COMMENTARY--What's going on? Linux hackers suddenly find they are in the Matrix, their brains feeding robotic corporations, and previously successful organizations are in trouble. Could all this be ...

First we invented a world where everyone could be free. Then we helped build feudal castles on it, where everyone now lives. Now it's time to blow up those castles by giving everybody much better ways ...

I started working full-time for Linux Journal in 1999, when we were headquartered in the Ballard District of Seattle—a place I still miss visiting. One day, we took a break and headed over to a local ...