Clark Campaign Going Open Source, Dec 25, 2003

Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark is looking for a few good programmers, designers and technical writers.

Clark's technology team announced Monday the launch of Clark TechCorps, an initiative to build a suite of free, open-source applications for campaigns and elections.

Microsoft's recent decision to pursue a royalty-bearing licensing strategy, which includes its internally developed FAT Allocation Table (FAT) file system, is stirring up new theories in the technology world.

Where many industry watchers applauded the move by the world's largest software company to open up its intellectual property, others saw it as a move to put a stumbling block in the way of Linux, the open source operating system whose growth threatens the dominance of Windows.

Things augured well for the adoption of the Linux operating system even before the year had begun, with Red Hat moving into profit for the first time, fuelled by strong demand from the enterprise.

But while the corporate world was beginning to rally round the platform, MandrakeSoft, vendor of one of the most user-friendly distributions, filed for the French equivalent of Chapter 11-style bankruptcy protection.

Even worse followed shortly, when speculation that a company called SCO had hired a high profile lawyer to look into revenue opportunities from its Unix IP turned out to be entirely true.

iRiver has been trying to satisfy the customers by improving their products without changing the hardware component. Therefore even the customers who bought the iRiver products few months or even years ago can benefit the newest technologies without paying a single penny. The OGG Vorbis firmware is available for iFP-300/500 series as of today, December 24, 2003. The introduced firmware is the Manager version and the UMS and iMP series firmware will be available in January 2004.

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