Novell-Microsoft agreements worse than useless
The Software Freedom Law Center's CTO Bradley Kuhn has issued a statement regarding the Novell-Microsoft agreements and how they will impact FOSS developers. They have analyzed in particular…
Open Source Indemnification: More Harm than Good
Since SCO filed its lawsuit against IBM several years ago, a number of vendors have stepped forward to indemnify their customers from suit if the customer becomes embroiled in any litigation…
Open-Source Ventures: Where's the Money?
Open source has plenty of supporters—among them venture capitalists who view the software as a disruptive technology with huge potential. But that doesn’t mean they’re about to throw cash at open-…
Red Hat and VMware Expand Relationship
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, and VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software, today announced an expanded relationship to…
Cleaning up a Debian GNU/Linux system
You arrive at a Debian GNU/Linux server which has some history of neglection. Let's suppose someone else neglected it but if your new-year resolution is to stop neglecting your beloved server,…
Charity shuns open source code
The theory behind open-source software is that it avoids many of the pitfalls - including cost - of closed alternatives.
But Steven Buckley, who runs Christian Aid's common knowledge…
A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE
Wake up little SUSE, Wake up. No, that's not good enough. Wake up SUSE customers, wake up. Novell is jeopardizing the future of Linux for its own short-term rewards. If you want to see Linux…
Microsoft says open to more Linux-type deals
Microsoft Corp. is open to more deals like one it just agreed with Novell for open-source Linux software, but believes customers will continue to pay for software, its chief executive told an…
Novell Releases Mono 1.2 with Enhanced Support for .NET on Linux
Novell announced the release of Mono(R) version 1.2, a significant advancement in the expansion of the Mono project and an important milestone toward compatibility with version 2.0 of the .NET…
GNOME 2.17.2 Released
"This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. New features are coming in at a nice rate, and that's great. A lot of bug fixes too…