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  • Debian rejects Sender ID

    Developers responsible for the Debian Linux distribution announced on Saturday that they will not implement Sender ID due to Microsoft's insistence on licensing the anti-spam standard. This announcement comes only a few days after the Apache Foundation's refusal to implement Sender ID.

  • The future locations of Linux

    Where will Linux be in 2005? Hint: it won't be your desktop. Instead, embedded Linux will pop up in smart devices and more. Do you know where Tux is going?

  • Stallman: Linux used to track Londoners

    Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system.

  • OOXML expert claims ODF is defective

    Experts have defended the Open Document Format standard against suggestions that its schema is broken, but the critic who highlighted the alleged flaws has defended his position.

  • Q&A: Debian leader on not being in it for the money

    The Debian GNU/Linux operating system continues to generate interest from developers around the world, keen to sign up and contribute code to the open-source project now in its 15th year.

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  • Part One: Why open source will rule

    Linux and the open-source movement have come a long way since the foundation of the Open Source Initiative in the late 1990s but does it have the credibility it needs to succeed in the business world?

  • Ballmer opens up on Microsoft's future

    What is Windows' strongest competitor? Will Microsoft expand successfully beyond the PC? Find out what Steve Ballmer thinks.

  • Microsoft's role in ID theft

    Peter Cullen, the company's chief privacy strategist, explains how Sender ID can take a bite out of spam and phishing.

  • Mozilla: More bugs mean Firefox is more secure

    The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

  • Squashing bugs with an Apple fix a day

    Open-source developer Landon Fuller explains why he is devoting his time to patching flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs.

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