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Microsoft admits to Home Server data corruption problem —
Mar. 12, 2008 —
Microsoft admitted on a technical blog on March 10 that Windows Home Server can corrupt data when used with a wide variety of common applications. According to the blog posting, Microsoft has been aware of the "data corruption issue" since "late December 2007." ...
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Why Sun`s CEO Is fast becoming a leading spokesperson for the open-source community —
Mar. 12, 2008 —
STANFORD, Calif.—Walking into the big meeting room at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus March 7 for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research summit, the first thing one noticed were the comfortable-looking, overstuffed dark leather chairs on the podium for speakers and panelists. Conferences ...
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LinMin Bare Metal Virtualization Provisioning program arrives —
Mar. 11, 2008 —
There are major, usually expensive, commercial virtualization programs, there are major open-source virtualization programs that require expertise to set up properly, and now, LinMin, a new Linux system management company, says there's another alternative: LBMP (LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning). ...
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GPL scores another win —
Mar. 07, 2008 —
The Software Freedom Law Center and High-Gain Antennas jointly announced March 6 that High-Gain will conform to the General Public License and that as a result the SFLC will dismiss its GPL lawsuit. ...
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Microsoft, Eclipse make plans —
Mar. 06, 2008 —
LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft continues to show its openness. At a panel at the MIX conference here March 6, Sam Ramji, director of open source and strategy at Microsoft, said that in addition to many recent overtures the company has made ...
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Red Hat adds top intellectual property lawyers —
Mar. 06, 2008 —
It's a sign of the times when a major open-source company makes a big deal of hiring not top developers, but top lawyers. On March 5, Red Hat announced that it is hiring top intellectual property attorneys ...
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SCO CEO McBride gets ready to leave —
Mar. 04, 2008 —
It's been an open secret that controversial SCO CEO Darl McBride was being forced out. Now, in an interview with the Salt Lake City Tribune, McBride admits that his days at SCO are numbered.
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The best Linux system repair disk graduates to 1.0 —
Mar. 03, 2008 —
Opinion -- If you need to repair PCs, even if you don't use Linux as a rule, you should have a Linux repair CD. These self-booting Linux distributions give you all the software tools you need to bring all but the deadest computers back to life. The best of these ...
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Sun Hires Python Experts —
Mar. 03, 2008 —
Sun Microsystems is hiring two expert dynamic language developers particularly versed in the development of the Python and off-shoot Jython languages. ...
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Cobra opens up —
Feb. 29, 2008 —
The Cobra language, which is based on Python and supports .Net, has gone open source. Chuck Esterbrook, a language enthusiast and consultant, created the Cobra language over the last year, working full-time on the project and funding the effort through winnings from a poker tournament. ...
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Adobe to deliver AIR for Linux —
Feb. 26, 2008 —
SAN FRANCISCO—Adobe Systems hopes to make nice with the open-source community and soon deliver a Linux version of its newly released Adobe Integrated Runtime. ...
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Does Microsoft really want to be open source's friend? —
Feb. 22, 2008 —
Blog -- Is Microsoft offering an olive branch to open source and Linux? Or is Microsoft just putting the best possible face on its defeat by the EU justice system, and its recent statements are really just business as usual? ...
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What's behind the SCO buyout —
Feb. 15, 2008 —
Opinion -- If I had a $100 million lying around, I really think I could find a better investment for my money than buying SCO. I could invest in, say, high-quality stocks, bonds, gold, New Orleans real estate, collectable Pez containers or, just the other day, I got this interesting ...
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Is Microsoft/Yahoo about Windows' failure as a top server platform? —
Feb. 14, 2008 —
Before my whiney enemies all get up in arms about yours truly once more beating up on Microsoft, I'd like to point out that the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo being a tacit admission that Windows can't cut the mustard as a top Internet server platform didn't originate with me. ...
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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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