April 29, 2008
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I don’t know if Hans Reiser, creator of the well-regarded, open-source ReiserFS (Reiser File System), is actually guilty of the murder of his estranged wife, Nina Reiser. We can’t actually even be sure that Nina Reiser was murdered. Her body … Continue reading
April 28, 2008
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Years into its legal wars against Linux, SCO gets another chance to go to court on April 28th. However, the case at hand, one last attempt to show that it, and not Novell, owns Unix’s copyright isn’t the case, SCO … Continue reading
April 22, 2008
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Thanks to the European Union’s courts, Microsoft was forced to open up its APIs and protocols for its MCPP (Microsoft Communications Protocol Program) and WSPP (Workgroup Server Protocol Program). According to Keith Hageman, an MSDN moderator, “The MCPP package content … Continue reading
April 3, 2008
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Like the 11th chapter of a bad horror movie, the SCO zombie keeps stumbling forward moaning “Linux,” instead of “Brains.” This time, however, there may not be another movie left for SCO. SCO’s most recent would-be buyer, Stephen Norris & … Continue reading
March 31, 2008
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Lately, Microsoft has been trying really, really hard to appear as open source’s best friend. All I can say is: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” Microsoft has been making all these wonderful promises of opening up APIs and … Continue reading
March 17, 2008
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For decades, almost no one challenged the General Public License in legal matters. In fact, no one has even dared to try to break it in court. That record remains unsullied as the biggest company to date–Verizon–that had been accused … Continue reading