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Who really owns your software? This is the benign question behind an epic ideological struggle raging internationally through courts of law and public opinion. At stake is who will control the software industry and, by implication, information distribution in the 21st century, and the wealth of nations.

MontaVista Software has announced two new distribution partnerships that will expand its channel in the South Pacific and Nordic regions. Melbourne-based Madisent will sell and support Montavista products in Australia and New Zealand, while Nohau Elektronik AB of Malmo, Sweden will cover Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.

LiveTime Software, a provider of J2EE based Help Desk and Support Desk software, announced it has joined the Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) Ready Program.

Leader in Storage Management and Server Migration Solutions to Participate in Lab Data Center Linux Working Group

LynuxWorks will unveil Eclipse-based tools for embedded Linux development at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) next week in San Francisco. The company will also demonstrate Linux-based point-of-sale technology developed for a gas station and convenience store, and other embedded Linux technologies.

There have been many reviews and articles about the AMD64 architecture, but thus far there have been no performance reviews that show the advantage of 64-bit. Likewise there have been no comparisons between AMD's new 64-bit processors and Intel's Pentium4 Prescott core processors when taking full advantage of their technologies.

CeBIT, the world largest computer trade show, is taking place in Hannover from 18 to 24 March. The KDE Project will be present and showcasing the latest developments of the innovative KDE 3.2 desktop. The KDE Team can be found in the booth of Linup Front, come around and visit the developers, translators and representatives who are there. This gives you the opportunity to talk to several of the creators of the award-winning desktop environment.

When Matt Asay -- who once studied law under Lawrence Lessig -- joined Novell two years ago, his job was to recruit developers to work on Netware. Today, his "day job" is acting as director of Novell's Linux Business Office and Open Source Review Board. But Matt has also been part of the open source community the past five years. This week, the fruits of his unofficial labor are paying off in the form of a new open source conference to be held March 16 and 17 at the Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco. It's called the Open Source Business Conference.

MySQL in April will ship MySQL Cluster, a high-availability version of its open source database for deployment across clusters of systems.

If Linux was a niche operating system within the enterprise a few years ago, today it is gaining traction as a secure and reliable central business platform, according to CommSecure’s managing director Ray Loyzaga.

After flatly dismissing the possibility of developing a Linux distribution when it unveiled a broad Linux support strategy in October, Wind River Systems Inc. late last month said it plans to do just that.

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that some of the industry's most influential business and open source leaders, including Novell Vice Chairman -- Office of the CEO Chris Stone and Apache Software Foundation Founder Brian Behlendorf, will deliver keynote addresses at the MySQL Users Conference & Expo, April 14-16 in Orlando, Florida.

When it is time to upgrade technology operations, most corporations turn to Microsoft, but this behavior is changing.

Lindows.com has discontinued the availability of its products and suspended operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg following a court filing in the region.

Microsoft has told us it's successful because it makes better products at cheaper prices. However, Microsoft Office can now be matched on quality and beaten on price by Ximian's Evolution and Sun Microsystem's OpenOffice, the free version of StarOffice. Combined, they are said to be the first open source contenders against the formidable Microsoft Office product and its approximately 90-percent desktop market share.

Thomas W. Malone, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management ushers in the era of decentralized work in his forthcoming book The Future of Work, according to a Boston Globe preview of the work.

The success of the Linux computer operating system has fuelled a rush by venture capitalists to invest in a new wave of open source software companies, creating the sort of land-grab mentality last seen during the 1990s technology boom.

Shell programming? I can hear it now. "Barr, you're a lunatic! This time you've gone too far! Noobies will never, ever, under any circumstances, grok shell programming!" I don't blame them for feeling that way. I was a doubter myself until I saw it ...

from its Protect Your PC campaign to the coming service pack, Microsoft appears to have "got religion" about the subject [of security]. If Linux is to appeal to the general public, security must get easier.

Laffoon. We all know Eric Laffoon as Quanta+' Team Leader. In this interview we get to see a glimpse of the more private site of Eric. He's a multitasker, gets excited by catnip, describes himself as a 'wild and crazy guy', is best known for his good cigars and still looks good in spandex ;-)