November 17, 2006
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Reluctantly, the Ubuntu developer community has decided that with the next version of Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn, it will be including some proprietary drivers. Feisty Fawn’s emphasis on “multimedia enablement” appears to be the culprit. Feisty Fawn, aka Ubuntu 7.04, is … Continue reading
November 17, 2006
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What a surprise! What a shock! Ballmer thinks Linux rips off Microsoft intellectual property. According to Eric Lai in Computerworld, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell because Linux “uses our intellectual property” … Continue reading
November 13, 2006
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First, Sun Microsystems Inc. wouldn’t do it. Then Sun teased us with it. Now, on Nov. 13, Sun will finally open-source its implementations of Java under the GNU GPLv2 (General Public License version 2). On Monday, Sun will release the … Continue reading
November 11, 2006
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First, Sun Microsystems wouldn’t do it. Then Sun teased us with it. Now, on Nov. 13, I’ve learned that Sun will finally open-source its implementations of Java under the GNU GPL v2. Sun will release the first pieces of source … Continue reading
November 7, 2006
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When Oracle announced recently that it was supporting its own Unbreakable Linux based on Red Hat’s RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), everyone assumed that, well, it was based on RHEL. That may not be the case. A system integrator I … Continue reading
November 2, 2006
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Microsoft and Novell have announced a set of broad business, legal, and technical collaboration agreements to build, market, and support a series of new solutions that will make Novell’s Linux and Microsoft’s Windows products work better together. First, the two … Continue reading