September 13, 2004
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Dear Sun, Since your president and COO is so fond of open letters, I thought I might deliver one of my own. On Monday, at a press conference in Burlington, Mass., you announced that you were open-sourcing Solaris 10. You … Continue reading
August 2, 2004
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SAN FRANCISCO—On Monday, OSRM, a provider of open-source consulting and risk mitigation insurance, announced that the group has found that there are 283 issued, but not yet court-validated, software patents that could conceivablly be used in patent claims against Linux. … Continue reading
July 12, 2004
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The final version of Mozilla’s Firefox will be arriving on September 14th accoding to lead engineer, Ben Goodger. Open source browser fans, and those who have grown distrustful enough of Internet Explorer’s security flaws to consider alternative browsers, will be … Continue reading
January 6, 2004
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Sun Microsystems Inc. is ending its Cobalt server product line, but thats not the end of the Cobalt story. Sun has elected to release the Cobalt RaQ 550 server appliance source code under a Berkeley style open-source license, thus giving … Continue reading
December 18, 2003
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The long-awaited Linux 2.6, with significant improvements across the board, has finally arrived. However, it won’t be adopted by major Linux distributors until the summer of 2004. Linus Torvalds released the long-awaited Linux 2.6 on Wednesday night, although it wont … Continue reading
October 21, 2003
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Is Microsoft behind SCO? Well, of course it is. Do you really think Microsoft needed a new SCO Unix license? Please! But you can forget about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer meeting by some high-tech Redmond cauldron at midnight to … Continue reading