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Sixteen years after releasing GPL2, Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation launched GPL3 over the weekend.
The Linux variant is taking a different tack on the multi-OS tech as it vies with offerings from Red Hat and Novell.
Nokia on Wednesday announced a pocket-sized Web browser for wireless broadband networks, the Finnish firm's first Linux-based device and its first product without a built-in mobile phone.
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Unlike in North America and Europe, several factors are driving a greater interest in the Asia-Pacific region for open source content management-related technologies.
Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories bandied about by critics of open source.
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.
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RealNetworks has unveiled a new open-source version of its streaming media technology that supports multiple file formats for audio and video, including those that use Microsoft's Windows Media technology.
Developers are to get access to the handheld operating system, in a move that the company hopes will encourage the creation of more applications.
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