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Microsoft’s admission of defeat in its nine-year long anti-trust battle with the European Commission has met with mixed responses from the open source community.
On Monday, Microsoft agreed with Commission’s 2004 ruling that it was abusing its dominance in the market in the workgroup server market and would not appeal against a further European Union court […]

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Anyone heard of Nuxeo before? New to me, I must confess. Apparently an open source enterprise content management player. Anyway it’s just announced version 5.1 of its open source ECM platform with a focus on SOA, scalability, and support.
Original post by Jason Stamper and software by Elliott Back

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Complementing its Rich Client Platform (RCP), the Eclipse Foundation is now releasing version 1.0 of the server counterpart, the Rich Application Platform (RAP). It’s a Java-based platform that enables Java developers to work in Java, rather than JavaScript, to develop server-based rich browser clients.
Original post by Jason Stamper and software by Elliott Back

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Vietnam’s Communist Party has found an appropriate solution to its rampant software piracy problem: use open source.
More than 90% of all Vietnam’s software is counterfeit, leaving Microsoft, among others, with a massive dent in potential profits and making the software giant ramp up efforts to tackle piracy. But the Communist party has found its own […]

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Red Hat and Novell have been hit with the first patent-infringement lawsuit against Linux. Red Hat’s Linux system and Novell’s SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop and Enterprise Server allegedly infringe on three patents relating to user interfaces within multiple windows, according to the suit filed by two US patent houses.
Enterprise users of these products are protected […]

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Lots of interesting things are happening
with the various efforts to eliminate or counter software vulnerabilities.
The
Software Security Assurance (SwA) State-of-the-Art Report (SOAR)
tries to list what’s going on, especially in things related to the
U.S. government.
As with any such document, it’s incomplete, and it’s only a snapshot
(things keep changing!).
But if you haven’t been following this world, and […]

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