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  • UK is an open source 'third world country'

    Linux User Expo: Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe where it comes to adopting open-source software, says a lobbyist. But the open-source community cannot expect businesses to adopt Linux without better technical support.

  • Banks 'should give back to open-source community'

    Major open-source vendors on Monday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community.

  • Linux lab cuts staff and focuses on legal work

    Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work.

  • Torvalds wraps up current Linux core

    Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.

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    Novell hopes companies that deserted it for Microsoft in the nineties may come back to the fold following its acquisition of SuSE.

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    As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

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    Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery.

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    ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).

  • IM compatibility closer to reality

    The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.

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    Imagine a world where most software licenses are fee-free. Your careers, your IT strategies, and your vendor relationships would be utterly transformed. Could this come to pass?

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  • Torvalds wraps up current Linux core

    Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.

  • IM compatibility closer to reality

    The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.

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