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  • Oracle bands with open-source patent group

    Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors the incumbent proprietary software powers.

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    Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published on Sunday.

  • Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pacts

    Following some frosty responses to Microsoft's controversial patent deal with Novell last year, the software maker has begun a more aggressive attempt to persuade open-source software companies to license its know-how.

  • Red Hat cancels Fedora Foundation

    Red Hat has dismantled the Fedora Foundation, an initiative conceived as an entity to provide intellectual-property protections to the open-source realm but whose mission grew impractically broad.

  • Microsoft patent peace -- or patent war?

    Microsoft last week declared a "patent peace" with Novell, the number 2 Linux seller. But did the company in fact just declare a patent war with the open-source realm?

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    The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins " so what makes today's scenario so different?

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    Andrew Lippman thinks communities will be key to the future of communications tech.

  • Open Solaris and strategic consequences

    IT veteran Paul Murphy examines whether Sun's move to open Solaris is more than just a case of jumping on a moving bandwagon.

  • Sun's novel idea

    Has the sun prematurely set on Sun Microsystems? The company has proposed buying Novell for its Linux business but this move reveals Sun's myopic view on how the IT world functions.

  • Is Torvalds really the father of Linux?

    A new report raises doubts that Linus Torvalds could have launched Linux without using an earlier operating system. Additional reading: Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft

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    Two Singapore programmers claim to have created an operating system that can run programs written for different platforms such as Windows and Linux.

  • Chrome (beta)

    Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.

  • Intel gets inside life sciences

    Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.

  • My PC wish list for 2003

    Isn't it time we took another Macintoshesque great leap forward in terms of personal computing, is 2003 going to be a year of computational revolution?

  • Video wall displays fantastic 3D voyage

    Researchers use an IBM supercomputer to create giant, 3D images that let them stroll around a human heart or surf solar winds. Did we mention the high-tech red-and-blue-lensed glasses?

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