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Medsphere Corporation, which claims to be 'the leading supplier of open source software for the healthcare industry' recentlysued its founders, the Shreeve brothers, for releasing company software as Open Source on Sourceforge. The key argument in the lawsuit is whether the Shreeves informed Medsphere CEO Ken Kizer that they intended to release code on sourceforge before doing so. I haveproof that Ken Kizer was informed of the release. Further I have confirmed that Medsphere appears to be suing anyone who downloaded the code from SourceForge for racketeering. I am releasing this information only afterEric Raymond and I have attempted to reach a peaceful resolution with Medsphere.

D-Bus 1.0 ("Blue Bird"), the Freedesktop.org inter-process messaging system has just been released. A collaborative effort between industry and open source developers, D-Bus was created to allow arbitrary applications to easily communicate with each other and exchange data. An additional system daemon allows for communication with system services. D-Bus is known to work on all Unix platforms and has also been ported to Mac OS X, while a Windows port is in progress. This makes D-Bus the ideal messaging system for KDE 4.

Jeff Jarvis is looking for better stewards of journalism's future. He explains, "I don’t see enough development going on in new news efforts — enough to save journalism from the sinking news business. And that’s what’s troubling me. The old players are proving to be quite ineffective stewards — we knew that — but there aren’t enough new stewards joining the church." Problem is, you can't make a new business out of an old business that's turned into a church. Wall Street isn't up for that, and most of the big papers work for Wall Street. The word "stewardship" alone is a boat anchor on any company's stock price.

I've been using PC-BSD for approx. 10 Months so I've had enough time to see what life throws at me with it. My first install was 1.0 Release Canadate (RC) 1 and I currently run PC-BSD 1.2 (the current release) on my laptop and have a beta version of 1.3 installed on my desktop for testing. This will cover PC-BSD 1.2 and PC-BSD in general.

The NetBSD project has released a complete live CD with automatic hardware detection and an option to boot into a graphical desktop with KDE. Called NetBSD Live! 2007, the CD image is available for the i386 processor architectures: "This CD-ROM contains a specially constructed version of NetBSD 4.0_BETA sporting a modified kernel based on NetBSD-CURRENT.

A new version of Mono is out, and it rocks. In response to all those haters, Novell opens its legal books to GPL pundits. Novell gets $350 million dollars of love from MS, Java is going to be released under the GPL, and Adobe donates a heck of a lot of code to the Mozilla foundation. Not to be outdone, Google commits to an annual donation of cold hard cash to the Samba project.

Microsoft Windows is heavily relying on Linux for their high traffic services.

A recent interview with Izumi Kawanishi, head of the Software Platform division of SCEI, shed some new details on the PlayStation 3.

Many organisations use methods to keep a standard look and feel to their computer desktops, with branding, logos, default company websites as home pages and various rights and privilege settings. These "manageable computer desktops" have always been fairly easy to roll-out company-wide, and if any changes were made in a session, they are wiped when the next user logs on.

There are those in the Linux world who think Microsoft's long-term plan is to keep tabs on and control of a strong competitor -- Suse's Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is seriously good. Linux Web forums have been awash with outraged users denouncing Novell for making a deal with the devil.

Today I read Andy McCue's post on,"Why the Linux desktop dream is over" and "Stephen O'Grady's "Do Operating Systems Matter: Part 1 " and Jonathan Schwartz's post on Network Clients and it becomes clear to me the eventual direction of desktop computing.

An updated version of Ubuntu Christian Edition has been released: "We have just released Ubuntu CE v1.5! With this release we focused on the fixing some issues with the live CD installer. We have also made a subtle, but very important change to the Ubuntu CE installer, upgrade_me script, Convert_me script, Web Content Filtering Only script, and the DansGuardian GUI Only script. The Configure Parental Controls GUI has been updated to include a few new features.

Version 0.9.25 of Wine got released. It contains the usual bugfixes and a number of improvements. For players of WoW the most noticeable one is that they won't need special OpenGL patches anymore for running it correctly in OpenGL mode. The game should work correctly out of the box.

Reports and resources for running Linux on a notebook or laptop computer.

In the past couple years the Web hosting industry has seen a resurgence of virtual private servers, particularly because they provide a level of customization that cannot be fulfilled by a shared hosting solution. As a result, Web hosts are continually enhancing their VPS offerings to ensure that they meet the changing needs of their customers.

The IMIA General Assembly approved on 10 November 2006 the establishment of an annual award by the IMIA Open Source Health Informatics Working Group (OSWG). The inaugural award will be made at the AMIA OSWG meeting on 13 November in Washington DC. The IMIA General Assembly also finally ratified the proposal for the IMIA OSWG to co-sponsor the Annual Linux Medical News Award. Final bit of breaking news for those who like to plan ahead - the medinfo2010 conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.

Gaim ist ein freies Multi-Messenger-Tool, das es Ihnen ermöglicht, sich mit folgenden Systemen zu verbinden: AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu und Zephyr. Das Programm ist kostenlos und einen Blick wert - zumal es mit einer Fülle von Add-Ons in seinen Funktionen mächtig aufgewertet werden kann.

The Fedora Project is in one of those relatively rare periods where the deadlines have passed, the distribution has been shipped, and no new deadlines have yet been set. Now is the time when participants in the project can engage in a bit of introspection, and that's exactly what is going on. Over the next week or so, decisions will be made which could significantly change the way this project works.

Novell SUSE Linux project manager Andreas Jaeger announced Friday that his team has released OpenSUSE 10.2 beta 2. The release includes "a large number of enhancements and updates by the open source community and Novell's development teams," Jaeger said.

Sun Microsystems' move to "GPL" Java makes it the last of a number of companies to go to a hybrid licensing mode. The Santa Clara, Calif., company will continue to offer its Java technologies under their current license, but is adding the GNU General Public License as an option. That is the current GPL 2 license, not the controversial GPL 3, although that option is apparently under consideration, sources said.