine, presents an overview of free Open Source Software at the Detroit ITEC conference. FileEngines use Novell’s SuSE Linux as the foundation of their operating system, and Brand’s service company supports Open Source in companies large and small, including schools, around the Indianapolis ...

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is one of IBM’s top strategists. He has been the key open-source evangelist within Big Blue, persuading the company to standardize on Linux as one of its core business strategies.

Linux and the entire open-source movement would have taken a lot longer to establish itself if it wasn’t for ...

When it comes to clothing and fashion, one doesn’t usually think of open source ideology and community collaboration. Not true with the founders of BurdaStyle, Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl. Nora and Benedikta have created a destination for sharing clothing patterns, step-by-step fashion making instructions, a passionate community ...

We’re constantly thinking about sustainability - in the environment we live in, as well as in the way we work and produce media. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization trying to change the way people use copyright and licensing for media and intellectual property. Instead of the traditional “all rights reserved” model for distributing works, Creative Commons continues to educate creators about the advantages that come with the “some rights reserved” model.

Transparency in government is a noble and ever evolving notion, one that the League of Technical Voters is bringing to the federal budget. Silona Bonewald, founder of the League, outlines her project to make the federal budget process more transparent and accountable. Through open source tools and crowdsourced ...

Renat Khasanshyn is CEO and co-founder of Apatar, a leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. Apatar brings data integration to the companies who previously found proprietary solutions expensive and difficult to implement. Apatar’s goal is to provide more then 100,000 users with its freely ...

James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the third part where we talk about avatar controls, poseballs, ...

James Governor talks with Sun’s Jeet Kaul on escaping the shackles of success. Avoiding suite dreams and stack-silos by fostering a participatory, inclusive, multi-language, open developer ecosystem at Sun. Java, open source, the Web, ruby, and container frameworks like OSGi.

James Burgett founded the Alameda County Computer Resource Center, essentially to make money off of equipment that other people thought was obsolete garbage. Thirteen years later he’s reformatted, refurbished and donated thousands of computers to folks who might not ever have the chance to own one. The ACCRC offers ...

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, and Mike Chambers, senior product manager, developer relations, walk to the whiteboard and give us a look at Adobe Flash’s architecture and give further details about what is being open sourced.

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, sit down with me for a little announcement: Adobe is taking Flex open source. Here Ely and David explain what moving Flex to Open Source means for developers.