Sun tiptoes into GPLv3, Nov 16, 2007

Sun Microsystems will release its xVM Ops Center virtualisation management application under the General Public Licence version 3 (GPLv3), the company revealed at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

Palm will not ship its next-generation smartphone until the end of next year, chief executive Ed Colligan said in an earnings call this week.

Linux needs to recognize Microsoft's leadership in some areas to better itself, Jim Zemlin, executive director for the Linux Foundation told delegates at the Linuxworld tradeshow in San Fransisco.

Intel and the One Laptop per Child project have unveiled a partnership that ends the long standing rivalry between the low cost notebook project and the chipmaker.

The third version of the General Public Licence (GPLv3) has been adopted by 116 open source projects in its first week of operation, according to an overview compiled by software risk management firm Palamida.

The Free Software Foundation plans to release the final version of the General Public Licence version 3 (GPLv3) on Friday 29 June.

The Linux Foundation has formed a "Green Linux" initiative that will focus on reducing the open source operating system's power consumption.

SCO was projecting that revenues of its SCOsource licenses for Linux would generate billions of dollars in revenues for the company, chief executive Darl McBride testified in a deposition on 27 March 2007.

Red Hat will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if it is based entirely on open standards, the company's executive vice president of engineering Paul Cormier told vnunet.com.

Red Hat is preparing to release a new "Red Hat Global Desktop" that over time will grow into an online desktop that integrates online services into a client desktop platform. The platform will allow users to access online and local data in a unified way.

Linux by comparison has never been found guilty of any patent infringements "making Linux a patent-tax-free alternative to Windows".

Intel's Classmate PCs currently shipping in Brazil and Mexico all run Windows despite buyers having the option of running Linux, according to an Intel spokeswoman.

Intel has unveiled a new solid state hard drive based on Flash memory that aims to provide a low cost alternative to mechanical hard drives.

Microsoft is to form a partnership with Red Hat to improve the interoperability of Windows and Linux, according to Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards.

Novell is attempting to take the wind out of Microsoft's upcoming launch of Windows Vista by offering its SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 as an alternative.

Cisco is violating the terms of the general public licence (GPL) with one of its iPhone models, according to an open source developer.

Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday.

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has dismissed Microsoft's patent pledge to open source developers as meaningless and warned that it could provide a false sense of security.

Novell has partnered with the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) to ensure that its partnership with Microsoft doesn't violate any terms of the General Public Licence.

The patent cross licensing deal that Microsoft and Novell unveiled last Thursday will be incompatible with the GPL3 license and is likely incompatible with the current GPL2 license, alleged Eben Moglen, a law professor and open source activist.