The "Windows Vista Capable" lawsuit took another step toward trial—or settlement—Tuesday when US District Court Judge Marsha Pechman denied Microsoft's request for dismissal. The suit was filed in March by a pair of miffed PC buyers.
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What happened to Firefox?
Firefox... what happened to you? You were supposed to be a slim browser usurping Mozilla by virtue of simplicity, shedding the feature creep and lack of engineering that had convoluted the Mozilla suite. Now you have become the very thing you were created to kill: a bloated browser.
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Device-oriented products hot at LinuxWorld Expo
Several device-oriented products familiar to LinuxDevices readers came away from last week's LinuxWorld Expo with product excellence awards. Winners included Trolltech's Qtopia Greenphone SDK (software development kit), Unicon's System-on-Display hardware reference design, and Coverity's online software quality testing tools.
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Linux gains open source multimedia middleware
A seven-year-old, dual-licensed project for cross-platform multimedia middleware has achieved its first stable release.
Read more »Linux Mint Takes on a KDE Flavor
Linux Mint, a community Linux distribution that includes some proprietary elements for a better "out of the box" user experience, is now available in an edition with KDE as its desktop environment.
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People of openSUSE: Martin Schlander
Here is the interview with Martin Schlander, also known as ‘cb400f’, from Denmark. Have fun reading it!
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Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs Solaris
I think we all know which of the three major Unix variants has the largest number of paid up licenses for non embedded use: it’s the one we usually hear least about, the Darwin BSD variant used by Apple to host the MacOS X shell.
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Addon tools for OpenOffice.org Writer
A list of macros that add functionality to OpenOffice.org.
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Novell Scoops Up Senforce Security Vendor
Senforce Technologies, a small Draper, Utah, company that makes software to protect laptops and other wireless devices from security threats, has been bought by Novell. The deal closed Monday. Financial terms weren't disclosed by Waltham, Mass.-based Novell, which was established 24 years ago in Provo, Utah, and still employs 1,600 people at its office building an hour south of Salt Lake City.
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Sirius Streams Onto Sonos Multi-Room Stereo System
Sonos, which sells wireless, multi-room home audio systems, has introduced new software that allows users to access Sirius Internet Radio. Called "Sonos System Software v 2.3," the new offering enables Sonos owners with Sirius subscriptions to access Sirius programming and control their listening with the handheld Sonos Controller.
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Selling software that sells itself: An interview with Matt Asay
Open source is changing not just how companies make software, but how they sell it. Alfresco's Matt Asay explains the new sales cycle and the skills that today's software sales people need to close deals.
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Wiki's search service challenges the big players
"Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is putting in place the building blocks for a community-developed web service to compete with search engines such as Google and Yahoo!..."
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Open Source Revolution: How Open Source Can Change Things
"Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source
encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete —
both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind.
Goodbye World Book and Brittanica...
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Three Minutes With Wikipedia’s Founder
"...The foundation as an organization, in two or three years, we think will be a “model” organization that people can look to..."
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