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Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open-source software company.
City officials in San Jose, Calif., are calling into question Cisco Systems' involvement in helping to form a contract to build an IP telephony network for the new city hall.
Are entrenched interests in using copyright law to choke innovation and halt the sharing and distribution of copyrighted works online, or does Lessig need to do some homework?
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Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
This is a powerful system that enables server administrators to very quickly restore data that may have been lost due to viruses, user error or hardware failure.
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