Nearly 54 months ago, when the SCO Group launched its legal action against IBM, there were a number of cheerleaders - both SCO personnel and…
Sunday, 12 August 2007 07:16

SCO falls flat on its face

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The SCO Group may face financial ruin after a ruling in the US that it does not own the IP rights to UNIX. Novell has…
Wednesday, 08 August 2007 04:28

Ubuntu loses a disciple

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Over the past year and a bit, at least two Linux distributions which were based on Debian GNU/Linux have stated that they will be switching…
Microsoft has begun to talk about open source again. Sure, atheists sometimes do talk about God.
Monday, 30 July 2007 06:34

OpenBSD looks for funds

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The OpenBSD project is likely to be able to take on new challenges once its sister organisation, the OpenBSD Foundation, set up last week, gets…
In early 1996, Theo de Raadt, now well known as the head of the OpenBSD project, started to get an inkling that he was being…
Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:15

Ubuntu lives in a closed system

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Ten days into July, Canonical, the company which is best known for the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released the source code for one component of Launchpad…
It's tax time in Australia. Three weeks into the new financial year, now is about the time when people have all their documentation ready to…
The last time I looked at Slackware was nearly seven years ago; version 7.1 was thrown my way by a magazine and I was asked…
Monday, 16 July 2007 06:02

GPL: fear is the key

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The third revision of the General Public Licence has been out for just short of three weeks but plenty of people are already questioning why…

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