Sean Michael Kerner

Is SCO going bankrupt? Novell Monday  made that claim in a legal filing, asking for a partial summary judgment in its three-year-old battle with SCO over ownership of Unix copyrights. Novell asked the court in to provide the judgment because SCO is going bankrupt, and claimed that it is not to blame for SCO’s financial […]

Virtual world vendor Linden Labs is opening up its Second Life doors to the world of open source, but just a bit. Second Life, which enables users to participate in a virtual world through the use of avatars, is now providing a version of its viewer application under the GPL version 2 license. The viewer […]

Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6.0 Linux distribution has crossed the million user milestone. Is it enough for the community-driven Linux distribution to claim it’s the most popular Linux version? Let’s go to the stats. According to Fedora Project statistics, Fedora Core 6.0 has averaged 9.4 new installations every minute since the release of Red Hat’s […]

Research firm Gartner recently identified companies it believes are leaders and visionaries in the SSL-VPN marketplace. There are some vendors that you’d expect to see in the firm’s 3Q 2006 SSL VPN Magic Quadrant report, such as Juniper, Cisco and Aventail. But there is at least one that isn’t nearly as obvious. Microsoft is not […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Finally after much speculation, including some by yours truly, Mozilla has come clean and disclosed how much money it makes. Depending on how you slice the numbers, Mozilla, which offers its flagship browser for free, may well be making — wait for it — 29 cents per download. Allow me to explain. Mitchell […]

Two little words, one very big difference. Open source database vendor MySQL AB recently altered some of the wording of its license in order to let users know that it won’t automatically be licensed under the next version of the General Public License, or GPL  version 3, when that draft is finalized. The move signals […]

Though the New Years holiday was a long vacation for many, it was a long work weekend for those in Google’s security operations. A flaw was reported and fixed over the weekend, and there are allegations in the wild that a new crop of security issues may still exist. Heather Adkins, information security manager at […]

For years, the only way to get a free all-in-one Asterisk open source IP-PBX easily setup and managed was to go to a third-party distribution, such as Asterisk@home. It’s now time for Asterisk to make it easy on its own. Asterisk@home, which is now called Trixbox, and its domain no longer point to Trixbox. Instead […]

Firefox might be free, but that doesn’t mean Mozilla is in the poorhouse. Although some speculated on one, higher, figure, Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation, said that Mozilla made just under $53 million in 2005. The 2005 revenue figure is a dramatic jump from previous years for Mozilla. Baker noted that 2004 revenues […]

UPDATED: Linux isn’t the only open source operating system vying for the desktop; BSD in the form of the PC-BSD effort is too. It builds on the FreeBSD 6.1 base with an operating system that is more tailored for desktop users. Among the improvements in PC-BSD 1.3 is a new install wizard that allows for […]

The Xen open source virtualization project is out with the fourth point release this year of its namesake Xen hypervisor. Xen 3.0.4 may prove to be more visually appealing than its predecessors, thanks to the inclusion of graphical frame buffer support for para-virtualised guests. That support will further enable Xen users see their virtualized “guests” […]

Once again an e-mail worm with the title ‘Happy New Year’ is making the rounds. VeriSign’s iDefense security unit is reporting on the emergence of a 2007 variant Happy New Year worm. According to Ken Dunham, director of the Rapid Response Team at iDefense, the Happy New Year worm is being heavily seeded at a […]