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