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SCO goes private, gets $100M to keep going, McBride out? —
Feb. 14, 2008 —
In every bad horror movie, viewers know the monster is never, ever really dead. Some Linux users may feel much the same way about Unix vendor and Linux litigator SCO. On Feb. 14, The SCO Group unexpectedly announced that it had received $100 million from private equity firm SNCP ...
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The experts' legal guide on free software —
Feb. 14, 2008 —
On Valentine's Day, the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) published a legal guide, "A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects," for open-source developers and organizers. ...
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Red Hat: JBoss to capture half of middleware market —
Feb. 13, 2008 —
Whatever else you can say about new Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, you can't say he thinks small. At the JBoss World 2008 tradeshow Feb. 13 in Orlando, Fla., Whitehurst said Red Hat plans not only for JBoss Enterprise Middleware to take 50 percent of the enterprise middleware market by ...
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10 years of open source and counting —
Feb. 12, 2008 —
I find it hard to believe that it was 10 years ago that Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens deliberately coined the phrase "open source." ...
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Mozilla dismisses new Firefox flaw warning —
Feb. 11, 2008 —
Published reports of an information leakage vulnerability affecting fully patched versions of the open-source Firefox browser have been greatly exaggerated, according to Mozilla chief evangelist Mike Shaver. ...
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Can open source and capitalism co-exist? —
Feb. 08, 2008 —
Blog: For some reason, people still can't seem to get their heads around the idea that you can make money, big money, from FOSS (Free Software/Open Source). It's a pity that more of them couldn't have been in New York City this week for the O'Reilly Money:Tech conference. ...
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Red Hat announces SAP-certified mainframe apps —
Feb. 05, 2008 —
People have been predicting the death of the mainframe for more years than the mainframe has been around. Thanks to Linux, though, the mainframe is as strong as ever, and now Red Hat has announced ...
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Linux on mainframes made easy —
Feb. 04, 2008 —
Linux and mainframes go together like ham and eggs. Linux virtual machines were reviving the mainframe market before most IT administrators knew anything about virtualization. ...
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Why companies don't support Debian —
Jan. 30, 2008 —
Opinion -- At a recent Australian Linux conference, Sam Varghese reported that two Debian developers pointed out that the Debian Project needs more corporate support for "men, money and machines" to advance the operating system. They're right. It does. ...
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SpringSource is springing forward —
Jan. 29, 2008 —
Chances are that most of you haven't heard of SpringSource. Even in open-source developer circles, it's not that well-known a name. That's about to change. ...
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openSUSE Build Service now supports Red Hat and CentOS —
Jan. 29, 2008 —
Say, you're a software developer. Say, you want to write an easy-to-install program for any Linux distribution. I'd say, "You have a problem." OpenSUSE, however, has improved upon its solution for this problem: the openSUSE Build Service, which now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. ...
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SCO's day of reckoning is set —
Jan. 22, 2008 —
On April 29, SCO will finally have its day in court, but not exactly in the way the Unix and Linux litigation company had planned. ...
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Shuttleworth urged to normalize Ubuntu branding —
Jan. 17, 2008 —
An open letter to Mark Shuttleworth urges the Ubuntu founder and leader to normalize branding around the popular open source distribution. "Given the already fragmented nature of Linux, why fragment a specific distribution unnecessarily?" writes embedded industry consultant and website publisher Rick Lehrbaum, on his DeviceGuru blog. ...
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Who says you can't use Active Directory with Linux? —
Jan. 15, 2008 —
Like it or lump it, Microsoft's Active Directory is the heart of many corporate networks. That, however, doesn't mean that Linux and Mac systems can't work and play with Active Directory. With Samba, they can. And, with Likewise, Linux and Mac can work and play well with Active Directory. ...
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Coverity secures 11 open-source projects —
Jan. 08, 2008 —
Coverity is updating the Web site it runs that enables developers to run their code against the company's automated software quality tools to identify and fix security vulnerabilities. ...
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