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A lengthy debate that began with a suggestion to dual license the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 and the GPLv3 continues on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Throughout the ongoing thread Linux creator Linus Torvalds has spoken out on the GPLv2, the upcoming GPLv3, the BSD license, Tivo, the Free Software Foundation, and much more.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 05:27:33 07/06/08

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Open Source infighting over the GPLv3 just turned nastier - in a post on the Linux kernel mailing list , Linus ...
"Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics - the latest sign of a growing schism in the open source community between business-minded developers like Torvalds and free software purists."
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Publish date - 14:13:04 07/04/08

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Recent Original Stories
Open Source infighting over the GPLv3 just turned nastier - in a post on the Linux kernel mailing list , Linus Torvalds effectively called the authors of the GPLv3 'hypocritical morons' . InformationWeek has reported on the issue : "Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and ...
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 09:09:16 07/04/08

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Recent Original Stories
Kimmo Kinnunen wrote yesterday on the GTK+-WebCore developer mailing list that he has imported the Safari 2.0 WebCore branch into GTK+-WebCore. "This means that from the webcore/javascriptcore part, the code is mostly the same as in current Safari.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 13:13:11 07/05/08

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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Jul 2006 16:47 UTC, submitted by anonymous
From the beginning, Eclipse included tight integration with the Concurrent Versions System in order to provide access to change-management capabilities. Now, many projects - notably those run by the Apache Software Foundation - are using a different change-management system: Subversion.
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 01:09:36 07/06/08

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Recent Original Stories
Greg Kroah-Hartman's announcement for free Linux driver development included the necesssary legal framework to honor NDAs when creating GPL'd drivers.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 11:13:15 07/06/08

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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Mar 2007 13:00 UTC
The third discussion draft of GPL version 3 is scheduled for release at 7 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, Brett Smith, a licensing compliance engineer for the Free Software Foundation said in a mailing list posting Monday.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 02:12:54 07/02/08

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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Oct 2007 16:16 UTC, submitted by ParaFan
A thread on the OpenBSD -misc mailing list began by discussing whether or not XEN had been ported to OpenBSD, "is it planned at some point to release a paravirtualized xen kernel for OpenBSD 4.3 or 4.4?"
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 06:57:03 07/03/08

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Review: SOHO Organizer 7.0.2
For personal organization, Apple has focused on the basics with its Address Book and iCal programs, which are included with Mac OS X. These are fine light-duty programs, but they lack power for anything more than simple contact and calendar management. Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative that will appeal to business and power users for whom Apple's offerings ...
Read more News Source - Macworld.com via Yahoo! News
Publish date - 12:57:22 07/04/08

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My Take
Google Labs has released Picasa for Linux, ported using Wine by CodeWeavers . The free Picasa download is available now. : The software requirements are fairly hefty in that some features require cutting edge programs like HAL and a 2.6+ kernel, but this is fantastic news for Linux users.
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 11:25:58 07/03/08

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Recent Original Stories
The NetBSD project would like to thank all contributors for their generous response to the recent call for donations. In only one month, almost US $27K were donated allowing the NetBSD Foundation to purchase five new machines; three of those machines will be added to the nightly build infrastructure and two of those machines will become anonymous cvs servers.
Read more News Source - New Mobile Computing
Publish date - 19:58:15 07/04/08

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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 15th Apr 2007 20:11 UTC
"We're now more than a decade later than the moment when I judged the open source to have gained a decisive momentum - 1996-1997, when Slackware was the reference, Red Hat was 'the other choice', KDE and GNOME were just emerging, Walnut Creek was selling CD-ROMs, and SunSITE mirrors were the home of most of the relevant software.
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 13:11:07 07/03/08

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Review: SOHO Organizer 7.0.2
Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative to Apple's built-in that will appeal to business and power users
Read more News Source - Macworld
Publish date - 12:40:19 07/04/08

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Tax bills undergo makeover
Thousands of Allen County property owners with mortgages will soon find local tax bills in their mailboxes for the first time.
Read more News Source - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Publish date - 10:14:52 07/04/08

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