"It’s funny how things work out sometimes … When IT Business Edge spoke to intellectual property attorney Lawrence Rosen last week, we just wanted his take on GPL v3."
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Floral firm saves 83% by moving to open-source
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"Floral company FTD is making cost savings of 83% by migrating from an existing database system to open-source for its shipping administration."
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Red Hat and IBM get certified
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Red Hat and IBM recently announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) has earned the highest level of security certification achievable by commercial off-the-shelf operating systems. The certification is applicable when RHEL5 is running on IBM hardware, but all of the software is freely available
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India's Kerala state goes open source
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According to a statement, the Kerala government has identified free and open-source software as a major strategic component in its efforts to build an inclusive information society.
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Bundestag: "Open-source strategy is not in jeopardy"
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Susanne Kastner, the chairperson of the Commission of the Council of Elders on the Use of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Bundestag (the lower chamber of Germany's Federal Parliament), has defended the decision in favor of MS Exchange and Outlook as a groupware solution for the parliamentarians.
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Microsoft Is Counting Bugs Again
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Entomology is one of my passions, but I take a different view of bugs than Microsoft—and not just by kind. The company is once again counting security bugs, and possibly to a fault.
There are some things you count and compare, and some things you don't.
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Day one at the Ottawa Linux Symposium
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The opening day of the 9th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) began with Jonathan Corbet, of Linux Weekly News and his now familiar annual Linux Kernel Report, and wrapped up with a reception put on by Intel where they displayed hardware prototypes for upcoming products.
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How Microsoft helps open source
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Matt Asay: “We have deep integration into Office, through web services, even though we’re a GPL product. If someone is wedded to Microsoft we’re probably not for them.
So Microsoft opens, and open source closes. Is that how it goes in your business, too?
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LinuxWorld Korea reflects boom in Asian Linux use
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Lhe second annual LinuxWorld Korea took place in Seoul's Coex Convention and Exhibition Center June 20 through June 23.
Read more »O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007
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This year's convention will include 40 tutorials that go deep into the technology behind open source innovations and over 400 sessions focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Web Applications, and much more
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Life at Google
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The following has been making the rounds on just about every internal email list I belong to in Microsoft. Here it is to share a little insight with the rest of the world. Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company. Google is not. Any peek is a good peek.
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Integrating Medical Information With Open Source
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"To provide quality healthcare services, healthcare providers need to share information whenever they require. In a closed environment, the interfacing issue between disparate systems has been an obstacle for communication and information sharing," said Joseph D. Dal Molin, secretary of the Open Source Health Care Alliance.
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Most Presidential candidates use open source
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Douglas Karr at the Marketing Technology Blog decided to survey the Web sites of Presidential candidates, finding out what software they were running and where they were hosted. It’s curious that open source dominates among Democrats, with only Hillary Clinton crossing the aisle to run Windows. Four Republicans
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If Linux distributions were women
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I'm proud I'm allowed to present the translationed version of the text “If Linux distributions were women“ which was originally released by Magnus Niemann.
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Operating system Family share for 06/2007
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