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Any Linux developer in a coma for the last six years who awoke to the sight of LinuxWorld's trade floor in San Francisco this week would most likely have suffered a severe stroke.
IBM on Wednesday promised not to use its formidable collection of technology patents against Linux and challenged other companies to do the same, working to dispel one cloud that hangs over the open-source programming movement.
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Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates.
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