The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, and SourceForge, a leader in community-driven media and e-commerce, (NASDAQ: LNUX) today announced that the Linux Foundation will be the new host for Linux.com, taking over the editorial …

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The Linux Foundation has published the results of a study that the organization conducted in order to compute the approximate financial value of the Linux platform.

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The Linux Foundation (LF) announced its first summit for Linux end users. The Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit runs from October 13-14 in New York City, and will "provide end users a direct connection and voice to the kernel community," says the LF.

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The year of the Linux desktop... *sigh*

The year of the Linux desktop has finally come! Really, this time. At least, that's what Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, says. Give me a break. Read the article. Not one of the arguments is bound to this year. No concrete dates, no concrete events.

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Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its "Director of Linux Interoperability" and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab -- and his name will be familiar to people in the open-source community.

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In an op-ed piece published by BusinessWeek today, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin stated his organization will be ready to fund the legal efforts of anyone who produces Linux software who's threatened with - or sued on account of - patent infringement.

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Microsoft threatens to sue Red Hat Linux, the Linux Software Foundation and IBM for patent violations. But do and can they be successful in their strategy to undermine the open-source initiatives like the GPLv3.

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In what many long-time observers of free and open source software consider a natural progression, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is to join the board of the Linux Foundation.

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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu version of Linux it commercializes, has joined the board of the Linux Foundation.

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Linux, the free operating system, has gone from an intriguing experiment to a mainstream technology in corporate data centers, helped by the backing of major technology companies like I.B.M., Intel and Hewlett-Packard, which sponsored industry consortiums to promote its adoption.

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