Asia-Pacific to be the ‘Silicon Valley’ for Open Source
The Open Source movement is creating a new business organization paradigm, which will soon shift the center of software development from Silicon Valley to the Asia-Pacific, including the…
Microsoft Seeks Open-Source Certification
After months of antagonizing the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. now appears to be trying to engage it by seeking an official stamp of approval for the licenses that the company uses to…
Microsoft not so 'open' after all?
Michael Tiemann, president of the non-profit Open Source Initiative, said that provisions in three out of five of Microsoft's shared-source licenses that restrict source code to running only on…
Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week July 28 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Debian swirl logo used in PA State Museum gift shop
- New Study…
Wikia acquires Grub, releases it under Open Source
This morning, during a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the original visionary distributed search project, from…
SCO and IBM stipulate to another change in the schedule
Well, this is different. Remember when IBM asked for a 30-day extension in the pretrial schedule deadlines, or alternatively stipulated that after the Novell trial would be fine? They couldn't get…
Wine 0.9.42 Released
New to Wine 0.9.42 is support for activation contexts and side-by-side assemblies, more gdiplus functions, other messaging support in crypt32.dll, many HTTP protocol handling fixes and other bug…
Open source software gets a chance in Russia
CNews found out a pilot open source software project was to be launched in the educational institutions in Tomsk Region and Tatarstan. According to the Ministry of Communication plans, in case of…
Tuning the Linux kernel for more aggressive network throughput
The Linux kernel and the distributions that package it typically provide very conservative defaults to certain network settings that affect networking parameters. You can tune then to optimise…
Bill Hilf and Microsoft’s ‘Terror Culture’
Apparently, some people take pride in attacking Free software. With statements such as “we would like to strike similar patent deals with all the Linux vendors, but we had to start somewhere” or…