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Microsoft, Linux Foundation find common ground

Finally, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation agree on something. Neither wants to stand behind their products. OK, OK, that's not fair. Read more »

Solving Yahoo's identity crisis

The troubled Web giant used to be known for its innovative ways. To find a way to a brighter future, it could benefit from looking at its past. Read more »

Ubuntu-maker launches Bazaar development tool

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has released a content-development tool designed to move development into the Internet age. Read more »

OOXML 'tool of monopoly lock-in': OSI founder

The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) founder Eric S Raymond is very unhappy with Microsoft for trying to force a "divisive" and "technically bogus" specification through as an international standard. Read more »

SCO wanted to gag Torvalds

Unix company was gathering information to support a court order to silence individuals related to its open-source legal case against IBM. Read more »

Open-source group to corral licences

The Open Source Initiative has begun an effort to pare down the number of open-source licences in widespread use. 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 »

OASIS patent policy sparks boycott

A who's who of the open-source and free-software movements on Tuesday took aim at a leading Web services standards group, escalating pressure for mandatory royalty-free licensing policies with calls for a boycott of its specifications. Read more »

Open-source leader steps aside at industry group

The Open Source Initiative says that it has reorganised in an effort to bring more structure to the open-source software movement and that co-founder Eric Raymond is stepping down from his position as president. Read more »

Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrier

Sun Microsystems has quietly begun seeking official open-source status for a new software license that likely will be used to govern its Solaris operating system. Read more »

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How the Mac was born, and other tales

Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the original Mac's creators. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Who says standards are sacred?

The latest Java dispute opens the window on a little-discussed truth: Standardisation usually favors bigger companies. And many companies are much better off without them. Read more »

UNIX programming and open source Q&A

Eric Raymond's upcoming book on UNIX Programming discusses the principles that guide UNIX development. Find out what his thoughts are on the state of UNIX programming and other issues that face the open source community. Read more »

Inside the open-source development model

Programmers contribute to free software and open source projects for many reasons. In this article we take a closer look into the development models of three open source projects. Read more »

Study: Open source produces best results

A consulting group has found that a key networking component of Linux is of higher quality in several ways than that of competing closed-source software. Read more »

Open source projects require reality check

If you're managing an open source project, beware of the gotchas that go along with the task of working with volunteer developers. Read more »

Open source, shared source or secret sauce?

When Microsoft shared its code, only a few people wanted to look. Were the open-source people wrong all along? Read more »

A developer's guide to required surfing

Here are some of the Web sites you should frequent to keep in touch with all the latest information and trends. 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 »

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The best news Linux could ever receive: LinuxWorld's a bust

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The latest proof that Linux has conquered the corporate data center crowd: LinuxWorld is a dud. Read more »

Is public domain software open-source?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? Read more »

How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Thanks to some major concessions on source code and a precipitous price drop, the Chinese government has now thoroughly embraced Windows and Office, what does this mean for the world? Read more »

Software piracy rates and the BSAA

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The annual Business Software Association (BSA) report into global piracy rates of packaged software was released last week. Interestingly enough the BSA claim that Australia's piracy rates have dropped slightly by one percent making 31% of all packaged software pirated. The Australian arm of the BSA, called the Business Software Association of Australia (BSAA) claim the losses through piracy cost Australia $446 million in 2005. Read more »

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