Bob Young, former CEO of Red Hat, former publisher of Linux Journal, current head of lulu.com and a professional football team shares his thoughts and views of Linux.
Eric S. Raymond is author of one of the definitive books of the open source world “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”. In this interview Mr. Raymond talks about a number of the projects he is involved in.
Richard M. Stallman has been a pivotal, and sometimes controversial figure in the free software movement. Mr. Stallman’s accomplishments have included, but are not limited to, the creation of the GNU ...
I had the chance to interview Thomas Hansen, who recently announced the Gaia Programming Contest (€10,000 reward). Here are his enlightening answers! **TM: Hello Thomas. Please tell us something about ...
Dave Mohyla is the president and founder of dtidata.com, a hard drive recovery facility based in Tampa, Florida. **TM:** Where are you based? What does your company do? DTI Data recovery is based in S ...
I recently read an interview with Bill Hilf [1], thanks to a link from Groklaw. As I read it, I realised that it needed clarifications to anybody left wondering whether Mr. Hilf’s answers are indeed o ...
This is the first in what I hope will be a series of interviews with major GNU/Linux distribution lead developers. This interview is with Clement Lefebvre the lead developer of Linux Mint and he talks ...
When Monday’s anti-trust verdict was announced, the FSFE andSamba team talked to the gathered journalists and then sat downfor a group interview with Sean Daly. Thatinterview is on Groklaw now, and I ...
Centipede Networks has recently entered a partnership with BSD Perimeter to offer commercial support for two important free software projects, pfSense and m0n0wall. I had a chance to talk to Jeff Star ...
Joshua N Pritikin has recently started a peer-review service based on free software he developed. Being the editor of a magazine about free software, the idea immediately intrigued me. So, I asked Jos ...
I had the pleasure to work with Brian Jones, renowned free software technical writer, last year when I was working on TUX Magazine. We met again by accident recently and, while talking with him, I ask ...
As some of you know, I developed the Karma module for Drupal. You can see it in action right here, in Free Software Magazine, when you “vote” for (or against!) other user’s comments. While I know Drup ...
**JR: Hey Matthew, to start if you could introduce yourself and tell us a bit about OpenedHand.** MA: Hi. I’m a 32 year old father, husband, free software hacker and boss man of OpenedHand. I live in ...
I read a piece in which the author criticized the free software world for not being innovative enough; needless to say this angered me, so I decided to try and demonstrate that this is not the case. O ...
As you may have noiced, we have recently changed our hosting service. Changing provider can be difficult—I had to effectively install a brand new server, and move all the data and configuration across ...
I had a chance to talk to Steve Lake, at Raiden’s Realm. After a few words, I could tell that the project he was engaged in was very interesting, so I interviewed him... **TM: What is Raiden’s Realm?* ...
July 6 and 7, 2007. Italy discovers “The most advanced open-source database” with the first **PostgreSQL Day** ever to be held in Italy. On behalf of Free Software Magazine I have interviewed some of ...
The growing international population of free software activists are dedicating their personal time and energy on a collaborative project that aims to raise awareness for the social and technological v ...
In most industries, innovation comes from big companies that invest large amounts of money in equipment and research. The IT industry is different: the only real investment is a PC—and copious amounts ...
This article provides a real world perspective into why businesses move to and stick with free software. In this interview, Rob Fraser, from the premiere New Zealand open solutions company Egressive L ...