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Locating the right open source product just got a hell of lot easier thanks to OpenLogic, which has launched a free website, OLEX, where you can research and download oven-ready open source packages…
Original post by Jason Stamper and software by Elliott Back

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Red Hat has pulled out of the bag some glowingly healthy financial results, as Linux sales continue to flourish.
Subscriptions to Linux software peaked at $109.2m for the second quarter, up 29% over the same period last year. Overall, the company reported revenues of $127.3m, up 28% on last year and 7% on the previous quarter. […]

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My

“Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) FLOSS License Slide”
helps people figure out if the most widely-used FLOSS licenses are compatible
(that is, if you can combine their software to produce new works).
The main body of the PDF text fits all on one page, which can be handy.

My thanks to Olaf Schmidt, who found an error of […]

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Microsoft claims that Linux infringes 235 patents, but if it wants to fight it out in a UK court, it had better think again.
Andrew Katz, a solicitor at UK law firm Moorcrofts, points out that those patents simply don’t apply under UK law. Rather than use patents, Europeans take the far more sensible view, in […]

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Monday’s Microsoft ruling is good news for open source and proprietary vendors alike. But Michael Cunningham, executive vice president and general councel at Red Hat, believes the European Commission shouldn’t let up the pressure on the Redmond giant.
Original post by Jason Stamper and software by Elliott Back

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So, this time, Microsoft wasn’t able to use its brawn to beat up the other kids in the playground, and was made to sit in penance on the ‘naughty step’.
A victory for the anti-monopolists? Well, yes. But exactly how chastened is Microsoft? Has it learnt its lesson, or will it simply look for another way […]

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The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that I referred earlier to Janine Milne as CBR’s new deputy editor.
That’s because today is my last day at CBR/ComputerWire as I’m moving on to the role of enterprise software analyst at The 451 Group. I will be working alongside Raven Zachary and Jay Lyman covering Linux and […]

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Following my recent rant about open source adoption in the UK, and the lack of it, CBR’s new deputy editor, Janine Milne, attended the Westminster eForum debate involving the leading open source advocates in the country as well as a smattering of politicians.
The debate indicated that risk aversion is preventing the UK public sector from […]

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