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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library.
"The news is official now: Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc..." -- The road is still long for Cisco to embrace the Free Software Movement. Hope they'll release their products under the GPL License...
Cisco's Linksys division is shipping a networked home audio distribution system that runs Linux and uses 802.11n WiFi. The Cisco Wireless Home Audio system supports Internet radio and DLNA discovery, and includes a variety of receivers, speakers, players, iPOD docks, and a tablet-like touchscreen remote.
If you want to configure Cisco VPN on Ubuntu 9.0.4 is very easy now.You don't need to install the Cisco VPN client - NetworkManager includes support for Cisco IPSec VPNs. NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times.
When Red Hat kicks off its big customer summit June 18 in Boston, the open source giant will bring along a rather large — and surprising — date: Cisco Systems Inc. Why does Cisco plan to hang out at one of the open source industry’s largest events? The VAR Guy has a few hunches.
When Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and Juniper first said they were opening their router OSes, I thought that they'd be about as open as the iPhone. With Cisco's launch of IOS XE, I realize I was wrong: The iPhone is much more open.
Cisco has its own networking operating system, IOS, which has long been the mainstay of its routers and switches. But now Linux is powering a new generation of Cisco networking devices for small businesses.
