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Novell and Microsoft Collaborate II

The dust still hasn't settled, but this is a story everyone is keeping a close eye on.  A few quick updates on my original posting.  First, as you may have guessed, the general community reaction has been mostly negative.  I'd guess that's a natural

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Responses from around the Linux Community

Here are some responses from around the Linux community on the recent Novell deal with Microsoft. Eben Moglen thinks the deal may actually violate the GPL: It's possible that Thursday's deal between Microsoft and Novell could conflict with a provision in the General Public License (GPL)

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CentOS: Oracle Linux Doesn't Measure Up

An interesting Q&A with the CentOS team about their thoughts on Unbreakable Linux.  From the article: "Oracle [has] seen what has been achieved by projects such as CentOS, and [has] effectively copied the idea, as they are entitled to under the GPL," said Lance Davis, one

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Novell and Microsoft Collaborate

As if the recent Oracle Red Hat talk wasn't interesting enough, Novell today announced that they will be collaborating with Microsoft.  While some people seem to think this may have been a reaction to the Oracle announcement, I can't see any way this was thrown together

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ACCESS to Release Open Source Application Framework

ACCESS has announced it plans to release an Application Framework to the open source community under Mozilla Public License (MPL) v1.1. Security features that extend the Linux kernel are planned for release under the General Public License (GPL) v2. The Framework will be released before the end of the

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Oracle and Unbreakable Linux III

This is turning out to be a hotter topic than I had anticipated, so I figured I post some additional thoughts I have.  First, I'll expand on some comments I made in previous posts.  Looking at the numbers it seems that Oracle accounts for about 15% of the

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Oracle and Unbreakable Linux II

I'm back from LWE UK and have had some more time to think about this.   First, I still think Novell was the biggest loser here, not Red Hat.  As Unbreakable Linux is basically a RHEL clone, it has further validated RHEL as the Enterprise "standard".  I

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Oracle and Unbreakable Linux

Looks like some of the recent rumors were at least partially true.  While Oracle is not going to release their own distribution, they are going to be offering support for RHEL. From the article: I'm here at Oracle "Open" World, and am a bit shocked by

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Final LinuxWorld UK Reminder

A final reminder that LQ will be in the .Org Village at the upcoming LinuxWorld UK.  If you'll be anywhere near London on the 25th or 26th, make sure to stop into Olympia 2 and say hello.  My plane leaves in a couple hours, but I don'

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Why Has Microsoft Abandoned the Power User?

That's the questions posed by Preston Gralla in this editorial.  From the post: The upcoming final releases of Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 make one thing exceedingly clear: Microsoft has abandoned the power user, allowing fewer and fewer customizations and tweaks. By doing this, they’re leaving

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The truth about the SCOX/EV1 SCOsource deal

For the first time in a long time, we have multiple SCO stories in the same month.  Groklaw now has the gory details on how the SCOsource deal with EV1 went down.  Here's the full (PDF) declaration from EV1 CEO Robert Marsh.  It's clear that he

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Flash 9 Linux Beta Is Live II

A follow up to this post.  I have installed Flash 9.0 d55 (Firefox 1.5.0.7 for those keeping score) and tested it for a little while.  I tried both sites that worked fine for me using Flash 7, and some sites that did not work for me

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IE7 Final Released

About 18 months after it was announced, IE7 is now available for download.  It looks like it will be rolled out via automatic update "real soon now".  I wasn't going to blog about this, but changed my mind for a couple reasons.  First, it impacts LQ.

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Flash 9 Linux Beta Is Live

I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but a publicly available beta of Flash 9 for Linux is now available.  Kudos to the Adobe Linux Flash team for the hard work.  From the linked blog post: While we are still working out exactly how to

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McAfee, Symantec Think Vista Unfair: Update

A follow up to this post.  It looks like Microsoft has done an about-face, and will allow kernel level access in Vista.  From the article: Microsoft Now Decides to Accept Outside Security for Vista Until now, Microsoft had planned to block those companies from installing their products in the deepest

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The Microsoft Exec Exodus Continues

A continuation of the trend I've covered before, the Microsoft exec exodus just keeps rolling on.  The latest two casualties are Rick Devenuti, chief of Microsoft's fledgling managed services operation and Jurgen Gallmann, CEO of Microsoft Deutschland.  Once again the hits are fairly severe.  Microsoft Deutschland

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LQ Job Marketplace Update

A couple months ago, we announced the LQ Job Marketplace.  We knew a huge talent pool existed in the LQ membership, and we wanted to connect those talented members with people with quality Linux, Open Source and Programming jobs.  So far it's been a success.  Here's

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Libya Purchases 1.2M OLPC Laptops

A quick follow up to recent OLPC post, it appears that the initiative has secured its first purchaser.  Libya has agreed to provide each and every one of its school children with a laptop.  From the article: The government of Libya is reported to have agreed to provide its 1.

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Microsoft Shown Involved with Baystar and SCO

Amazing how long we go between SCO stories these days, isn't it?  From the Groklaw article: On page 21 in IBM's Amended Redacted Memorandum in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's Interference Claims (SCO's Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Causes

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Making sense of the One Laptop Per Child proprietary software row

There is currently a debate going between Theo de Raadt and a Red Hat employee about the OLPC choice to use a network driver that does not have open specs available.  From the article: Theo de Raadt, the leader of the OpenBSD project and a vociferous crusader for hardware (especially

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Oracle To Bring Siebel CRM To Linux

Furthering its commitment to Linux, Oracle has announced that the newest version of Siebel CRM will support Linux.  From the article: The independent Siebel Systems, bought by  Oracle for over $5 billion last year, had not pledged to support Linux. It had, however, worked with IBM to ensure that Siebel

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Microsoft on warding off the Linux threat

Wow.  The hubris in this ZDNet interview is astounding.  While some people at Microsoft are certainly adapting to a shifting business landscape, Nick McGrath, Microsoft's head of platform strategy in the UK, is a shining example of what is wrong with the Microsoft corporate culture.  Reading the interviews

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The Truth About a Claimed Firefox Exploit

I'm sure most of you heard about the recent Firefox security issue.  The one claiming Firefox is "critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript" and that over 30 unreleased vulnerabilities exist.  It turns out, the whole thing was a hoax.  That's right, a

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McAfee, Symantec Think Vista Unfair

It seems that both McAfee and Symantec are unhappy with some of the new security features in Vista.  McAfee has gone as far as taking out a full page ad in the Financial Times.  The issue at hand is PatchGuard, which Microsoft describes as a facility that protects the operating

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Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process

A follow up to this post, Linus recently commented further on the GPLv3 issue.  From the article: At the same time, he suggests that his opposition may have been distorted or exaggerated. "GPLv3 is not 'evil,'" he says. "It just doesn't stand up