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HP considers selling tools for open source

Internal tools for contributing to open source projects could form part of a new services offering. Read more »

HP calls for a bit of help with open source tools

HP has called on developers to pitch in and help improve the open source management tools it made available to the community last week. Read more »

Open-source leader leaving Novell for Google

Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google. Read more »

Open source legal centre launched

A centre to give free legal advice to those in the open source movement has just been establised and it should have four full-time lawyers by the end of the year. Read more »

OSI mulls changes to definition of open source

The new president of the open source initiative has suggested changing the definition of open source in an effort to stop the problem of licence proliferation. Read more »

Legal summits to tackle Linux

The Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced two legal summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software. Read more »

HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to deal

Open-source programmers might not like the idea of software patents, but those critics would be better off adapting to the fact that they're not going away, Hewlett-Packard's top Linux executive said Tuesday. Read more »

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published on Sunday. Read more »

Sybase releases 'first free production database for Linux'

The database company is going head to head with PostgreSQL and MySQL with a free version of its ASE database for Linux. Read more »

Sun considers GPL 3 licence for Solaris

Sun Microsystems is considering a dual-licensing move that could raise tantalizing possibilities of open-source cooperation between Linux and Sun's Solaris operating system, but legal issues complicate the possibility. Read more »

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Why open source is bad for Australia

Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Martin Pool

Martin Pool is a Canberra-based software engineer who started work on the distcc distributed compiler. Builder AU recently caught up with Martin to talk about his work, SCO and open source software. Read more »

The FUD war against Linux

Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux. Read more »

The commercial salvation of Linux

According to Eric Raymond, every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. But is it also the developers' interests that get served? Read more »

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

Linux hassle-free and enterprise-ready

Linux has come a long way with regard to ease of installation and use. In an interview, Robin Miller, author of Point & Click Linux, and chapter author Joe Barr, discuss Linux in the enterprise. Read more »

In defence of proprietary software

Open source advocates believe that emerging governments should give preferential treatment to their products. But why shut out proprietary software? It's profitable, attracts investment and creates jobs. Read more »

Will C# benefit Microsoft, or the industry?

Now that C# has been approved by the ISO, one question looms large: Will Microsoft use its intellectual property rights to make it difficult for developers to comply with the standard? Read more »

Torvalds: What, me worry?

In this interview Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, sounds off on the SCO lawsuit, patents and the future of Linux. Read more »

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