Linux users no longer have an excuse to pirate MP3s, Sep 27, 2007

Online Retail giant Amazon.com has - as our Charlie D reported - surprised everyone with its MP3 store. So how would it work for a DRM-free Linux user?. It turns out that very well.

Some people still seem to find it a mystery how one can make money from open-source software. The answer is no further away than leading Linux company Red Hat, which announced outstanding financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2007.

Linspire, the company behind the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, has announced the immediate availability of its first commercial paid support offerings for Freespire 2.0 users.

... we have unwittingly neglected to honor the terms of the GPL which requires us to obtain permission from the copyright holders of any software component for which we have modified the code in order to deliver our product.

After the International Organization for Standardization voted to reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as a standard, the detailed results from ISO member countries give us a lot of material to analyze.

Italy-based KDev has used Linux to build a cellphone-to-web gateway device aimed at letting users easily and instantly upload camera-phone photos to the web. The FoxBox MMS integrates a GSM/GPRS cellular modem card, and accepts photos sent via multimedia messaging service (MMS).

Novell Inc.'s Linux business has soared 243% since last November, when the company signed its controversial deal with Microsoft Corp.

A user or sysadmin posts about problems with a brand new Vista PC on a support forum. Within minutes, a "helpful" soul suggests a fix: "Install Linux!"

Not long ago I blogged about fitting Linux onto an older system and giving it to someone who doesn’t need the latest model of PC. This week, I tried it with a notebook that’s about seven or eight years old. Windows XP barely ran. Linux gave it a new lease on life.

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