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  • Two Linux consortia band together

    The Open Source Developer Labs and the Free Standards Group, two groups trying to standardise and steer Linux, have merged in an effort to increase their influence.

  • Linux lab cuts staff and focuses on legal work

    Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work.

  • 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?

  • Linux lab mending fences with techies

    The Open Source Development Labs, an organisation devoted to improving Linux, has launched a technical advisory board to try to foster better relations with programmers, who at times have been peeved with the industry-funded group.

  • OSDL gives Microsoft the cold shoulder

    The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), home of Linus Torvalds, is unlikely to be accepting Microsoft's offer to jointly finance research into the Windows v Linux debate.

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  • Saving Linux from the lawyers

    CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.

  • Linux calling: Are mobile phones ready?

    The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.

  • New Linux version expected in December

    The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in December and will be much more stable on arrival than its predecessor, according to the programmer in charge of the software.

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