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A change in the Linux Foundation's by-laws has prompted questions about its attitudes toward VMware and open source community organizations.

Government organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere should prefer open source software and open standards over proprietary applications like Adobe Acrobat Reader.

GitLab, one of numerous "Git-as-a-Service" sites that host managed Git repositories for open source code, has unveiled new features, including Elasticsearch support.

The most recent major security vulnerability in the Linux kernel's open source code has triggered more panic than it merits.

Verizon has joined ONOS, an open source Linux Foundation collaborative project for building an SDN-based networking platform for telecommunications service providers.

Google Cloud Dataflow seeks to become an Apache Incubator project, which will help keep the open source data analytics platform open and available for integrators. Google is open-sourcing more code by contributing Cloud Dataflow to the Apache Software Foundation. The move, a first for Google, opens new cloud-based data analytics options and integration opportunities for big data companies.

Mirantis's OpenStack training courses surged in popularity in 2015, a likely sign of increasing adoption of the open source cloud computing platform.

Survey data from SUSE shows that companies want to build OpenStack private clouds but are concerned about lack of skills and vendor neutrality.

The Linux Foundation and Goodwill have partnered to bring free training courses in Linux and open source software administration to an adult public charter school in Texas.

AT&T will use Canonical's Ubuntu Linux open source operating system in its next-generation network, cloud and enterprise platforms.

Dronecode, the open source software project for drones and UAVs, has received new financial backing and established technical working groups for drone software development.

Open source software has made huge strides in a short time. But do platforms like the cloud, IoT and Android help or hinder the mission of free and open source code?

Panasonic will use Mozilla's open source, Linux-based Firefox OS on its DX900 smart TV, showing that Firefox OS remains relevant as IoT grows.

AllSeen Alliance Announces New Open Source IoT Certified Devices. The AllSeen Alliance announced at CES 2016 that new IoT devices have received certification for the AllJoyn open source connectivity framework for open IoT.

Open source programmers have found a way to install Linux on Sony's PlayStation 4 in order to customize a hardware platform that is otherwise closed.

WorkMail, the cloud-based email and calendar platform that constitutes Amazon's answer to Microsoft Exchange and Google Apps, has entered general availability, with new features to boot. Amazon first announced WorkMail in January 2015. It pitched the offering as an easy way to set up email and calendaring services, with a focus on security.

A poll of open source users reveals the types of operating systems and devices they use. GNU/Linux-based laptops and PCs top the list; Android and iOS are much less popular.

Ian Murdock, a free software and open source programmer who founded Debian GNU/Linux at a time before the Free Software Foundation supported Linux, has died.

Google's next Android mobile operating system, Android N, will use OpenJDK, the open source Java implementation, rather than Oracle's proprietary Java environment.

The Linux Foundation's "World without Linux" series about the significance of open source software has concluded with a video clip featuring Linus Torvalds in cartoon form.