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Software Patents and the Threat They Pose

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2008-02-12

The controversial issue of software patents reared its ugly head again last week when Bruce Perens cited them as one of the greatest threats to free and open-source software. In a blog post
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Microsoft to FSF: Our Position on GPLv3 Is Unchanged

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-08-29

Redmond has very little to say in response to the Free Software Foundation's comments about its obligations under GPLv3. "We are aware of the FSF's comments relating to the GPLv3
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Is Microsoft Negotiating to Buy Yahoo?

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-08-21

Is Microsoft negotiating to buy Yahoo? How big a competitive threat is Google? What is the biggest threat to IT at this point? These were all questions that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and
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Microsoft Updates Windows Live Hotmail

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-08-14

Microsoft has made a minor update to Windows Live Hotmail, the first since it launched the new service on May 7. Redmond started making the update available to customers this week in a rollout
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Is Microsoft Windows Vista Culpable?

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-08-10

Will Microsoft handle the release of Windows "7," the next version of the operating system, slated for 2010, a lot better than it did with Windows Vista? We can only hope that Microsoft will do a
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Palm Foleo to Be Built on Wind River Linux

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-08-06

Palm is hoping that its upcoming Foleo mobile companion will help establish a new category of personal-computing products, especially given its 2.5 pound weight, small size and five-hour
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Expect to see More—Well, a Little More—of Ray Ozzie

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-07-31

Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie spoke at the annual Financial Analyst Meeting last week, and he gave his clearest, and most comprehensive, explanation of the company's
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BMC Software and Its New Open-Source Projects

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-07-25

BMC Software has announced a new developer network, several open-source projects and its support of a single permissive license: the OSI-approved BSD license. The company used
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SugarCRM Embraces GPLv3

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-07-25

The next version of Sugar Community Edition will be licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 when it is made available later this year. The announcement was made by John Roberts,
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Microsoft and Red Hat: Talking About Not Talking

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-07-16

We may now have an answer to the question of whether Red Hat and Microsoft are talking about intellectual property and patents—they aren't—but that issue is far from dead.
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Microsoft's on-demand challenge

By Peter Galli | Posted: 2007-07-11

Some Microsoft partners are questioning how successful the software maker's hosting business will ultimately be if it doesn't also embrace other third-party solutions. While Microsoft is increasingly
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Microsoft vs. Salesforce: Let the Battle Begin