InfoWorld is preparing for its annual Bossie awards, a list of the best open source software choices for business. The Bossie awards usually include some surprises, as you'll find among last year's winners. (Are you a Splunk or Ophcrack user?) InfoWorld plans to name this year's Bossie winners on August 31st, but in advance of that, the publication has compiled its list of the 36 "most useful and important free open source projects in history." Some of the hall of famers are obvious, such as Ubuntu, but not all of them are.

Easily run Windows apps on Linux with CrossOver Linux 8. It's built on top of the open source project Wine, and runs an implementation of the Windows API.

How friendly is the Movable Type fork? Melody is a fork of the popular blogging platform.

Beyond the iPhone: What open source means for mobile. Open source--not Apple--may well be doing the most to define the future of mobile communications.

Can open source police open source? LiberKey is a French company offering a host of open source applications in one download.

Quakk, an open source Windows Mobile Twitter client is released. This one uses Microsoft's Codeplex, instead of Google Code, for storage of source code.

Over at the Lynx blog, Dougie Richardson cast his vote for the best comment made during the course of Ubuntu's Open Week. While his choice might be completely subjective, there is no denying that Mark Shuttleworth's response when asked whether WINE (in its own right, or as a general synonym for Windows compatibility) or native Linux ports were more important to Ubuntu's success was thought provoking.

The question (and answer) invite all sorts of tangential queries. What should any desktop computer be expected, by default, to deliver? If equivalent applications on different platforms have identical features and functionality, and content produced by one application can be opened and modified on the other, will user interfaces and familiarity matter less -- or more? If Microsoft made every last line of its code available to peruse and modify right now -- how would Windows change? How would Linux change? If you need a Philips head screwdriver, is it possible to squeak by with an approximately sized flat head type?