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  • 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.

  • Dell buys in to Microsoft-Novell pact

    Dell has become the first PC maker to put its support behind Microsoft and Novell's effort to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux server computing.

  • MandrakeSoft releases latest Linux

    MandrakeSoft has released the latest version of its Linux software, code-named Dolphin.

  • Protectionism in the software market

    General Motors isn't forced to contend with a "free car" movement, which has a goal of undermining sales-based automakers, so why should software vendors have to put up with such a beast?

  • Penguin Power 2002

    2002 was a good year for the open-source movement, with increasing adoption in the enterprise sector.

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  • Linux continues desktop march

    The good news for Linux as an operating system for the desktop--as opposed to the server--is that it is set to become number two after Windows in the next year or so.

  • MandrakeSoft releases latest Linux

    MandrakeSoft has released the latest version of its Linux software, code-named Dolphin.

  • Penguin Power 2002

    2002 was a good year for the open-source movement, with increasing adoption in the enterprise sector.

  • Who's afraid of the $200 Linux PC?

    Cheap PCs with a Linux operating system seem to have hit the users' sweet spots, with taking the plunge into the alternate OS not nearly as hard as users had thought.

  • SuSE widens scope for desktop Linux

    The software maker introduces a version of Linux aimed at enterprise customers, hoping to move the open-source software beyond servers and low-cost PCs.

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