One of the biggest gripes the FOSS community has with respect to Microsoft's business tactics is that its longstanding exclusionary agreements with hardware vendors has stifled genuine competition. This is the very issue of one of two claims Novell will be allowed to press against Microsoft in their anti-trust lawsuit.
Read more »Exclusionary Agreement Grievance Gets Airing in Novell-Microsoft Suit
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How To Kill The Patent Threat Against Linux
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One of the biggest clubs held over the head of Linux and Open Source as of late has been the threat of patent litigation. Microsoft has been at the forefront of this effort, boldly and defiantly claiming that Linux and Open Source infringes on approximately 235 of them. But they’re not the only one.
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Free Software for the SMB
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If a business is so inclined, it can get most of the software it needs for free. However, free software users need to look before they leap. "The key is looking at free and open source software that comes with solid support.
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Asianux Consortium Announces Mobile Linux Product
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The Asianux consortium, where Miracle Linux Corp of Japan, Red Flag Software Co Ltd of China and Haansoft Inc of South Korea are jointly developing Linux products, announced Oct. 15, 2007 that it will start shipping its "Asianux Mobile Midinux Edition" mobile Linux product in January 2008. Expected applications are mobile devices with Internet access capability.
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Tell Netflix: No DRM
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" When it comes to online video distribution companies, Netflix is second to none. They ship over 1.6 million DVDs per day to over 6.7 million customers. They now also make 5,000 movies and TV Shows available for download.
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Mastering JavaScript — concept and resource guide
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"There is not a single interpreted language used today that causes more excitement, confusion, disdain, and conflict than JavaScript. The language is so incredibly flexible that it is difficult to separate a developer’s choice of coding style from JavaScript best practices.
Read more »More New Rails Screencasts from RailsCasts.com
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"Ryan Bates is being a total champ in rolling out more and more consistently good Rails related screencasts for free at RailsCasts.com. Some of the latest include..."
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Richard Stallman, honary degree speech, Pavia 2007: A must read speech
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"...There is no compatibility between education and proprietary software, not at the ethical level. The source code and the methods of Free Software are part of human knowledge. The mission of every school is to disseminate human knowledge. Proprietary software is not part of human knowledge. It's secret, restricted knowledge, which schools are not allowed to disseminate.
Read more »Why “Free Software” is better than “Open Source”
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"...For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software should be open source is a practical question, not an ethical one. As one person put it, “Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.” For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal solution.
Read more »OSI approves Microsoft licenses
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"The Open Source Initiative has announced that the OSI Board has approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) as satisfying the criteria of the Open Source Definition, following their submission in August..."
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MS Drops Antitrust Appeal
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Microsoft has dropped its appeal against the Korean Fair Trade Commission, complying with the antitrust regulator's 2006 instruction to pay a 32.4 billion won ($34 million) fine and to sell its Windows operating system and other software products separately.
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Small Linux Distros For Every Occasion
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One of the (very many) areas in which Linux has pulled ahead of the pack is with live, complete Linux distributions on every form of removable media. Tiny Linuxes to full-blow kitchen sink Linuxes boot and run from USB sticks and drives, Compact Flash cards, CDs and DVDs; so they never need to touch the hard drive, or even have a hard drive present. Some of them run entirely in memory.
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10 Rocking Feature in 10 Days: AppArmor
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As we close in on the 7.10 (also known as Gutsy Gibbon) release, we are taking a look at the various cool features that we are going to get as part of this new Ubuntu. Today we turn to AppArmor, the application security framework.
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Sun offers potpourri of open-source plans
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Sun offered informational updates Monday on several ongoing efforts in the open-source arena, including product plans for the OpenSolaris version of the Solaris OS, Java, and the GlassFish application server.
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Linux Kernel: just engineering without a vision?
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If you take a FreeBSD install with KDE, Openoffice, Firefox, ..., it's going to be a good desktop experience exactly like a similar Linux install: most of the progresses of "Linux" on desktop are not about the kernel, they are about what is running on top of it.
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