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McAfee warned that license terms governing open source software "may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our products."

The second version of the Free Software mobile phone OpenMoko "Neo FreeRunner" has been announced and will be on display at the CES in Vegas next week.

Patents are making trouble again. This time the upcoming wireless network standard 802.11n is the victim, its finalisation potentially blocked because of a patent held by an Australian research institution.

"The Chaos Computer Club has submitted to the German Federal Constitutional Court a 54-page expert opinion detailing serious flaws in the voting computers manufactured by the Dutch company Nedap,..."

[Looks like they have the same problems we have with our voting machines, closed source and hackable. - Scott]

Cryptography and cybersecurity guru Bruce Schneier discusses microsoft's motivation to build DRM into windows vista. Short quote: "Microsoft put all those functionality-crippling features into Vista because it wants to own the entertainment industry."

"Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU General Public License Version 3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK."

Austin Gatt is a lawyer, member of Malta's Nationalist Party and currently the country's Minister for Investments, Industry and IT. He hasn't got a clue about software. That doesn't stop him making clueless remarks about Free Software in order to diss a competing party. Not lxer material normally, but keep your friends close...

VirtualBox is a virtual PC environment not unlike VMWare. It runs on Windows and Linux and supports a wide range of guest operating system. And the best, it's just been released under the GPL. There's no need to run non-free VMWare anymore.

Bruce Perens of Debian and OSI fame has written an open letter to Novell concerning their agreement with Microsoft.

Shocking portrayal of a Free Software project getting harrased with copyright infringement, wrongfully awarded patents and the frivolous lawsuits that usually come along with these kind of things. I was shocked when I read this, an absolute scandal.

"PIRACY statistics are labelled "self-serving hyperbole" in a draft government report."

"Sigh. And so it continues. I'm actually tired of reading "reviews" like this."

Dave Jones, RedHat developer, writes an interesting rebuttal to a review of Fedora Core 6. Well worth a read for everyone who doesn't understand why so many GNU/Linux distros don't support things like mp3 and certain wifi chipsets out of the box.

"There's been quite a flurry in the blogosphere in the last couple of days over this and it's clear that a lot of people aren't really looking at this from the right angle."

I spotted a couple of strange things in today's distrowatch.com news column.

Police and criminal prosecutors have been cooperating very closely with the GVU, sort of a German counterpart of the RIAA/MPAA/BSA, investigating illegal p2p-filesharing. A German appeals court has upheld a sentence, declaring parts of that cooperation illegal.

Heise, publisher of Germany's best computer magazine c't, and the Linux-Verband are setting up an on-line database of businesses related to FLOSS in Germany. Every FLOSS-related business can post an entry for free.

DE: Aktueller deutscher Artikel ueber das Muenchner LiMux-Projekt.

EN: Recent article written in German, reporting about Munich's city council's LiMux project. LiMux is a project to migrate virtually all PC IT kit to GNU/Linux, including desktops.

A journalist gives her precious advice to GNU/Linux distributors: "Convert your distros into ms windows or mac os, then it'll sell and I'll buy it. I don't care about freedom anyway, it's just that using ms s/w is uncool. I'd rather be in chains than be uncool. Penguins are so cute they must be cool. Otherwise, I don't have a clue."

Excellent paper (pdf) by Prof. Edward E. Felten of Princeton University about the technical backgrounds of Network Neutrality. A must-read for everyone who cares about Network Neutrality, even when you are not a networking guru. Ready to digg at: http://digg.com/politics/Nuts_and_Bolts_of_Network_Neutralit...

Last week, Dale Frantz, CIO at Auto Warehousing Co., brought to [..] attention an alarming business practice that shows Microsoft at its shoddy and arrogant worst.

[This is a must read. Remember what I said about Microsoft being an economic terrorist? - dcparris]