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VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code

May 10, 2008 (1:00:00 AM) - 54 minutes ago

Back at the Linux Foundation Austin Summit, VIA had announced plans to develop a new open-source initiative in a similar fashion what AMD has been doing. However, in the weeks following that they haven't done much for the open-source community. As was highlighted in VIA's Open-Source Efforts A Bluff?, their Linux website just contains two binary drivers right now and not much of anything else -- not even bug tracking software or a mailing list. This has upset some, but fortunately VIA has stepped up to the plate and shown they are actually doing more than a media blitz.

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How one vendor learned to stop worrying (about open source) and love Microsoft

May 10, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

Aras Corp. was a small, struggling software maker that stirred up a hornet's nest early last year, when it made a pair of seemingly contradictory decisions. First, the Andover, Mass.-based company made its expensive — we're talking up to a million dollars for a single license — product life-cycle management (PLM) software available on a free and open-source basis. Second, rather than trying to curry favor with the mainstream open-source community by making even a vague commitment to port its software to Linux, Aras said outright that it would continue developing only for Windows. And instead of distributing its wares through a mechanism such as the GNU General Public License, the company decided to use one of Microsoft's so-called shared-source licenses, which at the time had yet to be accepted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as legitimate open-source licenses. The reaction, unsurprisingly, wasn't favorable.

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SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden

May 09, 2008 (11:00:00 PM) - 2 hours, 54 minutes ago

Last week, I recorded a podcast with Dennis Byron, analyst at eBizQ. Dennis wanted to talk about how open source is the fundamental enabler of Software as a Service, an idea he started writing about after a conversation with some guy named Jim Zemlin. ;-)

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MySQL Remains 'Fully Functional and Open Source'

May 09, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 3 hours, 54 minutes ago

When Sun announced it would offer certain plugins and features for enterprise customers only, and maybe even make them closed-source, the open source community was up in arms. It seems that MySQL and Sun have listened to the criticism, as these plans are now off the table. In fact, these plans did not originate within Sun in the first place.

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House Democrats Try Again With Net Neutrality Bill

May 09, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 4 hours, 24 minutes ago

Two House Democrats today introduced another bill that would prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) from slowing or degrading the delivery of some content over their networks.

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NASA, SGI Plan Petaflop Computer Breakthrough

May 09, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 4 hours, 54 minutes ago

The race to petaflop supercomputers is heating up, with the latest entry coming from NASA, Intel and SGI. The trio announced plans to build what will be a petaflop-capable supercomputer by next year, and up to 10 petaflops (define) by 2012.

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Panel PCs support PoE, Linux

May 09, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 5 hours, 24 minutes ago

Contendo Systems announced two flat-panel PCs that run Linux or Windows CE, and can use PoE (power over Ethernet). The ITP-070 and ITP-104 feature touchscreen displays, microSD storage, sealed aluminum cases, and Marvell PXA270 or PXA320 processors running at up to 806MHz.

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Sun demo's RIA tools on Android

May 09, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 5 hours, 54 minutes ago

At this year's JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems demonstrated its JavaFX technology for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). The Linux-based, GPL-licensable technology will first appear for desktop operating systems (OSes) this Fall, says Sun, with JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX TV due in Spring 2009.

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Article explores Linux hot-patching utility

May 09, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 6 hours, 24 minutes ago

LWN.net has published an article about ksplice, a hot-patching utility for the Linux kernel that was developed by an MIT grad student. Ksplice lets users make changes to running kernel code -- for example to apply a security patch -- without rebooting the system or interrupting services running on it.

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Embedded Linux is doomed. DOOOMED!

May 09, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 6 hours, 54 minutes ago

In an opinion piece for Embedded.com, Green Hills Software CEO Dan O'Dowd has resumed his crusade against embedded Linux -- with a new twist. O'Dowd argues that recent marketing by commercial Linux distro vendors MontaVista and Wind River prove that they agree that embedded Linux is "chaos."

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Skype Withdraws Appeal Case and GPL Wins

May 09, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 7 hours, 54 minutes ago

After last year's case, when the high district court of Munich, Germany, issued an injunction against Skype for selling the SMC WSKP 100 Linux-based WiFi VoIP phone, the Luxembourg-based company seems to be plagued with legal problems once more, this time related to the violation of the GPL license. After the initial GPL violation, Skype provided a flier with the URL for the source code with the package and now they decided to make an appeal on the court's decision... and they've lost!

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Hector Ruiz Plans to Sell AMD's Consumer Division

May 09, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 24 minutes ago

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz said during the meeting with the company's shareholders that he saw more changes coming as part of the restructuring policy. He also admitted that AMD had been a poor performer on the CPU market during 2007, but the new restructuring plans would make AMD "consistently" profitable.

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FreeRTOS - A Mini Real Time Kernel

May 09, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 54 minutes ago

If you're having trouble getting Linux to run on that 8-bit processor with 32KB of memory don't despair, there are open-source alternatives. FreeRTOS is an open source real time kernel that has been ported to a number of microprocessors. The website lists ports to over 40 different processor/compiler combinations.

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Multi-Pointer X Going Mainline

May 09, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 9 hours, 24 minutes ago

In our article earlier this week looking at the status of X.Org 7.4, one of the features originally planned for integration in this X Server release was MPX, or Multi-Pointer X. While it's been in development for over two years and has been at an experimental state, it's been featured in popular YouTube videos as this is the technology on Linux that allows multiple keyboards and mice to be attached to a single system and MPX allows these input devices to function independently on the same windowing system. For those of you interested in this desktop technology, it's been announced that MPX will finally be merged into the mainline X.Org tree later this month.

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The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation

May 09, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 9 hours, 54 minutes ago

I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an Open Source License ProliferationOSI-approved license. The tides are shifting, debates now center around which open source license to use. Adding to the complexity of the debate is proliferation of OSI-approved licenses. Now discussions are rising over the open source licenses that are in the best interest of all stakeholders of an open source project. In the case of collective software works there is also the added intricacies of license compatibility.

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Book review: Backup & Recovery

May 09, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 10 hours, 24 minutes ago

The undeniable importance of backup is the reason why system administrators invest time and effort into creating and maintaining a backup system fit for their infrastructure. While for a home user it may be enough to burn their files to a DVD from time to time, professionals and organizations must tackle the problem of possible data loss with a strong understanding of their needs.

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All OSS Developers Are Equal, But Some OSS Developers Are More Equal Than Others!

May 09, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 54 minutes ago

The Open Source Software community was founded on the notion that any party can use, modify and further distribute OSS, so long as that party contributes back to the OSS community the human-readable "source code" of any changes/ enhancements made to the software. Unfortunately, the Free Software Foundation's recent efforts to revise the GNU General Public License have eroded this core "share-and-share-alike" principle. More specifically, the FSF's failure to fix a legal glitch in the GPL called the "ASP Loophole," and its treatment of certain OSS developers more favorably than others in terms of which of their OSS enhancements they are asked to contribute back to the OSS community, have relegated certain OSS developers to second-class status and have (along with other FSF missteps) caused dissension and division within the OSS community.

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OpenID and Good Citizenship

May 09, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 11 hours, 54 minutes ago

Hey! So I’ll just blurt it out: we’ve joined the OpenID Foundation! But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start from the beginning.

Read more at: sourceforge.net ( 2 comments )

OLPC's capitulation to Windows: A community failure?

May 09, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 15 hours, 54 minutes ago

Is Nicholas Negroponte's capitulation to Windows last month due largely to a lack of open-source community involvement in the One Laptop Per Child project?

OpenKM 2.0. - Open Source Document Management System (dms)

May 09, 2008 (8:00:00 AM) - 17 hours, 54 minutes ago

OpenKM , open source document management system announces release of OpenKM version 2.0.

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