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Microsoft reaches out to Firefox developers

August 22, 2006 Invites open sourcers to participate in making sure that the browser will get along with Windows Vista. TAGS: open-source community, open source, Mozilla Corp., Firefox, offer, Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Microsoft has OS patents; Linux has none

December 4, 2006 ActiveGrid's Peter Yared says the Microsoft-Novell deal creates competition and is ultimately good for customers. TAGS: patent, Novell Inc., open-source community, open source, Linux kernel, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., antitrust, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Microsoft: No Office on Linux 'at this time'

October 5, 2005 Won't do the same for the open-source OS that it did for Apple's software--at least for now, an exec says. TAGS: Eric Raymond, Linux desktop, Linux, LinuxWorld, open source, Microsoft Office, market share, open-source community, Apple Computer, London, Unix, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, operating system, Microsoft Windows

'Customers are not afraid of Microsoft'

December 14, 2006 newsmaker Red Hat executive sees opportunities despite recent challenges to its position from Microsoft and Oracle. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., JBoss, open-source community, open source, Newsmaker, middleware, Fedora Project, Linux, Microsoft Corp., CEO, operating system

Red Hat: Customers are not afraid of Microsoft

December 13, 2006 Executive sees opportunities despite recent challenges to its position from Microsoft and Oracle. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc., JBoss, Oracle Corp., open source, open-source community, middleware, Fedora Project, Linux, Microsoft Corp., CEO, operating system

Saving Linux from the lawyers

November 21, 2005 CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system. TAGS: patent, Open Source Development Labs, open-source community, Linux, open source, developer, lawyer, IBM Corp., CEO, Microsoft Corp., server, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Experts question Windows win in flaw tally

January 6, 2006 A US-CERT report that found Microsoft's OS had fewer vulnerabilities than Linux-Unix in 2005 is flawed itself, critics say. TAGS: LINUX/UNIX, vulnerability, flaw, open-source community, researcher, statistics, open source, Unix, Linux, platform, Red Hat Inc., security, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows NT

Computing heavyweights to chaperone Linux into servers

August 30, 2000 IBM, NEC, Intel, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are joining with Linux companies to coax the open-source operating system into high-end, multiprocessor machines. TAGS: Silicon Graphics Inc., heavyweight, Linux company, Linux, multiprocessor, IBM Corp., open-source community, open source, programmer, SuSE, file system, NEC Electronics Corp., Intel, server, Dell, HP
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