Microsoft's $6 billion Open Source play
This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies will integrate their IT, but inside information indicates the…
Microsoft's scare tactics protecting profits, says Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin says Microsoft's recent patent claim against Linux and the open source community is a furphy, alleging it is a delaying tactic to merely help protect its profits,…
XBMC recruiting developers for Linux port
"A few developers on Team-XBMC have begun the porting of XBMC to Linux and OpenGL using the SDL toolkit. The goal is for this to become a full port of XBMC containing all the features and…
HELIOS offers free simplified Linux distribution for Sony PLAYSTATION 3
HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading developer of cross-platform networking, PDF, and image server solutions for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and web clients, released today, under basic agreement with Terra…
Rhythmbox 0.10.1 "Diamond in the rough" Released
"On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the second release in the 0.10 stable series. Rhythmbox 0.10.1 "Diamond in the rough" has no additional features over 0.10.0, only bug…
Why SCO Does Not Own the Unix Copyrights
For many years the IT industry presumed that Santa Cruz Operation was the sole and rightful owner of the original Unix. Unix, of course was developed originally at AT&T and spun off into their…
Linux Distribution Guide
This is a brief 4 page guide to the world of Linux distributions, primarily aimed at individuals who are new to the Linux scene, and who are thinking about taking the plunge and trying Linux for…
Eben Moglen: GPLv3 not about MS and Novell
One of the highlights of my visit to San Diego for the Red Hat Summit was the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with Professor Eben Moglen. From that interview, we have selected six segments on…
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
A recent posting by George Ou about Windows Home Server brought out a lot of responses from the Linux community. I think that Microsoft deserves to get some competition.
Here's the…
GPLv3 threatens Microsoft-Novell pact?
Novell is concerned that Microsoft could stop selling SUSE Linux coupons if the GPLv3 remains in its current form.
Its worries were aired in the delayed regulatory filing of its annual…