KDE 3.5.7 Released
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other…
Sun's Schwartz Pledges to Use Patents to Protect Red Hat and Ubuntu
You have to take a look at Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog today. He has pledged the company will use its patents to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu. That's the headline, and I'm really happy to know…
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Military Moves
We're now seeing Microsoft's true stripes. The performance of the products is a charade, an unfortunate cost of doing business in a once competitive market. The real means to profits and market…
Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details from Dell
"Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering."
Ubuntu 7.04…
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Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week May 19 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft’s latest Linux attack campaign
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Google Keeps Close Eye on Open Source
Chris DiBona, open-source programs manager at Google, gave a talk called "A Year of Open Source at Google" for the Google New York speaker series. Prior to his talk, which was closed to press,…
Open source vendors fight back against Microsoft patent claims
Microsoft’s recent efforts to improve relationships with some in the open source community could be seriously undermined by this week’s claims that Linux infringes 235 Microsoft patents.
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Gartner: Software Users Must Fight for Open Source
Vendors increasingly want to tweak the meaning of open source to include, for example, attribution licensing, which says the user can modify and redistribute the software, and make derivative…
Asterisk open source company “not worried” about Microsoft patent heat
Ever since the “patent infringement” hissing and dissing match between Microsoft and the open source community flared up earlier this week, I’ve been wondering how Asterisk open source solution…