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    When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart.

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    2007 saw more key executives leaving their posts than those joining companies. We take a look at who left their hot seats last year and why.

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    Richard Stallman, leader of the Free Software Foundation and chief author of the General Public License (GPL) used Novell's BrainShare conference in Utah to criticise the software maker's controversial deal with Microsoft.

  • New GPL draft has olive branches, thorns

    The latest draft of revisions to the dominant open-source license offers an accommodating approach to some significant objections, but it could throw a wrench into the works of a major open-source company, Novell.

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  • Sun's Schwartz living a Linux nightmare

    At a time when Sun must vie for the attention of IT buyers bombarded by Red Hat, SuSE, Microsoft, IBM and HP, the company knows that it must tap the galvanising force of GNU/Linux rather than offend those who subscribe to it.

  • Linux licence overhaul -- don't hold your breath

    General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.

  • Trojan compromises GNU software downloads

    The GNU Project has discovered that its servers were compromised by a Trojan horse in mid-March. Find out how this may have contaminated software downloads from that popular open source site.

  • IBM to Sun: free Java

    Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.

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