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Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week May 19 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft’s latest Linux attack campaign
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Google Keeps Close Eye on Open Source
Chris DiBona, open-source programs manager at Google, gave a talk called "A Year of Open Source at Google" for the Google New York speaker series. Prior to his talk, which was closed to press,…
Open source vendors fight back against Microsoft patent claims
Microsoft’s recent efforts to improve relationships with some in the open source community could be seriously undermined by this week’s claims that Linux infringes 235 Microsoft patents.
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Gartner: Software Users Must Fight for Open Source
Vendors increasingly want to tweak the meaning of open source to include, for example, attribution licensing, which says the user can modify and redistribute the software, and make derivative…
Asterisk open source company “not worried” about Microsoft patent heat
Ever since the “patent infringement” hissing and dissing match between Microsoft and the open source community flared up earlier this week, I’ve been wondering how Asterisk open source solution…
CentOS 4.5 Released
The CentOS team has announced the release of CentOS 4.5 for i386, x86_64, and IA64 systems. This release adds support for running CentOS as a paravirtualized Xen guest, and OpenOffice.org 2.…
Microsoft Linux spat good news for Novell
Microsoft's claim that it has found 235 patent violations in open source software could be good news for Novell, if advice from Redmond is followed.
Microsoft representatives have told…
Addendum to Press Release: 'SAP and Novell Deliver Expanded Linux Support Options for Customers'
"Today's announcement that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell will be integrated into the SAP Solution Center is good news for AMD customers who enjoy choice and demand high-performing…
The first children have received their 100$ laptops
Children in test schools in Brazil, Thailand, Uruguay and Nigeria have received the first OLPC 100$ laptops. These are some of the first videos of those children using the OLPC on the Internet.…