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    Software giant Microsoft has said it rejected plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on One Laptop per Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of XP specifically for the XO.

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    Richard Stallman, leader of the Free Software Foundation and chief author of the General Public License (GPL) used Novell's BrainShare conference in Utah to criticise the software maker's controversial deal with Microsoft.

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    Red Hat moved quickly on Friday to pour cold water on Microsoft's partnership with Novell.

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    Debian is a steadfastly noncommercial version of Linux. But Hewlett-Packard gave it a big corporate hug on Monday in the US with the announcement of a plan to provide support for the open-source operating system.

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    Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories bandied about by critics of open source.

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    A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.

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    Do you need open-source legal protection any more than you need meteor insurance? Don't dismiss the idea.

  • Mozilla, Gnome take aim at Longhorn

    As Microsoft focuses on merging its Web browser and operating system software, open-source competitors are mulling a proposal to join forces and beat the software giant to the punch.

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