An open-source programmer stopped by the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, this week to tell Motorola and 12 other companies he believes they're using Linux in violation of the license that ...

Linux programmer wins legal victory German court supports effort to enforce the GPL, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms.

A Linux programmer has reported a legal victory in Germany in enforcing the General Public License, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms. A Munich district ...

Andrew Morton, a key deputy to Linux leader Linus Torvalds, has taken a job at search engine powerhouse Google, a major user of Linux and other open-source software.

IBM has gathered all these metrics based on registrations for its Linux Speed-start program, said Adam Jollans, Linux strategy manager for the IBM Software Group. When developers register a Linux ...