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Computerworld UK: "It seems appropriate that Sweden, the original home of MySQL, should be part of the ancient Norse territories, for the MySQL open/closed code story is threatening to turn into a saga as long and as complex as Njal's "


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Between The Lines: "Unless Linus decides to change his mind and move Linux to GPLv3, our favorite kernel is likely be left behind. You got that right people--Free Software Civil War "


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Editor's Note: Billionaires? Who needs 'em? It's more important to look for independent software vendors and attract them to Linux.


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LinuxDevices: "In an opinion piece for Embedded.com, Green Hills Software CEO Dan O'Dowd has resumed his crusade against embedded Linux--with a new twist "


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451 CAOS Theory: "Earlier this week Silicon.com's Naked CIO posted an article in which the anonymous chief information officer asked the question 'Is open source dead ?'"


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Ars Technica: "During that time we've seen community fragmentation and frustration resulting from Sun's heavy involvement with the office suite's development, and even a third-party online version that provides editing and collaboration features "


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Phoronix: "In our article earlier this week looking at the status of X.Org 7.4, one of the features originally planned for integration in this X Server release was MPX, or Multi-Pointer X "


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Socialized Software: "I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license "


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dot.life: "What's the most valuable piece of web software you use every day? Your web browser, surely. So whoever makes the browser which dominates the market should also make riches beyond the dreams of avarice--shouldn't they ?"


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Washington Post/PC World: "Unfortunately, however, the one feature that I was really looking forward to on the Windows side--compatibility with the Office 2007 XML file formats--could still clearly use a lot of work "


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Groklaw: "Harald Welte, as part of the gpl-violations.org project, brought the matter to court in Germany back in February of 2007, seeking to enforce the GPL against Skype "


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iTnews: "Researchers have developed file sharing software that doubles peer-to-peer transfer speeds by identifying nearby computers "


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Linux.com: "Attila Craciun, a Romanian software developer and Linux enthusiast, has ported the Slackware tree to the AMD64 architecture to create the Bluewhite64 distro. We spoke with him to find out about Bluewhite64, where it came from, and where it's going "


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OStatic: "JavaFX is, in Sun's eyes at least, designed to usher in Rich Internet Applications such as rendering multiple high-definition movies concurrently, and rendering and tagging many photos at once "


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Raiden's Realm: "One of the most prized rights of any American is the right to privacy and security. It's something people in some countries would kill for "



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There's an interesting four page PDF file that appeared recently on the Microsoft downloads site titled Open Source at Microsoft CodeBox: Bringing the Open Source Approach In-House It answers the question: Could the community and collaborative concepts that underlie open source projects


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If anyone was interested in a great Google App Engine project, I would love to see a community blog/speaker registration tool. Jeff Rush mentioned something like this a couple of PyCons ago, but now there is the technology available for free with



Updated: Sat May 10 23:55:01 2008


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