How Microsoft and Massachusetts Defused a Political Battle Over ODF, Dec 04, 2006

The topic of document formats may have an arcane air to it, but it matters deeply to the world’s richest software company.

The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) General Public Licence (GPL) is undergoing its biggest overhaul in 15 years and local members of the free software community are participating in the development process.

Investors fled SCO Group’s stock on Friday, voting with their feet after a federal judge gutted its lawsuit against IBM.

IBM, once a bastion of proprietary mainframe technology, says efforts to entice developers to create open source applications for servers based on its Power chip architecture are paying off as the number of Linux-on-Power programs has more than doubled over the past two years.

Birmingham City Council has defended its year-long trial of desktop Linux, claiming it to be a success, despite an independent report showing it would have been cheaper to install Windows XP.

SCO took big hits this week -- both in the courts, and in the stock market. Regardless of what SCO's management decides to do, the company's stockholders seem to have finally had enough of the troubled company.

Next year will be a big one for Linux, with new platforms and opportunities in the data center.

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