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A little-known outfit calling itself the Public Patent Foundation (PPF) that was organized in November to "campaign against patents that harm the public health, impinge civil liberties and impair free markets" is challenging one of Microsoft’s FAT file system patents, hoping the lot will be brought down if the oldest is declared invalid.

A tiny new "Linux-like" operating system has been released under the GPL, according to a post in the LinuxDevices.com reader forum. LinLike8 aims to bring a Linux-like kernel to 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). Version 00.01.00 supports a Cypress Microsystems programmable system-on-chip (PSoC), according to its author, and can be downloaded now.

Paul Maritz earned a gazillion dollars running all of Microsoft's software development, becoming one of the richest men in America, according to Forbes, before retiring in 2000. And now he's turned traitor, putting his skills and his fortune at the disposal of - gad!!!! - Linux.

Lindows says in its IPO prospectus that it's suing Ottawa-based Xandros Inc, Xandros' New York City VC, Linux Global Partners Inc (LPG), one-time Xandros CEO Michael Bego and LGP co-chairman William Jay Roseman claiming they defaulted on a $750,000 loan.

C.J. Coppersmith is responsible for HP's Linux strategy and business planning, including relationships with distributors and software partners. He recently sat down with internetnews.com to discuss a broad range of Linux issues.

On the 20th and 21st April, those of us in the UK were proud to represent KDE at the Linux User and Developer Expo 2004 at London's Olympia exhibition centre.

...just to be safe, it might be wise for the GIMP developers (as well as all other open source image processing projects which use JPG) to volunteer to donate a percentage of their revenues to Forgent Networks.

Streamlined Program Bridges Gap in Software Offerings for Linux Users

End users and Linux can be like men and marriage--they like the idea, but commitment is a bear. An Austin, Texas-based software maker hopes to make it easier with products that allow Linux-based PCs to run Windows and Windows-based applications in a safe virtual sandbox. James Curtin, CEO of NeTraverse, an exhibitor and presenter at the Desktop Linux Summit here, said his Win4Lin products are intended to serve as a bridge for companies making the switch from Windows to Linux.

Thin is in with Capital Cardiology Associates, and it has little to do with shrinking waistlines. The Albany, N.Y., medical group has replaced its aging, mixed Novell-Windows desktop environment with a bevy of thin clients running the Linux Terminal Server project off a central IBM xSeries server. The migration has resulted in a 30% cost savings and 100% uptime since it was completed five months ago.

The software giant ventured into hostile territory on Wednesday to argue its case during a live debate over the future of the Linux desktop HP, Red Hat, Novell and Sun talking about open-source and Linux at this year's LinuxExpo -- that's not news. But Microsoft joining in -- now that's news.

Hundreds of fans of the Linux computer operating system converged in Del Mar on Thursday to hear how their software is moving from a cult of computer geeks and big businesses to homes, schools and government agencies. The message from speakers and exhibitors at the Desktop Linux Summit: Linux is technically ready to compete with Microsoft Windows, but the word needs to get out more to software developers and computer sellers before it's adopted in numbers approaching that of Windows.

i3 Micro Technology expects to ship in September a version of its "Mood Box" IP set-top box that will run Linux on a single-core DSP from Texas Instruments (TI). The third-generation Mood Box will be able to load a wide range of CODECs on the fly.

Any military officer now in a decision-making role who fails to react effectively to the threat posed by the combination of Microsoft's reliance on obscurity for its operating-system security and communist China's access to the code eventually could be charged with dereliction of duty.

Opera Software today released the beta 1 of version 7.50, redesigned for Linux and across other operating systems including Windows, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris. The release marks the first time that upgrades for all desktop platforms have been released simultaneously.

Michigan-based DTE Energy has deployed OpenLink's Endur solution for energy/commodity markets transaction and risk management, marking OpenLink's first Linux installation. The software enables trading, risk management and operations for DTE Energy's natural gas, power, refined products, coal, and emissions trading activities in real-time.

According to to reports from London, one of Microsoft's leading engineers is very happy to see Linux challenging Microsoft on the desktop. It will merely sharpen Microsoft's game, in his view.

Novell Inc. has announced an enterprise operating platform that brings together its existing NetWare platform with the company's newly acquired SuSE LINUX and Ximian offerings to give customers a clear path for migration to Linux.

Responses to claims that Linux and open source are threats to national security.

Objects Search has launched clustering search engine based on open source technology nutch (www.nutch.org). Clustering Engine is a system for clustering textual data.This engine automatically categorizes search results on-the-fly into hierarchical clusters.