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OSDL, Oregon Launch Open Technology Incubator

A center for "open technology" startups will open in a Portland, Ore. suburb on February 1, the OSDL has announced. Funded by the City...

National ISP Offers Firefox to Customers

The Mozilla Foundations popular open-source Web browser Firefox took another step forward in mainstream acceptance with the announcement that Speakeasy, a Seattle-based national broadband...

SCOs Small Victory Will Only Delay Its Defeat

Now that SCO has finally won one, should you be any more concerned about using Linux than before?No, I dont think so.As John Ferrell,...

A Linux Geek Embraces Mac OS X

Ive always wanted a Mac. There, I said it. Im out of my Mac closet. Ive secretly longed for one but could never really...

Analysts: Suns Open Solaris Plans Face Problems

On Tuesday, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce that it will be using its newly minted Common Development and Distribution License open-source license for its...

Sun Touts Value of Solaris 10 Code Under New License

Sun Microsystems Inc. officially ended weeks of speculation Tuesday by announcing that it will use its recently approved CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License)...

Did Microsoft Block Free Software from Licensing Scheme?

One of Microsoft Corp.s most vocal opponents on Tuesday accused the company of blocking Linux, Samba and other major open-source projects from taking part...

Novell Commits to Windows Evolution

Novell has committed to developing a Windows version of the open-source Evolution e-mail client. No time frame has been announced for the release of...

Defending Open Source

IBM, again playing its role as the "friendly giant"of the open-source community, recently granted access to 500 software patents to any project that releases...

Open-Source Java Under Consideration

Now that the open source initiative has approved Sun Microsystems Inc.s Common Development and Distribution License, which paves the way for the company to...