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Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.
Plans for the next Linux kernel revealed
Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton last week revealed some of his plans for the next kernel version, a few days after the final release of Linux 2.6.20. Developers are currently revving up the development phase of the 2.6.21 kernel, with major additions planned for the next week or two, before beginning to lock down and stabilize the software. In a message to the kernel developers' mailing list, Morton indicated what some of the major new components will be in 2.6.21. One change will be improvements to the KVM virtualization system, which made its debut in 2.6.20, along with an implementation of paravirtualization.
FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement is no panacea
This week FSF Europe (FSFE) announced the release of its Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA), a form of copyright assignment in which a free software project can place its collective copyright under the control of a single organization or trustee. The agreement is designed to reduce the problems in managing copyrights in large projects, and to reconcile differences in copyright worldwide. However, exactly how important, useful, or necessary the FLA is depends upon whom you talk to in the free software community. To some extent, FSFE even seems to be operating contrary to the advice of the original Free Software Foundation in the United States.
Alterpoint CEO Scott Harmon: Time to Open Device Management
Network configuration management provider AlterPoint is a new member of the Open Management Consortium, offering both proprietary and licensed software. "Companies that do not build their software on top of open source will go the way of the dodo bird," said company CEO Scott Harmon. "I do not think you can afford to have a 100 percent proprietary product."
Datafox: Firefox Extension to monitor bandwidth usage on BSNL DataOne
A member of the Indian Broadband Forum, Brian Fernandes has released the first public release of a Mozilla Firefox browser extension which helps the customers of BSNL DataOne broadband connection to monitor their usage.
VBA project for OpenOffice to become open source
Instead of working on different solutions for getting VBA macros from Word, Excel & Co. to run in the free Office suite, Sun and Novell now want to merge their hitherto separate projects and enlist the help of the open-source community in developing the solutions further. Given that the two projects despite different approaches had to a great extent come up with the same or similar solutions, a suboptimal situation had emerged, the companies declared.
IBM delivers Linux desktop with Open Client
IBM is to launch its first official foray into the Linux desktop market with the launch of its Open Client offering for Linux and Windows.
New WLAN Linux driver by Intel without proprietary appendage
On the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) Intel developers have presented a reworked WLAN driver for the IPW3945 WLAN hardware, which is to be found in, among other devices, the up-to-date Centrino notebooks. Unlike the IPW3945 driver for the chips presented a little less than a year ago the new one functions on its own, hence no longer requires a proprietary program in user space.
Ten more Cape schools get Linux labs
Ten schools in the Northern Cape have been added to the list of over 200 schools using the Shuttleworth Foundations Linux-based tuXlabs through a sponsorship by Absa and Engen.
Linden Lab To Open Source Second Life Software
inden Lab®, creator of 3D virtual world Second Life® (www.secondlife.com), released the code of its Viewer application to the open source software development community. Developers can now access the source code to the Second Life end-user software in order to make modifications, enhancements and to add new features. The move marks Linden Lab’s continued commitment to building the Second Life Grid as an open, extensible platform for development, rather than a closed proprietary system.
Firefox Site Gets a Relaunch
On Monday, The Mozilla Corporation, which oversees the development of all things Firefox, is relaunching the Firefox add-ons community site. With the redesign, the organization hopes to enhance the ability of add-on developers to collaborate and test each other's creations.
Learn to Export Database Schema as XML in PHP
Sometimes it can be useful to have a dump of the current database schema. The script below reads the schema from a MySQL database and outputs XML that describes the schema.
'workaround' the Web the way you want it
With the recent Internet backbone problems and floods, accessing the Web became a problem for many of us. There are several reasons for this "inconvenience".
Sun likes what it sees in the new GPL
The question is which open-source license should govern the building of projects out of the company's technology crown jewels. The open-source Solaris project began with a Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), and open-source Java employs version 2 of the General Public License (GPL).
CLI Magic: Zip your files across the network with Woof
Transferring files from one computer to another on a network isn't always a straightforward task. Equipping networks with a file server is one way to simplify the process of exchanging files, but if you need a simpler yet efficient method, try Woof -- short for Web Offer One File. It's a small Python script that facilitates transfer of files across networks and only requires the recipient of the files have a Web browser.
Gran Paradiso Alpha 2 Released
Gran Paradiso Alpha 2, an early developer milestone aimed at testers and web application developers, has been released. This is the second milestone released from the Gecko 1.9 branch. There are no significant user interface changes. Core layout and rendering changes include support for the Web Applications 1.0 API for changing stylesheets, ACID2 test compliance, and improvements in the Cairo graphics layer. As mentioned earlier, Gran Paradiso the project codename for Firefox 3.
IBM aims to lower cost of using Linux, Apple PCs
IBM said on Sunday it will offer an open desktop software system for businesses that puts the cost of managing Apple or Linux computers on a more equal footing with Microsoft's Windows software, improving the economics of Windows alternatives.
FSM Newsletter 12th of February 2007
Welcome to Free Software Magazine’s fortnightly newsletter, keeping you up to date with all things free software! Enjoy!
This week at LWN: Bitfrost: the OLPC security model
The One Laptop Per Child platform was always going to present some interesting security challenges. Millions of identical, network-attached systems will be deployed into some remote parts of the world, where they will be managed by people who are not security experts. The systems will be obvious targets for theft, self-propagating malware, and the creation of botnets. None of these activities feature highly on the OLPC project's list of educational objectives, so it stands to reason that some significant thought needs to go into how to prevent them.
Article: How to Create an RSS Reader in PHP?
In this article we are going to discuss how to create a PHP-based RSS reader. It would be helpful if you know something about XML, but not really necessary. RSS documents have three main tags: Title, Link and Description. And they all do exactly what their names suggest. I will go into detail about these tags in my second article dealing with “building an RSS file.” For now, we will only focus on the “reading” part of the article.
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