Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3
"Personally I think it's [Microsoft-Novell deal] a bad idea and that Novell are going to get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed to keep the software free, if it fails…
Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week June 9 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Microsoft and Xandros Sign Agreement
- Ubuntu for Mobile Internet…
Open Source centre to come up in Bengal
Speaking to UNI on the sidelines of a seminar on "Open Document Format(ODF) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)" organised by Confederation of Indian Industry, State IT Minister Debesh Das…
Is the Linux development model flawed?
Back in the early 1990s, when Linux initiator Linus Torwalds and open source software started to make headlines, the idea of giving software away seemed crazy. Looking at the headway the movement…
Microsoft hires 'Director of Linux Interoperability'
Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its "Director of Linux Interoperability" and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab -- and his name will be familiar to people in the…
Dell's next step - SUSE Linux desktops?
Why would the world's second-ranked PC seller make an effort to sell an operating system that it's never sold before on custom hardware - and do it in a half-hearted manner? Why would it do this…
KOffice 1.6.3 Released
"This is the last maintenance release of the 1.6 series, containing mainly bug fixes. There are bug fixes for almost all of the components. See the complete changelog for the complete information…
Microsoft & Linux Vendors Trading in Patent Fool's Gold
Well what do you know? Microsoft seems to be gaining ground with their "patent protection" scheme. But what if they discover they've only bought a few bricks of fool's gold?
This whole…
Ubuntu - Issue #1 Full Circle Magazine
The people at Full Circle Magazine have released Issue 1 of Full Circle Magazine, an Ubuntu e-magazine.
Full Circle Magazine.
Microsoft makes Linux deal with LG
Microsoft Wednesday inked another cross-licensing patent agreement, this time with South Korea's LG Electronics, covering the company's Linux-based embedded devices.
As part of the deal, LG…