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Open source: The newest competitive tool

A few years ago, releasing once-secret source code to the public would have been a highly unusual first move for a company with a newly acquired software product line. Read more »

UPDATE: SCO: Customers bear Linux legal risks

SCO Group, a struggling company that has claimed its Unix intellectual property has been illegally incorporated into Linux, sent a letter to about 1,500 of the world's largest corporations warning they could be liable for using Linux. Read more »

Oracle's BEA takeover attempt sparks war of words

Oracle and BEA Systems have traded salvos over the series of events that led to Oracle's bid for the company. Read more »

Yang's departure could open Microsoft door

Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens the door wide for another Microsoft offer, analysts and shareholders said this week. Read more »

Red Hat doubles JBoss funding

Open-source specialist Red Hat claims that it is doubling the amount of research and development investment in JBoss — the open-source application server company it acquired last June. Read more »

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Flickr fans band together to fend off Microsoft

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This is what happens when Microsoft tries to take over not just a company but also a community: a number of Flickr users have launched a group opposing the attempted acquisition. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff Unlocking Android

    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

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