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  • Anger as EU ignores open-source video

    More than 7,000 angry Linux users have protested against the European Union after it excluded them from viewing streaming videos.

  • EU lawmakers threaten open source

    The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against businesses using software that is believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property (IP). Experts warn that the law could allow SCO to sue Linux users in a criminal court.

  • Samba: EU made Microsoft talk again

    Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.

  • EU to fund global research on open source

    The European Union is putting money toward research into open-source software and standards across the world.

  • Microsoft not yet open for business

    The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested the information and replied: Heard it before. Not good enough.

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  • Samba: EU made Microsoft talk again

    Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.

  • Supermarket Sweep -- Club Builder

    Microsoft wants Yahoo, Nokia buys Trolltech -- it's a tech supermarket sweep! This week on Club Builder we also look at IE8's new standards mode and have some fun with Linus Torvalds.

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  • Microsoft: We'll open up more source code

    Microsoft's shared source chief Jason Matusow on how the programme will spread beyond platforms and whether Office source code will be released. The question is, does anybody want it?

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