EU forces Microsoft to cage open source patent dogs
Microsoft's compliance with the 2004 EU anti-trust ruling offering some good news to open source developers and users.
The agreement will make it much easier for commercial and especially…
Predicting Open Source Licensing
What's the most popular open source license currently in use? If you said GPL you would be right. But how did you know?
Plenty of people assume that GPL is the most commonly used because…
Trolltech axes the Greenphone
The mobile Linux development company Trolltech says that it has sold out of its Greenphone reference handsets and that it will not reorder further units, because there are now suitable…
Exploring the technical details of Nokia's N810 operating system
Nokia's recent announcement of the upcoming N810 Internet Tablet is very exciting news for mobile Linux enthusiasts. We have already covered the initial announcement, but this followup discusses…
Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 Released
This is the first stable release of Compiz Fusion[1], the result of more than six months of work and polish. This stable release is based on Compiz Fusion 0.5.2, released on the 13th of August.…
SCO vs. Linux: Costly German lawyers
The never ending story surrounding SCO's litigation over alleged copyright infringements contained in Linux as well as the copyrights to Unix has taken yet another twist: The SCO Group, currently…
(Mis)understandings of the words intellectual property
Last month I was threatened with police intervention after taking pictures of my two-year-old. Why? We were in what you might think of as analogous to an outdoor mall. It’s a former industrial…
Stallman trumpets free software
Amidst hisses and applause, political activist Richard Stallman — standing barefoot behind a podium, sporting a wild beard and playing with his long, shaggy hair — discussed what he terms the “…
Another Indirect Link is Found Between Microsoft and Acacia
Remember BayStar? That company is the probably most major link between Microsoft and SCO. As you are aware, SCO’s lawsuits against Linux (vendors/users) began in 2003 and an E-mail that we have…
How Linux Is Testing The Limits Of Open Source Development
As the latest release of the Linux kernel emerged this month, it reflected a dizzying number of changes. Kernel 2.6.23, coming just three months after the last update, incorporated business-…