Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 this week, according…
Ubuntu lays down the trademark law
Trademarks have recently become something of an issue in open-source circles. Debian, for example, recently took exception to Mozilla's Firefox trademark rules and called its version of the…
The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time
eWEEK Labs names the applications that have moved open-source technologies from corporate curiosities to integral enterprise tools.
The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time.
Microsoft employee blogs about switching from Windows to Ubuntu
"What was able to drain the marrow of life from my body and leave only hollowed-out shell of the man who once occupied this space? Six years ago I began working for Microsoft."
Microsoft…
Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week April 28 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code
- Bill Gates…
Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Andrew Morton
On Tuesday, May 1st, the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series will be pleased to host Andrew Morton, who will be presenting "The State of the Linux Kernel." Andrew, lead maintainer for…
Would you use Windows if it was GPL?
"In my last post, several people accused me of being anti-Microsoft. This is not true at all! I believe that Microsoft makes good products. Do you think they could attain a 95% market share…
Linux On Wall Street Is Not An Oxymoron. Or Is It?
The Linux on Wall Street conference in New York is an attempt to highlight Linux and open source vendors and solutions, demonstrating and pontificating on how they all can work together.
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Wine 0.9.36 Released
Wine 0.9.36 was released today with Midi support in the CoreAudio driver, mixer support in the Alsa driver, a few MSI fixes, implementation for most D3DRM functions, the usual assortment of…
Project Honey Pot Files $1B+ Lawsuit Against Spammers
On Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 10:54am in a court in the Eastern District of Virginia, Project Honey Pot filed the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever. Seeking more than $1B in statutory damages, the…