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San Francisco-based computer manufacturer Purism has exceeded its target of raising US$1.5 million to build the world's first smartphone based on free software. It will be known as the Librem 5.

The Indian state of Kerala is saving three billion rupees (approximately $58.6 million) each year by using free and open source software for school education, a government official says.

The open source company Red Hat has reported earnings of US$615 million for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2017, an increase of 18% year-on-year.

The Linux Kernel Organisation, the non-profit that manages development of the kernel, is still reluctant to make any statement about a breach of its servers that took place more than five years ago, despite the fact that a man from South Florida has been charged with being responsible for the intrusion.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has released its next version, 10, with better control over data access and workflows.

Over the 25 years of its existence, the Linux kernel has grown from 10,000 lines of code to more than 21 million, according to a report released by the Linux Foundation.

Linux Australia has done a backflip on its stance over privacy advocate Jacob Appelbaum who was recently thrown out of several software groupings following numerous accusations of sexual harassment.

Open source veteran Dirk Hohndel has joined cloud infrastructure and business mobility vendor VMware as its vice-president and chief open source officer.

The Samba project, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, has released a client for ChromeOS.

There has been much relief among free and open source software developers following Google's win in its copyright battle with Oracle.

Red Hat's developer program is normally $99, but is now free - allowing you to register as a Red Hat developer at no cost.

Open source company Red Hat has recorded revenue of US$2.05 billion for its financial year which ended on February 29, marking another first for the company.

Is Microsoft planning another major "embrace, extend and extinguish" campaign? That is the question that arises after news emerged that it would be launching Linux-based tools based on Debian GNU/Linux for networking.

A little more than two years ago, the open source consulting company Collabora took over the job of commercialising LibreOffice, the free office suite that is produced by an army of developers.

The Software Freedom Conservancy, an organisation that helps promote, develop improve and defend free and open source software, has launched a fund-raiser because its corporate donations have begun to decrease.

Over the years, one thing that has been always guaranteed about the free software and open source software community is that periodically there will be some unholy row or the other, mostly over issues allegedly to do with sexism and inequality.

Stories about vulnerabilities in software depend on the Chicken Little factor to gain traction: society as we know it is going to be transformed by this flaw or that which will cause the sky to fall.

A little over four years since it began, the Ada Initiative, a project set up to encourage the participation of women in free and open source software and culture, has run out of puff and kicked the bucket.

After many years of struggling to stay afloat, the French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has gone into liquidation.