Perens: Torvalds' patent pool is useless, Aug 12, 2005

Open source activist Bruce Perens has dismissed as inadequate a new IP initiative backed by Linus Torvalds. The Open Source Development Labs' (OSDL) patent commons project is intended to provide patent protection to open source developers.

Thousands of secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open-source software when they return to school in September.

While it remains one of the top providers of proprietary database and applications software in the world, Oracle this week made several moves to demonstrate that it is a major player in the Linux and open-source market.

Open-Xchange, whose server software has long been tightly tied to Novell's Suse Linux products, has released a version for Red Hat's operating system.

Nomad Press is a small, "fiercely independent" book publishing company based in Colorado. It's run by Deborah Robson, a writer, editor, knitter, and now, a Linux user.

An inexpensive house-brand 802.11b/g wireless router from Fry's (Outpost.com) has been adopted by a group of device hackers that aims to make Fry's "AirLink" devices as capable as name-brand gadgets.

Linux developers need to be wary of lawsuits, advocates warned, as well as the tactics of large software companies whose livelihood may be threatened by the growth of the upstart operating system.

Red Hat and HP are collaborating to bundle Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and other tools on HP blade servers for the first time.

Petra Heinrich, who spearheaded SUSE's much-respected channel program, has left Novell, the company confirmed Thursday.

A small Utah-based company has developed a portable Linux server that can be plugged into the USB (Universal Serial Bus) port of a Windows PCs.

 View older news this year: Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan
 View news from other years: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999