Novell statement on Microsoft’s GPLv3 position
On Friday, June 29, 2007, the Free Software Foundation released the final version of the new GNU Public License, GPLv3. Given the terms of GPLv3, we re-affirm Novell’s ability to include…
Can Linux Adoption Ever be Accurately Gauged?
Determining usage and growth of Free software has always been a challenge. For over a decade, arguments have been held – sometimes flamewars – whose central point was the usage level of software…
Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Release
After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all future releases of Samba.
The GPLv3 is the updated version of the GPLv2 license…
Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released
The Linux 2.6.22 kernel was release yesterday. Features include a WLAN driver for the OLPC laptop and an Ivtv driver for various Hauppauge WinTV-PVR models, new WLAN and FireWire stacks and…
Ars Technica looks at the Intel classmate PC running Mandriva Linux
Ars Technica were at aKademy 2007, where they took a look at the Intel classmate PC running Mandriva Linux. Their impressions are here.
Linux Rolls On
"Know some of you saw this in last week's post, but I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States. More details…
Returns on open source VC investments
Matthew Aslett reports that VC funding to open source startups rose more than 33% in 2Q07 vs. 2Q06. A decline in funding in 1Q07 resulted in an overall decline of 6.4% to $198.85M in 1H07 vs. 1H06…
Openmoko goes live
OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.
…Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week July 7 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- OpenMoko availavle on July 9th
- Motorola Releases Open Source…
Interview with FSFE President Georg Greve
Sean Daly had the opportunity to meet up in Brussles with George Greve, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, on July 2nd, and naturally he wanted to ask him about GPLv3. He also got…