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The story of Drupal is one great open-source success story. Buytaert's life kinda parallels Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg without the mean attitude and lawsuits (if the Hollywood version can be believed). Buytaert also started Drupal in college and it took him years to figure out how to make a living from it. Linus Torvalds even helped him figure out how.

This guy has the Ubuntu logo tattooed to his arm ... many times. He makes Maddog's Tux (next one pictured) look well, not mad at all.

Red Hat's corporate culture is meritocracy where the collective holds the power and people don't follow an idea unless they believe it's a good one (even if it's the CEO's). The CEO could even be called a moron on open forums where ideas are discussed -- and argued over. "It's not about everybody holding hands and singing Kumbaya. A lot of people find our culture kind of harsh," Jim Whitehurst describes.

It's a crazy, mixed up world. If it wasn't for 9/11, Whitehurst wouldn't be running Red Hat today.

In 2012, a shocking number of enterprises will slink away from Oracle into the arms of competitors Red Hat and SUSE, new market research finds. In other words, no one is buying into Oracle's "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" RHEL clone. Imagine that.

The Linux Foundation has added three enterprise, cloud-focused companies to its membership: Eucalyptus Systems, Nebula and Virtual Bridges. Here's hoping the foundation can convince Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos that the company's "open core" strategy isn't really "open source."

Taking without contributing back to the upstream project defeats the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all open source users realize this, contends Jim Zemlin. So the time for cajoling those users -- even commercial projects like Ubuntu leader Canonical -- into participating is over. Contributing is "not the right thing to do because of some moral issue or because we say you should do it. It's because you are an idiot if you don't," he says.

It's been four years since Microsoft and Novell inked their controversial interoperability agreement and it still had a year left to run. Even though SUSE is under new management with Attachmate Group, Microsoft liked the agreement so much that it decided to re-up the deal for another four years and $100 million. Attachmate looked the $100 million in the face, and said yes.

Last week, the Xen.org community announced a significant milestone in the world of Linux virtualization with the news that open source Xen code for Dom0 was accepted into the Linux mainline kernel.

If you can stand another OpenOffice.org/Apache story, this is a good one. Apache Software Foundation (ASF) president Jim Jagielski gives details into the organization's plans for the office suit if Apache votes to accept it, including how IBM will be roped into providing engineering resources (since Oracle won't) and licensing.

In what may not be the best-kept secret, Oracle has finally spilled the beans: It's proposing OpenOffice.org as an Apache Incubator project — and not handing it to The Document Foundation. Oracle had announced earlier this year that it would be passing the torch to the community, but failed to provide any specifics about the ultimate destination. The Document Foundation is the organization behind the OpenOffice fork, LibreOffice.

Scott Crenshaw: "Pundits around the industry are using the repeated – and successful -- attacks on Sony’s Playstation Network as proof clouds aren't secure. But what's 'cloudy' about PSN?"

The Outercurve Foundation's (formerly CodePlex) Stephan Walli offers some interesting perspective on the future of Mono and SuSE. He writes: "I've written about Novell's SuSE positioning over the years and their need to be more than 'We're not Red Hat.' Mono was always been a potentially excellent strategic differentiator. But first you need to understand how Microsoft dropped the ball."

Although a jury found Google liable for patent infringement over patent claims against Linux, at least one legal expert thinks that Google has more than a fighting chance to overturn the verdict on appeal. But the more you look at this case, the uglier and more unfair it gets.

When Nokia decided to turn Symbian into an open source project, the move was hailed as a possible model for how others could embrace the open source movement. OK, didn't happen. Symbian imploded. A model it wasn't. Here's an interesting insider viewpoint on what went wrong by Stephen Walli (of OutCurve, formerly known as the CodePlex Foundation), who was one of the consultants that originally helped Symbian go open source. Hint: never saddle your new open source foundation with 200 employees from the getgo.

Amidst news on Tuesday from Rackspace and Dell about their plans for OpenStack was a nice little nugget about Dell making its first code contribution to the cloud OS project. Dell will contribute a tool that automates server configuration for OpenStack. Looks like Dell is inching towards a PowerEdge C config already optimized for (if not pre-loaded with) the open source cloud OS (which can't make Eucalyptus happy). Meanwhile Rackspace wants enterprises to hire it to build 'private clouds' on OpenStack, which marches even more directly into so-called 'open core' Eucalyptus's territory.

Ever since the PCI council made using a web application firewall a requirement, the WAF market has been screaming for an open source alternative. At the RSA Security, not one, but two vendors came forward to announce new projects: IronBee (a venture between Qualys and Akamai) and the Art of Defense open-sourced its core WAF in a project called openWAF. A few other interesting open source tidbits surfed in RSA, too, from Suricata and Cloud.com.

According to Black Duck data, the number of AGPL projects grew 74% in 2010. The numbers and profiles of AGPL-licensed projects are becoming significant. Why is that?

Stephen Spector writes, "With the recent announcement from Apple that Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave and subsequent short-lived stock drop I began to wonder if people really think that the entire company is 100% dependent on Steve Jobs. So, does the Linux community have a similar problem when it comes to Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel?"

Take a stroll through an AT&T store this holiday season and you can't help but notice that it's deja view all over again. Apple is making the same mistake with the iPhone that it made with the PC. Android phones come in all shapes, sizes, price points. Off in that lonely corner is the iPhone in two models: the latest iPhone 4 and the older iPhone 3GS. That's it.