Peter Galli

The Free Software Foundation on Monday hit back at The SCO Groups calls for business users of Linux to pay for UnixWare licenses that would indemnify them against past copyright violations and allow them to use Linux in a run-time, binary format. Eben Moglen, a professor at Columbia Law School and general counsel for the […]

The SCO Group, which is suing IBM for more than $1 billion in a contract dispute, on Monday expanded its attack on Linux and is now claiming for the first time that Linux users are violating its Unix copyrights, particularly as SCO has now registered and received U.S. copyright for its Unix System V source […]

Linux and open-source software remain high on the list of core threats to Microsofts business going forward. In an analyst and press teleconference to discuss the Redmond software makers fourth-quarter and full fiscal 2003 financial results on Thursday, Microsofts chief financial officer John Connors outlined the five largest risks and drivers to Microsofts business going […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported an 11 percent rise in revenue to $8.07 billion for the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2003, compared with $7.25 billion in the same year-ago period. Operating income for the fourth quarter slipped some 23 percent to $2.19 billion as a result of $796 million in charges, mostly related to […]

LAS VEGAS—Computer Associates International Inc., which has pegged Tuesday as Linux Solution Day at its CA World conference here, is working on a range of new Linux deals, initiatives and products, including an upcoming formal partnership with Linux solution provider Ximian Inc. CA is also proposing its current Event Notification Facility (ENF) as a stand-alone […]

LAS VEGAS—A panel of Linux luminaries here predicted the demise of Unix over time, saying it would inevitably be replaced by Linux. At the Linux Solution Day here at Computer Associates International Inc.s panelists from Linux creator Linus Torvalds to SuSE Linux CTO Juergen Geck and Larry Augustin, the chairman of VA Software, all expressed […]

While a 2-year-old project to develop an open-source version of Microsoft Corp.s .Net Framework is making progress, its still a long way from prime time. The Mono Project incorporates key .Net-compliant components, including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime just-in-time compiler and a growing set of class libraries, including ASP.Net and ADO.Net. But officials […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—The contentious issue of the SCO Groups lawsuit against IBM and its claims that the Linux operating system is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, to which SCO owns the rights, reared its ugly head at the OReilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here on Wednesday. In a late afternoon panel discussion titled “The IP Wars: […]

PORTLAND—The use of open-source software is alive and well and growing among government agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau. In an address at the OReilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here on Thursday titled “Open Source in Government,” Lisa Wolfisch Nyman, a senior Internet technology architect at the Bureau, said the issue of open source and […]

PORTLAND—Open-source software has significantly affected Hewlett-Packards business, with its open source review board looking at between two and 10 new open-source and Linux products a week, Stormy Peters, who runs HPs open source program office, said in her keynote address here on Thursday. In a talk titled “The Business of Open Source in the Enterprise” […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—Linux is not going to take over the desktop space anytime soon, but is making significant headway in vertical markets, Mitch Kapor, the chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) and founder of Lotus Development Corp., said here on Thursday. “It has been a long march to the Linux desktop, and I am […]

PORTLAND—There has been an enormous paradigm shift around open source, Tim OReilly, president of OReilly & Associates Inc., said in a keynote address here on Wednesday. Addressing hundreds of attendees at the OReilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here, he said that the shift started when IBM introduced the first PC, with change in the PC […]