Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior VP of technology and manufacturing, pledged Wednesday (Aug. 5) not to use his company's extensive patent portfolio against Linux, a line that drew applause from attendees ...

The insertion of a backdoor into code used by most Linux distributions was discovered and fixed ‘before it posed a significant risk to the broader Linux community,’ says Red Hat’s Vincent Danen. The ...

Ransom Love, the former chief executive of Linux archenemy SCO Group, jumps back into the Linux business by joining the board of a start-up called Progeny. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

One of the paradoxes of the industry is that while IBM is an ardent supporter of Linux as an open-source operating system, it has a more proprietary approach to the middleware given its history with ...