Mandriva signs the AFUL petition "Non aux racketiciels" against tied sales
Mandriva gives its support to AFUL's action against sales of bundled
software.
Nowadays, when you buy a new computer, several pieces of software are
already pre-installed, be it…
Open Country Unveils Source Code Licensing Model for Systems Management Software
Open Country, a next-generation systems management software company, today announced it has begun licensing the source code to its flagship system management platform, OCM, the winner of…
Clubbing baby Linux penguins
Some things can't be spun.
If you're clubbing baby seals into a bloody pulp, for example, I can't hear your justifications. You can talk about needing to make a living and how this is how…
Microsoft Spits in GPL Creator Richard Stallman's Eye
Goodness, didn't Microsoft just spit in Richard Stallman's eye?
The GPL creator's attempts to stop Microsoft from cutting any more of those patent-protection deals like the one it cut with…
Zenoss Releases New Version of Open Source IT Management Product
Zenoss Inc., the company behind the most popular open source IT monitoring and management solution on Sourceforge.net, today released the next major version of Zenoss Core, version 2.0. The new…
Torvalds "quite impressed" with new version of GPLv3 final draft
While not exactly a ringing endorsement of the new version of the GPLv3 final draft, Linus Torvalds says it's "a hell of a lot better than the disaster that were the earlier drafts."
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Reiser Murder Trial Set To Begin
As a murder trial gets under way Monday in the disappearance of Nina Reiser, a 31-year-old mother of two missing since September, defense lawyers are trying to sow doubt about whether she is dead…
2008 May Be the Year of the Open-Source Desktop
Red Hat Linux is now widely deployed on the servers in my data center. Users have no idea what operating system underlies our Web applications and databases, nor do they care, as long as those…
Why the Dell/Ubuntu Deal Won't Improve Linux's Market Share
"Over the past few weeks much has been written about Dell’s decision to offer desktop and notebook PCs that have the Ubuntu Linux distro installed on them as opposed to Windows. Dell offered this…
Red Hat makes a security bundle with Symantec
Red Hat last week continued its appliance assault via a partnership with Symantec.
The companies have crafted a pair of software bundles meant to give Linux customers easier access to high-…