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BEA pushing XML document effort [December 15, 2003]
BEA Systems on Monday plans to offer up to the Apache open source community its XML Beans technology for XML document management.
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Red Hat founder sees irony in SCO lawsuit [December 11, 2003]
Though the company he founded has been drawn into a legal dispute between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM Corp., former Red Hat
Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Young has not had much to say about the SCO dispute. At least, that was the case until
Wednesday, when Young published an open letter to SCO CEO Darl McBride criticizing him for his management of SCO and countering
McBride's recent claims that the open source community is attacking intellectual property laws in Europe and the U.S.
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Novell adds some muscle to OSDL [December 09, 2003]
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) on Tuesday gained a little more market influence to convince corporate users to adopt
Linux by announcing that Novell has joined the consortium to help drive both server and desktop initiatives.
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Microsoft battle with Lindows moves to Europe [December 09, 2003]
The trademark dispute between Linux-based software vendor Lindows.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. has moved to Europe where Lindows
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Robertson said he is on a tour this week meeting with resellers who have been caught
in the crossfire.
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GPL is no hippie dream [December 08, 2003]
Last Thursday, The SCO Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride posted an open letter on SCO's Web site arguing that
Linux backers were threatening to undermine the copyright protections provided in U.S. and European law. McBride's posting
was the latest in a series of public statements by SCO portraying the open-source operating system as a threat to the commercial
software industry and an enemy of intellectual property. "There is a group of software developers in the United States, and
other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress," McBride wrote.
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U.K. gov't considers Sun in open source software push [December 08, 2003]
LONDON -- The U.K. government has signed a five-year agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. to potentially offer the company's
new Java Desktop System (JDS) and Java Enterprise System (JES) software to public sector agencies as part of an overall open
source push.
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Court rules for IBM in preliminary SCO hearing [December 08, 2003]
A judge ruled in favor of IBM Corp. in two motions argued in a Utah district court Friday in its ongoing legal dispute with
The SCO Group Inc., a SCO spokesman confirmed.
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Red Hat focuses enterprise efforts with Advanced Server 3.0 [December 05, 2003]
It's been quite some time since Red Hat refreshed its enterprise server line, and the Linux world has changed significantly
since Red Hat released Advanced Server 2.1 nearly 18 months ago.
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Giving back to open source [December 05, 2003]
My Oct. 24 column, "Open Source Citizenship," attracted more than the usual amount of e-mail and Weblog commentary. Lots of
people are thinking about whether, and how, to coordinate in-house development with open source projects. Licensing, employment
agreements, open source culture, and government policy are some of the issues raised in the follow-on discussion.
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McBride letter continues SCO's Linux attack [December 04, 2003]
Continuing its war of words against the Linux community, The SCO Group Inc. on Wednesday accused free software advocates
of threatening the intellectual property protections provided by U.S. and European law.
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HP to expand Debian Linux support [December 04, 2003]
BANGALORE, India --In an effort to cater to vertical markets and customers who want customized applications that require changes
to the Linux kernel, Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to expand support offerings to customers who run the Debian Project's
version of the operating system.
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SuSE Linux, IBM launch software integration center [December 04, 2003]
Enterprises needing server software support from SuSE Linux AG running on IBM Corp. middleware can turn to a new software
integration center launched Thursday in Toronto by the two vendors.
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Sun drops out of Eclipse negotiations [December 03, 2003]
SAN FRANCISCO - Discussions aimed at merging Sun Microsystems Inc.'s NetBeans Java development framework with the IBM Corp.-backed
Eclipse group have broken down, Sun said on Wednesday. The news ends months of speculation about whether Sun, the company
that created Java, would join forces with IBM, one of Java's biggest supporters, and unify the two companies' efforts to create
a standard open-source development environment for Java.
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Linux kernel vulnerability is behind Debian attack [December 02, 2003]
A serious vulnerability in the Linux 2.4 kernel that allows users on a Linux machine to gain unlimited access privileges has
been discovered, according to a security advisory posted by developers of the noncommercial Debian Linux distribution.
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South Africa taps open source to boost local IT [December 01, 2003]
South Africa is working toward transforming itself into a software exporter by developing an open source software (OSS) industry.
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