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  • Sun expands open-source Java plan

    Sun Microsystems will begin releasing significant open-source Java components this year and also will extend the collaborative strategy to the gadget version of the software technology.

  • Analysts: Microsoft feels tug of Linux

    The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.

  • Open source fans offer differing views of MS move

    Open source developers and users have always been a sceptical group, but their opinions can shift for example, their loathing of Sun Microsystems diminished as Sun stopped attacking Linux and started moving towards open source software.

  • Sun picks GPL for Java code

    After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly licence.

  • Linux license overhaul - don't hold your breath

    The snowballing success of Linux has attracted involvement from all corners of the computing realm - but the breadth of that interest is expected to complicate a revision of the software's legal underpinnings.

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  • Analysts: Microsoft feels tug of Linux

    The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.

  • Deciphering the open-source war

    He's baaack! At the recently concluded World Congress on Information Technology 2002, Microsoft's Craig Mundie registered his objection to those awful folks who take the liberty to compete with his company.

  • Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

    After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.

  • Microsoft learns to live with open source

    Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.

  • Microsoft stands firm in the 'great Linux debate'

    The software giant ventured into hostile territory on Wednesday to argue its case during a live debate over the future of the Linux desktop.

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