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Microsoft, Novell Make Peace over Linux
Microsoft and Novell announced on Nov. 2 a set of broad collaboration agreements to build, market and support a…
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LSB Developer Network: An MSDN for Linux
One major advantage Microsoft developers have over their Linux counterparts is that they have access to MSDN (Microsoft Software…
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Is Red Hat in Trouble?
Red Hat’s total revenue for its fiscal 2007 second quarter may have grown, but when the second-quarter profit slipped…
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Open-Source Guru Eric Raymond Joins Freespire Board
In a move that some may have sensed was coming, Eric S. Raymond—one of the co-founders of the open-source…
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GPLv3 Could Kill Open Source, Top Linux Developers Warn
Many of the top Linux developers have announced their objections to the proposed GPLv3. In a position paper released…
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Playing the Standards Game the Microsoft Way
The headline reads, “Microsoft Bows to Pressure to Interoperate with ODF.” Oh no, Microsoft isn’t. The Redmond crew has…
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SCO’s Case at an End?
Since Day One of The SCO Group’s lawsuit against IBM on the grounds that the corporate giant had stolen…
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Vista/SUSE Smackdown
In one corner, we have the champ—Windows. Come January, it will come out swinging with what Microsoft tells us…
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Itanium Needs Linux, but Does Linux Need Itanium?
For years now, I’ve been hearing about how Intel’s Itanium platform was going to be the server chip to…