Sun Microsystems has offered a glimpse of their Australian development partner arrangements to delegates at one of country's top Linux events where open-source gurus faced questions from software developers.
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.
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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.
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