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Torvalds: Linux ready to go green
January 31, 2008
Developer of the Linux kernel says improvements in power-management, energy-diagnosis tools are in the offing.
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DRM troubles drive ex-Microsoft employee to Linux
September 26, 2007
Former Microsoft security expert may switch from Windows Media Center to LinuxMCE over frustration with Microsoft's DRM.
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DRM key to Linux's consumer success?
April 7, 2006
Yes, RealNetworks exec argues at LinuxWorld. But do consumers really want tech like FairPlay, PlaysForSure?
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Linux, digital rights on collision course
August 4, 2004
HP executive blames Digital Millennium Copyright Act for incompatibility with open-source software.
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U.K. Linux guru backs GPL 3
January 31, 2006
Linus Torvalds may have his doubts, but fellow Linux leader Alan Cox is supporting the next version of the GPL.
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So much for the 'new and improved' GPL
April 30, 2007
James V. DeLong says the Free Software Foundation's intellectual hostility toward copy protection threatens to create new problems.
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New GPL draft takes second crack at DRM
July 27, 2006
Second draft of General Public License 3 "clarifies" digital rights management provisions, a point of contention. Draft version 3 of GPL in full
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Torvalds: 'Hot air' in debates on GPL, content control
January 16, 2007
Both DRM technology and GPL 3 will cause a lot of arguments, the man behind Linux says. But in the end, good technology will prevail.
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Torvalds: No GPL 3 for Linux
January 26, 2006
Linus Torvalds rejects the planned update to the seminal open-source license, citing its DRM provisions.
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Torvalds says DRM isn't necessarily bad
February 3, 2006
'We are not crusaders,' declares the Linux kernel leader in a debate over proposed open-source license changes.
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The open-source programmer who means business
February 2, 2006
Linux expert and MBA candidate Alan Cox talks about the GPL, patent politics and the drive to the desktop.
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Torvalds critical of new GPL draft
July 28, 2006
Linux leader maintains his objections to provisions against digital rights managment.
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New open-source license targets DRM, Hollywood
January 18, 2006
Free Software Foundation's Eben Moglen says the updated GPL may put open-source products in conflict with movie studios and Tivo.
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MP3tunes.com shuns digital rights management
February 9, 2005
Michael Robertson, MP3.com's outspoken founder, turns on his latest creation: a music download service that focuses on unsigned artists.
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Top Linux programmers pan GPL 3
September 25, 2006
High-ranking kernel coders join Torvalds in opposing the new license draft; some say it could harm open source.
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GPL getting tougher on patent deals
March 28, 2007
Version 3 to block next Microsoft-Novell handshake? Latest draft aims to "prevent such deals from making a mockery of free software."
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Adobe tries again with e-books
October 24, 2006
Digital Editions software is meant to be a simpler and more flexible e-book reader and manager.
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Former Microsoft exec joins open-source project
November 15, 2004
One of the guys behind Microsoft's "Halloween memo" regarding Linux is now working on open-source media software.
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Getting Bad with Apple
September 13, 2005
Michael Robertson started MP3.com and Linspire. Now he's taking on Apple and iTunes with BadApple.
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