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Weekly news wrap-up: Microsoft convicted of “piracy,” Red Hat lures customers from other distros

- By Grant Gross - We often think Microsoft's licensing cops go above and beyond what's practically necessary to stamp out software "piracy." Witness...

Commentary: Software lemon law with bitter taste

Author: JT Smith By Mikael Pawlo - What if your computer program vendor or developer could not limit his liability by using a shrink- or click-wrap...

AbiWord 1.0.1 quick look

Anonymous Reader writes: "Check out AbiWord 1.0.1! MozillaQuest Magazine (MozillaQuest.com) reports: "AbiWord 1.0.1 now is available for downloading. You can download the source code...

Report roasts Linux on mainframes

ZDNET has published its own version of a report on the "It's a nice place to visit..." study that says Linux is not mature...

Mandrake Linux community newsletter #42

This Week's Summary: Incident-based Support Packs at MandrakeStore; Latest MandrakeClub Activities; Business Case of the Week; Mandrake in the News; KDE3 Packages for 8.2...

Opening the desktop

At InfoWorld, Russ Pavlicek reiterates the advantages of the OpenCD projects (it was reported here at NewsForge first). He's glad Windows users will get...

AbiWord: 1.0 release fixes major reasons not to use it

- By Grant Gross - I haven't played with AbiWord since the versions that came loaded with Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2. Back then, one...

Microsoft’s file-share rule makes waves

C|Net News is reporting that "In late March, Microsoft published a document that outlines how third-party developers can use Common Internet File Sharing (CIFS)......

SuSE 8.0 Professional improves on an already good Linux distribution

- By Norbert Cartagena - I've been using Linux since late 1999. My first distribution was Macmillan Linux Mandrake 6.5. Though I hit some bumps...

Made to order: Three new books show the dumbing down of robot mind

- By Joab Jackson - When most people think of robots, they envision walking, talking mechanical humanoids along the lines of The Jetsons' domestic Rosey the...