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IBM believes that it still owns any code it added to the AT&T Unix code for AIX. So IBM can remove and reuse that code in its own products, or even give it away to Linux. That's how "derivative works" function under copyright law, though the Unix license is a contract.

SSV Embedded Systems has begun bundling an eCos starter kit with its gumstick-sized DIL/NetPC DNP/5280. The kit targets deeply embedded applications requiring networking, such as industrial control and data acquisition.

The European Commission, the European Union's executive branch, has launched a Web site aimed at improving understanding of open-source software.

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.

Regarding Eric Raymond's recent open letter to Sun: 'I'd say this is 100 per cent rant... His simplistic accusations don't hold water... If this is the way that Open Source treats its friends, I'd hate to see how it treats its enemies.'

Other tech buyers, armed with a full Linux evaluation carried out in secret, might wring even bigger discounts from Microsoft, Bleasdale reasons. Or even better, he says, they might discover Linux to be irresistible. "Linux desktops simply work," Bleasdale says.

It's absolutely mind boggling that SCO would threaten legal action against Linux users when it hasn't yet won a single court battle over the legitimacy of its claim that the Linux operating system violates copyrighted code owned by SCO.

The two-day conference examines how open source software is changing markets around the world. It explores the legal, investment, vendor and customer risks and rewards of open source software. Speakers From Amazon, AT&T Wireless, Benchmark Capital, CA, Cooley Godward, EDS, Google, HP, IBM, Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Novell, Oracle, Sun, VERITAS, Wilson Sonsini, and More

Carol Leishman, Microsoft NZ’s communications manager, says the leak hasn’t compromised the security of computers and the company is treating the theft as an intellectual property infringement issue.

How will governments and large enterprises get their heads around the concept of open source software?

The latest Mozilla update, covering the releases of Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.5, and other news, is available for your perusal.

With Linux appearing more frequently in the press and on TV, people are becoming more curious about it. They are still reluctant to leave their comfortable Windows world, but they are curious. Enter LiveCD Linux -- a CD with a full Linux operating system that runs completely from the CD without the need to install anything on the hard drive. Taking ten people who never used Linux before and who have only basic computer skills, I set out to run several LiveCDs through some informal tests.

"I think some people have been confused by my letter," says Nathan Hand, whose truce proposal with The SCO Group has produced a flurry of discussion here at LinuxWorld.

The focus of this release is bug fixing and polishing.

The Mozilla Foundation and European Mozilla contributors today announced the launch of the http://www.mozilla-europe.org web site and the Mozilla Europe non-profit organization to promote, develop and help deploy Mozilla products in Europe. These products include the award-winning Mozilla 1.6 web browser.

Rescuing a ViewSonic Tablet from the junkpile by installing SuSE 9.0.

The United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) has been doomed to failure from the start. That may seem odd, given both the abundance of free and open source software and the apparent interest by the UN in making such tools available to the impoverished -- a combination that seems a no-brainer. But in spite of the alignment of resource, need, and interest, the WSIS plan will fail. Here's why.

Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5.1, the company's enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS), has also been certified for Silicon Graphics SGI Advanced Linux Environment software.

This week the newsletter features an interesting interview with a Gentoo developer, and diverse other news.

A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin which was not properly verifying user generated input could lead to a directory traversal attack.