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Biggest legal victory ever for GPL —
Mar. 17, 2008 —
For decades, almost no one challenged the General Public License in legal matters. In fact, no one has even dared to try to break it in court. That record remains unsullied ...
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Eclipse launches OSGi-based runtime project —
Mar. 17, 2008 —
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Eclipse Foundation is announcing a runtime initiative based on Equinox, the organization's implementation of the Open Services Gateway Initiative technology. ...
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Novell ships Mono development tool —
Mar. 17, 2008 —
MonoDevelop 1.0, a Novell development tool and part of the company's project to deliver an open-source platform compatible with Microsoft's .Net Framework, is now available, the company announced March 12. ...
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SpringSource releases tool suite —
Mar. 17, 2008 —
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – SpringSource, the company behind the Spring Framework, is rolling out the SpringSource Tool Suite. ...
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Sun unveils NetBeans 6.1 beta —
Mar. 17, 2008 —
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Not to be outdone by the confab for Eclipse developers at EclipseCon here, Sun Microsystems is announcing the beta of its NetBeans 6.1 integrated development environment. ...
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Novell CEO looks to the future —
Mar. 17, 2008 —
SALT LAKE CITY – When Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian takes to the stage to open the company’s BrainShare 2008 conference here March 17, he will talk about what has been achieved over the past year and what he hopes to do in the year ahead. ...
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Parallel Computing's Already Here —
Mar. 14, 2008 —
The future is today. When Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, looked into his crystal ball and predicted that parallel computing would be the next revolution in computing, he was quite correct. ...
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Windows Home Server: Unbelievably bad storage —
Mar. 12, 2008 —
Believe it or not, recently I've seen several Microsoft products -- Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V virtualization -- that I think are winners. But then, just when I think Microsoft might finally be getting its technology act together, it comes up with a complete disaster: Windows Home Server. ...
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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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