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  • Red Hat launches open-source Exchange

    Red Hat has launched its Red Hat Exchange, a site where customers can buy a range of open-source applications from the company's business partners.

  • War rages on over Microsoft's OOXML plans

    What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?

  • SCO to yank SGI's Unix license

    High-end computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc. is in line to become the next target of Linux opponent SCO Group, with the controversial software seller threatening to revoke SGI's Unix license.

  • The FUD war against Linux

    Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux.

  • The coming "open monopoly" in software

    Will open-source software undermine the traditional proprietary software model on which many vendors' businesses are based? Why are these IT giants joining open-source efforts? Can any company really profit from open-source software? And if not, why would anyone want to develop it?

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