"The funny thing for me is that intellectual property is, often, intellectually dishonest."
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Comedy at the British Open Source Consortium
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"The BBC wants to release a product that would allow users to view BBC programs on their PC. Initially, this will be Windows-only for the same reasons 99% of third-party software OEMs target Windows first before providing support for other operating systems (if at all)."
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Sun CEO Mum on GPLv3, Reveals Licensing Hopes
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Everything we build will be built in the open source community, it will be built with a community of partners around us and, with all deference to my friends from the Linux world, under a coherent license that we can draft, ideally in concert with Linus, so we end up with a common platform and a common opportunity.
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An Antic Disposition: A File Format Timeline
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Microsoft's attitude towards file formats. When a picture is better than 1000 words...
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Scientific Linux 4.5: new release offers speed boost
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"Officially released Monday, Scientific Linux 4.5 can now be installed as a Xen paravirtual guest which, according to the developers "gives a significant speed increase over fully virtualized guests.""
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Free Software's Anti-Steve
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"We now know what happens when big hairy software coders work with big hairy lawyers. The result, understandably, is anything but slick."
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Microsoft Gives OIN the Cold Shoulder
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"Microsoft has no current plans to join the Open Innovation Network, a move that some in the free and open-source community have suggested would benefit them both."
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Is the next President of the United States running Linux?
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"Earlier today I read a post about Ron Paul’s website. Interestingly, his site is less of a typical candidate site and more of a mashup of other sources of information about him."
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Vista security baloney
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"If you believe Jeff Jones, Microsoft's security strategy director, then Vista is much more secure than XP, Mac OS X, and Linux."
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Is a Linux Civil War in the Making?
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"Opinion: Is Microsoft just selling the ammo? Or, is Microsoft fighting the wrong war with the wrong weapons?"
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Tribe 2 released
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"welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10."
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Greens don't accept Berlin 'nein' to open source
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The Green Party is accusing the Berlin city government of lacking a coherent IT strategy and thus not being in a position to adequately judge the merits of open source software.
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Bring Out the GIMP Part 1: GIMP Basics
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No matter which Linux distro you run, chances are it came with a magnificent little image editor called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). Unlike Paint and other free-with-your-OS image editors, GIMP is a full featured graphics app with a broad range of capabilities that rival those os Adobe Photoshop.
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What's Open Source Worth on Wall Street?
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"The open source model, as Red Hat has proven, can be extremely profitable," says Kevin Harvey, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, and MySQL's chairman. "It's not a story of profits at first; it's a story of profits you'll generate as you grow." MySQL would like to see considerably more growth, even before selling stock to the public.
Read more »Red Hat Profit Surges 17 Percent in Q1
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Red Hat's first quarter profit, reported Wednesday, jumped 17 percent from the year-ago period, bolstered by new offerings and the continuation of high-dollar partnerships. In October, shares of Red Hat tumbled 24 percent on the news that Oracle was to move aggressively onto Red Hat's turf by selling maintenance services for Red Hat products.
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