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New Linux look fuels old debate

April 17, 2006 The use of closed-source software to give Linux slick graphics is keeping a thorny legal and philosophical dispute alive. TAGS: intellectual property, graphics chip company, open source, Free Software Foundation, Linux, Linux kernel, ATI Technologies, kernel, NVidia, software product, chip company, GPL, manager, founder, 3D, Microsoft Windows Vista

IBM offers 500 patents for open-source use

January 11, 2005 Big Blue will let open-source developers use 500 software patents without fear of infringement lawsuits. TAGS: patent, software patent, open-source software, IBM Corp., open source, Linux seller, fear, Linux, open standard, intellectual property, U.S., operating system, database, Microsoft Corp., HP

Sun's fighting chance

September 20, 2004 Forrester CEO George Colony argues that if Sun goes down, it's going to go down taking very big swings. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, pricing, intellectual property, Intel x86, Linux, vendor, IBM Corp., platform, operating system, cell phone, Microsoft Corp.

Two Linux consortia band together

January 22, 2007 Open Source Developer Labs and Free Standards Group have merged into the Linux Foundation in an effort to increase their influence. TAGS: Open Source Development Labs, Linux, influence, foundation, consortium, intellectual property, product manager, open source, resource, operating system

SGI's Unix variant fading into history

September 8, 2006 Silicon Graphics to stop selling computers using MIPS chips and Irix operating system at end of 2006. TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., SGI Unix, Unix, SCO Group Inc., Intel Itanium, SGI Irix, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, HP PA-RISC, HP-UX, x86 processor, intellectual property, Sun Solaris, variant, IBM Corp., acquisition, open source
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