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On August 3rd, 2005, the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit public benefit software development organization, launched a wholly owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. The Mozilla Corporation is a taxable subsidiary that serves the non-profit, public benefit goals of its parent, the Mozilla Foundation, and will be responsible for product development, marketing and distribution of Mozilla products.

With a list of visitors that includes the likes of Lawrence Lessig and British track star Kelly Holmes, the small town of Potchefstroom in South Africa is attracting significant attention for its innovative use of open source software in building local skills.

Howdy James. You recently gave an interview to ComputerWorld Australia's Rodney Gedda. I'm curious about some of the statements you've made in that piece. For brevity & simplicity's sake, I'll iterate through them in point form.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., August 3, 2005–– The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit public benefit software development organization, today announced it has formed a wholly owned subsidiary company to be known as the Mozilla Corporation. The Mozilla Corporation is a taxable subsidiary that serves the non-profit, public benefit goals of its parent, the Mozilla Foundation, and the vast Mozilla community. It will continue to leverage resources from diverse sources to create and distribute great open and free-of-charge end-user products -- such as the popular Mozilla Firefox Web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email client -- that promote choice and innovation on the Web.

Novell is renaming SUSE Professional and releasing it as 100% open source. Novell spokesman and director of public relations Bruce Lowry says his company is "pushing" to make SUSE Linux available to anyone who wants it. According to sources close to the company, SUSE Professional is to be rebranded as OpenSUSE.

In a recent review article of SUSE 9.3 Professional, I discussed the advantages of using a common distribution to administer CUPS and more easily share a locally attached printer across a LAN. A reader comment about using a network-ready printer instead made me consider that alternative for multi-OS environments where a common platform is not a possibility. I am now the proud owner of a Deskjet 6840, a color inkjet printer by Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Novell and HP Offer Joint Vendor Testing of Complex Clustered Linux-based Stack to Offload Burden from Customers, Ease Their Ability to Deploy

Intellectual property compliance software firm Black Duck has signed deals with two major open source resources, SourceForge.net and the Eclipse Foundation.

A new rating system designed to make open-source applications less of a leap of faith and offer nervous corporations something of an application track record debuted on Monday at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. The proposed open-source rating standard, Business Readiness Ratings (BRR), is being sponsored by Carnegie Mellon West Center for Open Source Investigation, O’Reilly CodeZoo, SpikeSource, and Intel.

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Welcome to our issue number 7 of Fedora Weekly News

Where are we heading with todays software development model ?

Why enterprise-class open source? Because it works. Think Linux. Think Apache. Think JBoss. These and other open source projects are transforming enterprise IT by leveraging the participatory nature of open source to deliver products and services with superior capabilities and lower prices.

In strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell plans OpenSuse effort to let outsiders contribute to development of OS.

New SPECjbb2005 Benchmarks Show That JRockit Provides the Fastest Per-CPU Results of a Java Virtual Machine for Server Side Applications

Messaging software firm Scalix, which provides e-mail and calendaring systems for the Linux operating system, has moved into the wireless market with a new launch.

As Linux and open-source vendor Novell moves to wind down its relationship with Open-Xchange and the open-source Open-Xchange collaboration server, Novell's primary competitor, Red Hat, is quickly moving in to take its place.

Novell has launched a new introductory Linux training course. The course is intended for academic environments, with the aim of giving educational institutions a pathway to open source training, and to promote Linux among students. A special effort is being made in Malaysia. The courses include the fundamentals, administration and advanced administration of SuSE Linux. Novell also said that it would be donating US$1.5 million in SuSE Linux software and training materials to educational institutions worldwide.

Visual Paradigm Smart Development Environment 3.0 for NetBeans/ Sun™ One (SDE-NB) is a UML modeling plug-in for NetBeans supporting model-driven development.

The central government is to take the initiative to set up a centre next month in Chennai dedicated to creating open source software, said Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology.