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Let's start off with some questions that may have answers that are harder than you would expect:

1. "In general, how do you react to outsiders that offer to present at your Linux User Group (LUG)?"
2. "What about commercial interests presenting to your LUG?"
3. "What would you do if a Microsoft employee showed up at your LUG?"
4. "If you allowed a Microsoft employee to present, just what kind of topics would you allow?

Now for the really tricky part: The questions, especially that last one, aren't hypothetical.

The snowballing success of Linux has attracted involvement from all corners of the computing realm--but the breadth of that interest is expected to complicate a revision of the software's legal underpinnings.

Invites Participation in Defining Requirements for Linux on the Enterprise Desktop

At LinuxWorld, Sun is previewing its StarOffice 8 beta, with better interoperability with Microsoft Office, and Release 3 of its Java Desktop System, featuring expanded device support.

- Novell Security Manager powered by Astaro delivers complete gateway security that protects businesses against security threats caused by hackers, viruses, worms, spam and intrusions

"The open source community is the ultimate marketing focus group," says entrepreneur Stephen Street, whose latest venture, StreetFire Sound Labs, is taking on traditional stereo equipment manufacturers in the "living room war" over home media equipment. StreetFire's first product, the fully open source RBX1600 personal music server, debuted in the fourth quarter of 2004. The big difference between StreetFire's $750 server and proprietary systems: "We want people to hack our box," says Street. "You know the people hacking their Tivos and running Linux on their Xboxes? We love those guys!"

Desktop Linux Summit 2005 proves to be a success

"Klax" is an i486 GNU/Linux Live-CD based on Slackware 10.1 with a patched Qt 3.3.4 and a complete KDE 3.4 Beta 2. Additionally it also contains KOffice 1.3.5 and k3b 0.11.20. All this within an ISO image of only 373MB. It can be used to give you an impression of the upcoming KDE 3.4, to verify if bugs still exist or discover new ones and to make screenshots.

IBM releases XL C/C++ ( a high-performance optimizing compiler ) to Linux developers.

We are one week into the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.

Three Los Angeles council members want the city to switch to an open-source platform to save millions of dollars in software costs. Council members Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greul and Jack Weiss introduced a motion yesterday asking the city's Information Technology Agency about a transition from proprietary software licenses to open-source platforms and programs. The money saved could be used to hire more police personnel, the council members said.

A Framingham technology show producer will bring its LinuxWorld exposition to Boston this week for the first time ever, recognizing the growth of the thriving open-source software industry in Massachusetts and MetroWest.

Talk about dedication! In preparation for "Microsoft and Linux square off in InfoWorld's Exchange migration challenge" -- a shootout pitting Microsoft Exchange against four commercial Linux-based mail servers -- Test Center Senior Editor Ted Samson took a vacation … to Antarctica.

Greg Papadopoulos says Sun's Common Development and Distribution License is "more liberal in its IP license than even the GPL, because it gives a clear patent license and doesn't demand the same viral propagation."

Opportunities widen in enterprise market.

One reader questioned my statement a couple of weeks ago that "every service and utility that ships in the [Open Enterrprise Server] package will run on either" the NetWare or Linux kernel. He specifically mention iFolder, reminding me that a new version was being built using the Mono framework, usually associated with open-source-on-Linux projects. He's right, but so was I.

Novell releases numerous fixes to bugs that could compromise its SuSE Linux line and defends its new policy of issuing noncritical patch notices on a weekly basis.

After reviewing commercial Linux messaging servers, we wanted to assess the practicality of building a similarly capable e-mail solution made entirely of open source tools. Going that route means giving up having a single vendor to turn to for support and a nicely packaged installation, but it could save a boatload in licensing fees.

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As Linux claims a growing share of the telecommunications market, CGL 3.0 is a blueprint for future expansion.