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  • SCO smear campaign can't defeat GNU community

    Richard Stallman, authour of the GNU General Public License and president of the Free Software Foundation gives his opinion on the SCO issue.

  • Open-source Visionary: Proprietary software is not okay

    When he began his one-man mission in 1984, critics dismissed Richard Stallman as tilting at windmills. Has his labour paid off?

  • SCO, IBM battle heats up

    Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between The SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress their legal claims by turning to third parties for information.

  • Linux license overhaul - don't hold your breath

    The snowballing success of Linux has attracted involvement from all corners of the computing realm - but the breadth of that interest is expected to complicate a revision of the software's legal underpinnings.

  • Open source group says no to SCO

    A leading free software group has vowed to fight portions of a request to release information that could help the SCO Group in its legal battle against Linux.

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  • Linux licence overhaul -- don't hold your breath

    General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.

  • Open-source Visionary: Proprietary software is not okay

    When he began his one-man mission in 1984, critics dismissed Richard Stallman as tilting at windmills. Has his labour paid off?

  • The FUD war against Linux

    Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux.

  • High alert for open source?

    Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday.

  • Open source's promise -- and pitfalls

    Is all the talk about flexibility, choice and eliminating customer lock-in just an idealised view of open-source software?

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