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Be all the geek you can be
The Geek Freedom League is upping its game this year in their fight for "PC liberation" in South Africa, with a number of initiatives...
SugarCRM: No Trendsetter with Licensing Move
Open-source vendor SugarCRM the week of Feb. 13 became the first outside party to offer its software under the quasi-open-source Microsoft Community License. However,...
More developers calling the shots in enterprise software use
That '60s revolutionary rhetoric has gotten an IT industry spin because of the open-source movement, said experts speaking this week at the Open Source...
Australian uni’s Linux masterclass a first
Australia's Charles Sturt University will next month kick off the world's first certified masters degree in Linux, the open source computer operating system.
Link: The...
California “Disclosed Source Code” Voting Bill Submitted
California State Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach) has submitted bill AB 2097 to that state's assembly, which would require public source-code visibility of the...
Build Your Own Web-Based GPS Tracking System
Author: mdflynn
mdflynn writes "Having your own web-based mobile GPS tracking system doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Here's an Open Source solution,...
Why IBM passed on JBoss acquisition
IBM considered acquiring open-source Java middleware company JBoss, but chose to go a different route for the both financial and technical reasons, said Steve...
KDE and GNOME collaborating on free desktop promotion
Author: Tom Chance
A quiet revolution is taking place on a young mailing list, one that overturns years of false enmity and makes perfect sense...
New initiative aims to improve the quality of patents
Author: Jay Lyman
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in looking for ways to improve the quality of the patents it issues, has...
Linux boots on Sun’s Niagara chip
Dave Miller, the lead programmer for Linux on Sun Microsystems' Sparc processors, said on his blog Friday he has fired up the open-source operating...