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  • Ubuntu-maker launches Bazaar development tool

    Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has released a content-development tool designed to move development into the Internet age.

  • OOXML 'tool of monopoly lock-in': OSI founder

    The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) founder Eric S Raymond is very unhappy with Microsoft for trying to force a "divisive" and "technically bogus" specification through as an international standard.

  • SCO wanted to gag Torvalds

    Unix company was gathering information to support a court order to silence individuals related to its open-source legal case against IBM.

  • Microsoft: No Office on Linux 'at this time'

    Microsoft has no plans to tweak its Office productivity suite for Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop, according to a company executive.

  • Red Hat exec takes over open source initiative

    The Open Source Initiative, a group seeking to become more influential in matters concerning the cooperative-programming philosophy, has seen its second change of leadership in less than a month.

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  • How the Mac was born

    Andy Hertzfeld, co-creator of the Macintosh, talks about his work on the Mac, his reasons for writing a book on it and the reaction from his former co-workers.

  • Could Sun hold a key to SCO's future?

    As SCO forges ahead with a take no prisoners approach, its most fervent opponents are salivating at the prospect that a sealed 1992 settlement between the University of California, Berkeley, and Novell could disprove SCO claims to the Unix code. Imagine if Sun were holding a similar document in its files?

  • What Linux can learn from Windows

    The Linux community could benefit by taking a page from Microsoft's security playbook, says CNET News.com's Robert Lemos.

  • Study: Open source produces best results

    A consulting group has found that a key networking component of Linux is of higher quality in several ways than that of competing closed-source software.

  • The commercial salvation of Linux

    According to Eric Raymond, every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. But is it also the developers' interests that get served?

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