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Rocky Mountain high for open source
February 24, 2006
The man behind Steamboat Springs' move to open source sees big gains for local governments.
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Year in review: The open-source effect spreads
December 20, 2005
Open source seeped into nearly every software category, leaving an indelible mark on how software is bought and sold.
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Open source casts new mold for type design
July 11, 2006
DejaVu font development gives Linux another toehold for its push into proprietary territory. Image: The DejaVu font
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Amsterdam to evaluate open source
January 2, 2007
Seeking independence from proprietary software, city joins growing list of other municipalities testing Linux.
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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.
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IBM takes potshots at OpenSolaris
August 16, 2006
Big Blue, a major Linux fan, bashes top rival Sun's effort to make its Unix an open-source operating system.
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HP offers Debian Linux support
August 14, 2006
Hewlett-Packard will offer support, but not marketing, for the noncommercial Linux version.
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For Dell, industry standard now includes Linux
June 8, 2006
Open-source OS now accounts for a quarter of Dell's enterprise business and is growing fast, the company says.
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Novell brands its own open-source religion
May 9, 2006
To perk up revenue from open-source software, Novell readies an open-source identity-management package and desktop Linux suite.
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Novell's shift to open source makes slow progress
April 11, 2006
Two years after Novell first mooted a company migration to Linux, 60 percent of its staff can still boot Windows at work.
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Novell bans proprietary Linux modules
August 1, 2006
Linux seller evicts closed-source modules from open-source Linux, but provides customers a download option.
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AMD nurtures open-source graphics
September 6, 2007
Overcoming ATI's earlier objections, AMD is actively cooperating on open-source software to support its graphics chips.
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Google joins open-source patent network
August 8, 2007
Membership in Open Invention Network will see it agree to cross-license open source-related patents to other members for free.
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Opening gambits for open source
April 19, 2007
Traffic jam hits Ubuntu's "Feisty Fawn" debut, Mozilla Thunderbird 2 takes flight and BabelDisc offers Linux for technophobes.
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Adobe ships Flash player for Linux
January 17, 2007
Adobe Systems releases Linux version of the latest Flash Player, keeping the open-source OS up with the Joneses.
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Microsoft patent peace--or patent war?
November 3, 2006
By declaring a "patent peace" with Novell Linux, did the software company just declare patent war with the open-source realm?
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Is open source getting to Microsoft?
September 15, 2006
Pledge not to sue over Web services patents reflects the spread of the collaborative development model--as far as Microsoft, even.
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Sun to coders: Open-source Java won't change your life
August 16, 2006
Having access to the source code of the Java platform won't affect how developers work, the company says.
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Banks 'should give back to open-source community'
April 26, 2006
The Street is making increasing use of open source, but the financial world should contribute more code, experts say.
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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.
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