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  • IBM calls for patent reform

    IBM has called for tighter regulation of patents and a review of intellectual property ownership issues in collaborative software development.

  • Rift divides FOSS community, says Linux body

    Linux Australia's immediate past president believes moderate open source developers are being pushed into "a refugee situation" between the 'free software' and 'commercial' hardliners.

  • Gosling: Partnership with Microsoft becoming less relevant

    The father of Java, James Gosling has questioned the technical relationship between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft in light of the antitrust demands of the European Union on the world's biggest software maker.

  • Sun will 'take bullets' over patents: McNealy

    As Sun Microsystems moves to tie itself more closely to the developer community by releasing an open source version of Solaris, chief executive officer Scott McNealy has reinforced the company's willingness to "take bullets" to protect end-users from patent and copyright litigation.

  • GNOME: We've overtaken Windows, bring on Apple

    An upgraded GNOME desktop environment for Linux and Unix is due for release today, with its authors pitching enhanced features for end-users and a commitment to make hardware "just work".

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