After much planning and thought about implementing new categories on Buntfu.com it became apparent that the structure needed to be descriptive yet open enough to require little maintenance was more challenging than originally anticipated. Yet, the importance and significance of supporting more hardware and software that works with Free and Open Source systems was too great to ignore.

In a swift decision Sony effectively put a price on one of its user communities. It terminated a sought-after feature in one of its products and with it went a vibrant end-user community.

A look at the 10-year anniversary IBM and Novell are celebrating; Novell is trying to poach Solaris users

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Lora Bentley spoke with Amanda McPherson, marketing and developer programs VP at the Linux Foundation. She and two colleagues recently released a new paper, “Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution.”

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Novell sees opportunity from the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. This is because there has been concern amongst some of Sun's customers since their being acquired by Oracle.