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 27, 2008
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New comers to Linux sometimes think that Ubuntu sprang forth from Linux as a totally new creation, the next generation of Linux. Old-hands at Linux know better. Now, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, sets the story … Continue reading
April 23, 2008
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People have been in a tizzy over recent executive changes at the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project, but its founder, Nicholas Negroponte, in an e-mail to the group’s members on April 23rd wrote, “As we reach out to engage … Continue reading
April 22, 2008
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Who would have believed it in 2004? KDE and GNOME, the two major Linux desktop interfaces, buddying up and having their annual meetings together? It would have been easier to believe in cats and dogs signing a permanent peace treaty. … Continue reading
April 18, 2008
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Recently, both Novell and Red Hat went on record as dismissing the idea that the consumer Linux desktop is going to be taking off anytime soon. It’s not? Has anyone told Asus and Xandros? Everex and gOS? How about Dell … Continue reading
April 17, 2008
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For an executive who had just had his company bought for a cool billion a few months ago and was on the eve of announcing a major update to his business’ flagship database program, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now … Continue reading