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What happens if you violate the GNU General Public License (GPL)? Historically, you'd earn the scorn of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the open source community, and you might have to disclose or rewrite some code. However, the intellectual property disclosure requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 may present an additional threat to companies that violate the GPL.

MEPIS founder Warren Woodford has announced upgrades for SimplyMEPIS 3.4. The upgrade packages, which are now available in the MEPIS apt source pool, enable SimplyMEPIS 3.4-x users to upgrade their systems to the latest SimplyMEPIS version, version 3.4-3.

A fledgling Internet-based tax preparation platform offering free software to tax preparers and an open source code to that software from which programmers could theoretically build other technologies key to the tax prep process, has attracted a handful of practitioner members and is discussing potential development opportunities with at least one of the tax prep industry’s top five software companies, according to the site’s founder, a CPA.

Despite the UK government's reluctance to embrace open source, Martin Brampton points out the many ways they're suited to each other - the least of which is cost.

The government regularly claims it will reduce the cost of administration through the use of IT. Such a claim is inherently implausible, given the sector's track record in IT projects. Quite apart from that, government appears to be going about things in entirely the wrong way.

From the "I'm a Microsoft shill journalist" department

SAN FRANCISCO -- Of all of the virtues that backers of open-source software tout, widespread availability of enterprise-level support is not among them.

In fact, a lack of support has been a drawback for most corporate IT decision-makers when they look to add open-source tools to their software stacks, said a panel of users and vendors at the Open Source Business Conference here last week.

The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in Europe.

Analysts predict that the $300 million open source database market is going to continue to grow rapidly. Forrester Research Inc.'s analyst Noel Yuhanna projects that mission-critical deployments of open source databases will increase by 20% this year. It is that growth that Yuhanna believes will drive the OSS database market from $300 million now to the $1 billion mark by 2008. Most importantly, analysts say, this segment is being taken seriously by proprietary database vendors attracted to making open source technology part of their own product offerings.

Who could be upset by a scheme that allows free use of software? Well, Gervase Markham has found one Trading Standards officer who is

Internet star Robin "roblimo" Miller recently wrote "Point & Click OpenOffice.org", a work explaining this suite's basics. The book is meant to be easy and instructive, so that any user can be proficient in OOo in just a few minutes.

The next version of GNOME will include a number of tools aimed at making it easier for administrators to deploy the Linux desktop environment in enterprises. GNOME 2.14, which is due for release on 15 March, will include new administrator tools such as a profile manager and an editor to lock down PC functionality, according to GNOME developer Davyd Madeley in an article posted on the project Web site at the end of last week.

As part of the drive to cut costs and future saving, Singapore Housing Development Board decided to migrate its business applications on the Internet and intranet to Linux as its strategic operating system.

I do a lot of audio manipulation (Old Time Radio, CD ripping, etc), and it's nice to see those apps run fast and stable!

KeyLabs Awards ATEN KVMs Gold Seal of Approval With Linux Compatibility Mark

  
A lot of people say, Linux doesn't break through because it lacks an equivalent of MS Outlook. But, in a forum post, I read, Kontact can do a lot of the tasks Outlook can. A bit later, I found on the KDE site, the German publisher Bomots offers a (German) book about "Kontact", KDE's Personal Information Manager (PIM). I decided, it's time to see if this book, "Kontact Kompact" by Andre Schreiber, is usefull for people looking for a 'replacement' of Outlook, and people willing to learn Kontact.

Comment(s) of the Day - February 21, 2006

cgagnon writes: Although not easily (my supposition based on information on the net...I don't do windows), php runs under windows and I would hazard a guess that the Mambo CMS would as well. So how is this deemed a GNU/Linux worm?

Then comes the next comment? Hmmm - PHP Version 1.x?

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Linux worm turns on Mambo and PHP

The Internet-era innovation has arrived for telephony. Asterisk delivers open-source telephony that runs on Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems. Asterisk guru Steve Davies gets us up and running with Asterisk in this excellent how-to.

FedoraNews.org reports on the 4th SCALE conference. Breaking news includes a report that Cinepaint will support photoshop plugins. Novell demonstrated Xgl ...

Microsoft's latest rebuff to the European commission's monopoly ruling threatens values at the heart of democracy, critics say. David Gow reports

A new front opened in the six-year war between Microsoft and the European commission last week. The endgame is uncertain, as regards both timing and outcome, but the enormous scale of the stakes are clearer: Brussels is challenging the entire basis of the group's business strategy and model. It is determined to change them.

Novell Identity Manager and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Fortify Security and Regulatory Compliance Infrastructure

Valgrind is a CPU simulator which is used by KDE and many other projects to profile and debug our programmes. In the interview below Valgrind author Julian Seward talks to KDE Dot News about why he developed Valgrind, how you can use it and, most importantly, where the name comes from. Julian will be giving a talk on Valgrind next Sunday at FOSDEM.