Microsoft kills its ‘Get the Facts’ anti-Linux site
It was a long time in coming. But Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness.
On August 23, Microsoft pulled plug on the “Get the…
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Alpha "Tribe 5" Released
This is the first alpha release of Gutsy Gibbon after the Feature Freeze and it is available to download from Ubuntu's site. A more-complete beta version of Gutsy Gibbon will be available on…
Open Source licence proliferation could threaten business IT
Business users of open source software should review their Open Source licensing agreements, audit their use of Open Source and create formal policies for managing source code, especially mixed-…
FrOSCon 2007
FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the second time on August, 25th - 26th 2007 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the…
How Model Train Software Will Have an Important Effect on Open Source Licensing
One of the frustrations of lawyers serving the open source industry is that they have few cases which interpret open source licenses. As Eben Moglen has pointed out, such cases are few because…
Rock Your iPod With an Open-Source Upgrade
Life is too short to listen to crappy digital music. So I recently decided to begin ripping all of my newly purchased CDs into FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec. Music files in FLAC format sound…
Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting
Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory…
Palm to launch Linux-based smartphone in October?
Palm is expected to launch its first Linux-based smartphone in October, with the company likely to introduce more Linux models in the future, according to sources close to the company.
Palm…
Open source license bars claim for copyright infringement
"Plaintiff Jacobsen wrote some decoder definition files and made them available under an open source license used by the Java Model Railroad Interface Project. This open source license granted…
Most Active Open Source Projects in Codeplex
"It is nice to see the open source projects' progress in Microsoft world, especially it is been extremely fast growth after the Codeplex launched, and also GotDotNet suggests their hosted projects…