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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 »

IBM issues subpoenas for tech giants' SCO dealings

The long-running legal battle over claims that IBM's version of Linux violates SCO Group's intellectual property took another twist on Tuesday when IBM sent subpoenas to four other tech players. Read more »

Linux kernel gains serviceability features

The Linux kernel has been updated with several serviceability improvements, chiefly around the kdump and SystemTap features. Read more »

Server powers launch new grid group

In the latest effort to put corporate teeth into the amorphous idea of grid computing, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Intel are banding together into a new group called the Globus Consortium. Read more »

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 »

IBM tries to eclipse .Net with open source

The recent launch of IBM's Office application suite is part of a broader challenge to Microsoft's entire .Net development framework, say industry experts. Read more »

Sun reluctant to make Java open source

The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. 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 »

Hyperic launches open source management project

The company is applying the open source model to the enterprise management software business Read more »

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Open-source Visionary: Linux red-flags to fall

Linux developers will cure corporate buyers of any lingering Linux phobias according to open-source guru, Dan Frye. 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 »

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 »

Asia's open source hangup

One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia. Read more »

Turf wars on the Java front

Has the JCP been corrupted by the efforts of IBM and BEA? Will Sun's AppServer 8.0 provide competition to the incumbents and more options for customers? I give you my impressions and talk with Sun software czar Jonathan Schwartz. 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 »

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 »

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 »

10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry. Read more »

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LinuxWorld Conference

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is bearing down upon us! Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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