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In 2004-02, we posted 592 stories (security alerts were not counted). SCO, Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems were the big newsmakers in February. Click to find out who was in the news in February.
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Here are the biggest newsmakers of the month, along with the most interesting story posted about them during that time.
SCO: 71 stories
Press release (Feb 23, 2004 8:48 AM)
"The alliance focuses on providing Mardon clients' a complete selection of options and enhanced world-class solutions; such as nationwide placement of medical staff, medical forms acquisition, document imaging, financial management and leasing, targeted marketing and e-communications, and total system engineering and integration."
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GrokLaw (Feb 13, 2004 6:17 PM)
I saw some fine articles on copyright and patent law by Dennis S. Karjala, who is Jack E. Brown Professor of Law, at Arizona State University'sCollege of Law, and because this is his area of expertise, I asked him if he would explain for Groklaw's readers what issues there might be for programmers who see the leaked code even inadvertently and what the impact of this leak might be on Microsoft's code. He graciously agreed. Here is his explanation. Thank you, Professor Karjala.
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IBM: 46 stories
LXer (Feb 26, 2004 8:11 AM)
Here is the text of IBM's open letter to Sun.
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Local Tech Wire (Feb 11, 2004 9:49 AM)
Red Hat is providing Telefonica Deutschland with its Enterprise Linux as the German company’s platform of choice for business operations
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Sun: 32 stories
LXer (Feb 26, 2004 8:11 AM)
Here is the text of IBM's open letter to Sun.
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VNUNet (Feb 11, 2004 9:50 AM)
Linux customers should ignore SCO's legal threats until a court decision is reached in its copyright litigation with Novell, according to a paper published by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
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Dave Whitinger (Feb 9, 2004 8:47 PM)
Has Mozilla Firefox finally broken the speed and stability barriers in order to bring about a browser change to this long-time Galeon user? After all this time, Firefox finally won me over and caused me to change my regular web browser.
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Dave Whitinger (Feb 17, 2004 11:30 AM)
Normally I don't review very early test releases of software, but the
opportunity to test drive Fedora's first distribution based on the 2.6 kernel
was too irresistible to pass up.
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PHP: 20 stories
java.about.com (Feb 26, 2004 6:36 AM)
You can define your own constants for your PHP scripts, and refer to them by name. This makes it easy to write or maintain your code.
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SUSE: 20 stories
Holger Dyroff, SUSE (Feb 19, 2004 1:09 PM)
If your company is in North America, we want to know how SUSE LINUX makes your operations successful, and we'll give you an [sic] dual AMD Opteron-64 PC if you have a great story.
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GNU: 18 stories
Richard Stallman (Feb 17, 2004 3:45 PM)
If anyone has knowledge or evidence about who developed the virus, I hope he or she will come forth and make an accusation against specific people based on specific proof. But nobody should make accusations without proof, and there is no excuse for guilt by association. Not in New York, not in Cambridge, and not in the Free World.
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KDE: 16 stories
Mailing list (Feb 3, 2004 6:53 AM)
"KDE Project Ships New Major Release Of Leading Open Source Desktop Environment"
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Mailing list (Feb 24, 2004 1:42 PM)
Welcome to this year's eighth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community.
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Mailing list (Feb 12, 2004 9:00 AM)
Added the big ISDN update; Device Mapper update
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Mailing list (Feb 24, 2004 1:06 PM)
Due to requests from MandrakeClub members, MandrakeSoft is pleased to announce that ISO images of Mandrake Linux 9.2 for the AMD64 platform are now available as BitTorrent downloads to Silver level (and above) Club members.
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eWeek (Feb 21, 2004 8:23 AM)
eWeek reviews live Linux distributions, including Knoppix, Gentoo LiveCD and others.
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OSDL: 7 stories
VNUNet (Feb 11, 2004 9:50 AM)
Linux customers should ignore SCO's legal threats until a court decision is reached in its copyright litigation with Novell, according to a paper published by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
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Press release (Feb 23, 2004 10:06 AM)
CEE 3.1 Boasts New Comprehensive DevRocket Development Environment and Several Advanced Technical Features
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OS News - USA (Feb 10, 2004 3:10 PM)
Arch Linux is a great distro for the expert user who want a customized Linux installation without the hassle of hunting for packages and dependencies. Let's face it, the fun of Linux is tweaking and customizing not configure; make; make install. It's an extremely well done distribution that just plain works. In the week or so that I've been running it exclusively, I haven't run across any negatives.
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