Linux Australia Pty Ltd has failed to gain control over a trademark and a domain name linked with the company, after taking legal action in a South Australian court last week.
Legal wrangling around a South Australian company's attempt to trademark the term Linux Australia has taken an unusual turn.
Oracle continued its bullish optimism for its Linux strategy at its OpenWorld customer event in Melbourne today, revealing that 90 per cent of new Australasian customers had deployed its database on the operating system over the last 12 months.
Linus Torvalds has been called on to help Australia's peak Linux association in a battle to stop local companies attempting to trademark the word "Linux".
While government departments remain concerned about the implications of using open source, successful projects have overcome that concern by simply demonstrating better value for money.
The companies bridge a networking-system rift, while customers hope more such collaborations are on the way.
Andrew Lippman thinks communities will be key to the future of communications tech.
Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates.
As pictures of contested Linux code make their way online, open-source enthusiasts are bashing The SCO Group for its claims that the code shows it has legal rights over the OS.
CIOs have moved from the sidelines to the playing field in the search for a successor to traditional data centre products. Have they found one in Linux?
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
Because networks increase the number of interdependencies among machines, they tend to magnify problems. As the saying goes, "Networking is when you can’t get any work done because of the failure of a machine you have never even heard of."
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