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aKademy 2006 has been kicked off at the Trinity College in Dublin. The first two days consist of the contributors conference with a fully packed programme of presentations on aspects such as the community, KDE 4, cross-desktop collaboration and KDE & the Free Desktop in Asian countries.

SugarCRM Inc., provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, announced the beta release of Sugar 4.5, an AJAX-suported, fast-growing CRM solution. Sugar 4.5 introduces new functionality such as personalized views, internationalization and support for Microsoft Windows Server products.

Many of the top Linux developers announce their objections to the proposed GPL version 3 in a position paper. (Linux-Watch)

German governments and schools are beginning to consider open source technology

[And in other news, Indiana has apparently become a nation in its own right. - dcparris]

Novell revealed this week that it has received notification of possible delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange for delaying reporting of its financial results for the latest fiscal quarter. The firm also said it had received a default notice on a bond with its lender Wells Fargo. The company is appealing the Nasdaq notification and has denied the merit of Wells Fargo's default action.

With the achievements of the Philippine Open Source Initiative Project (POSITIVE), its three proponents are seeking to come up with a follow-up program to ensure long-term sustainability of POSITIVE, this time targeting Philippine companies to play a role.

Silicon Valley Veteran Drives Next Generation of Secure Messaging and Compliance Solutions

Google Inc. is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system as apossible prelude to running it alongside Linux in its massive global network of servers, according to sources.

Mozilla's new security chief won't say outright whether Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer.

[Not sure whether to laugh or cry here. Let's just hope she is more effective at Mozilla than she was at Microsoft. - dcparris]

Next generation of NOC Monkey introduces support for Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and licensing through proxy servers

[Appears to be non-libre. - dcparris]

The other day I was browsing WordPress Planet and noticed a link to 31 free WordPress themes from WordPress Diva. Of course, the "free" is as in beer, and the license requires that you display two links embedded in the theme "as long as the theme is in use." I don't mean to pick on Diva in particular, but I would like to illustrate why these sorts of "linkware" licenses, or licenses requiring reciprocal links, can be a bad idea.

The Chair of the openEHR Foundation has taken a few days to recharge and develop a thought or two on international standards in health informatics. This is well worth reading and thinking about.

This year at aKademy 2006 there will be a BoF section to discuss KDE local groups.

[BoF - That's "Birds of a Feather" for those not in the know. - dcparris]

Brussels braces for the next battleIntellectual property lobbyists are warning that new plans to shake up Europe's policy on patents could put patentable software back on the menu, as well as upping legal fees and putting small businesses in jeopardy.

[Call to arms, anyone? - dcparris]

Andrew Morton [interview] posted his patch queue with numerous comments about merge plans into the mainline kernel. Among his comments he noted that he would not yet be merging the Reiser4 filesystem [story], "reiser4. I was planning on merging this, but the batch_write/writev problem might wreck things, and I don't think the patches arising from my recent partial review have come through yet. So it's looking more like 2.6.20."A large discussion followed Andrew's posting that focused on the current kernel development process [story].

HP has issued an update for firefox. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting, phishing, and HTTP response smuggling attacks, or compromise a user's system.

Following in Firefox's footsteps, the next version of OpenOffice.org will support plug-in extensions to attract developers to the open-source productivity suite.

I've just got to get in on some of this grant stuff. You know, grants for projects like the $1,000,000 payout for a Virtual Reality Spray Paint Simulator System to Pine Technical College or the $2,000,000 for the Virginia Community College System web portal.

Distributed development makes open source tick, but sometimes you just have to get people together in a room -- which is what the Linux Terminal Server Project did last weekend. Members of the project, and developers for several distributions, gathered in Clarkston, Michigan last weekend to plot the future of LTSP -- and it looks good.

The GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) draft process took a hit today when a number of prominent kernel developers released a position statement deriding the "dangers and problems" with the GPLv3.

[Well, this surely ought to start some, er, discussion. - dcparris]