Kernel release: 2.6.21.3, May 24, 2007

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Companies like Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said Tuesday.

Would you believe that, in 2007, there are people who still blame Linux for the lack of hardware vendors who advertise Linux support and who believe that the Bash project's evangelists are hurting Linux uptake? Look, if you're going to claim the GNU/Linux community is not grasping the average computer user, at least use some up-to-date arguments - not the tired old arguments from 1999.

Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday.

I got time with the Zonbu, a $99 Linux PC that is amazingly as simple to use as a Mac.

Eben Moglen, the law professor and open-source legal expert who has helped lead the revision of the General Public License, is predicting broad success for the upcoming new version.

The pact allows NASA's procurement department to select from HP desktops, workstations, blade PCs with Linux and Unix capabilities, servers, and printers, among other offerings.

First you get everyone riled claiming open source and Linux infringe on your patents, then you won't detail those patents. Why? The paperwork.

Sun Microsystems' Chief Open Source Officer, Simon Phipps, spoke on the issues of software patents, patent reform and Microsoft's claims that free and open-source software infringes the software company's patents. Phipps spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft.

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