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Linux 2.6.27 Out
An Open Source Legal Breakthrough
How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding
Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Algorithms Can Make You Pretty
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook
Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux
Is it Time for Open Office?
An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0
Computer-Aided Lego Art Project
Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September
GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait
GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed?
India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML
Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software
Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0
Open Source Speech Recognition
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive
Media Cataloging Software?
What Tax Software Do You Use?
Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review
OpenOffice 2.3 Released
Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed
Do "Illegal" Codecs Actually Scare Linux Users?
Games All Downhill Since Pong?
Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization
If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over
Is Showmypc.com an Open Source Pretender?
Is Windows Vista in Trouble?
Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released
Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent
Modern LaTeX Replacement?
OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System
Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors
Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero
Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software
Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer
2008 - Year of Linux Desktop?
A Preview of Opera 9.5
AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network
French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks
GCC 4.2.1 Released
Google Pushes Open Source OCR
Has Open Source Lost Its Halo?
Measure Anything with a Camera and Software
Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?
Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software
Pirating Software? Choose Microsoft!
The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World
Thunderbird in Crisis?
Visualizing Open Source Contributions
10-Year Anniversary of Open Source
A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets
AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers
After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released
Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware
Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software
Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers
Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source
End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM
Google Earth Gets Star-Gazing Add On
HD Video Editing with Blender
How Fast is Your Turnaround Time?
How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa
IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP
Identifying (and Fixing) Failing IT Projects
Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support?
Konami Slot Machines Flashing Subliminal Messages?
Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now
Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro
Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux
MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems
Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser
Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender
Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora
NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office
NeoOffice 2.2.1 Available For Mac
Netscape Finally Put Down
Open Letter to ISO Calls For Standardization of Process
OpenDocument Foundation Closes
OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF
PC Historian Finds Puzzling Game Diskette Image
PDF Is Now ISO 32000
PhD Research On Software Design Principles?
Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling?
Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field
Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging
Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming
The Contradictory Nature of OOXML
The Really Fair Scheduler
Trolltech Adopts GPL 3 for Qt
US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma
VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative
Virgin America Uses Linux to Entertain Inflight
What 2008 May Hold In Store for FOSS
What Happens Next on the US Vote on OOXML
What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection?
Issue Tracking Ticketing Systems?
Managing Lots of IP Addresses?
Would You Install Pirated Software at Work?
Norwegian Standards Body Members Resign Over OOXML
Acid3 Test Released
Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online
BusinessWeek Advocates Microsoft Piracy
Enso Gives Keyboard Commands to Windows Users
Few of OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed
Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads
Google Faces Plagiarism Questions Over Chinese Software
Legal Counsel Advises Against Accepting OOXML Pledge
Long Live Closed-Source Software?
MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update
Microsoft Launches OSS Site, Submits License For Approval
Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT
OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization
OSI Asks Microsoft to Change the MS-PL
OpenOffice.org 2.3 Review
Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail
Software Missing From Vista's "Official Apps"
Teachers Give ERP Implementations Failing Grades
The Downsides of Software as Service
VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights
Easy, Reliable Distributed Storage and Backup?
Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source
Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting
12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 2007
1200-Baud Archeology
4D Analogue of Megaminx Puzzle
A Cynic Rips Open Source
A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons?
A History of Copy Protection
Adobe May Launch Office Rival
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only
Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries
Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?
An Advance In Image Recognition Software
Apple Drops Part of iPhone Developer NDA
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Dies Quietly
Bell, SuperMicro Sued Over GPL
Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion?
Best OSS Systems Mgmt App You Never Heard Of
Blender 2.46 Released
Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping
Browser Wars Declared Over?
Bruce Perens Aims For OSI Executive
Canonical Begins To Open-Source Launchpad
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 6 for Mac and Linux
Congress Endorses Open Source For Military
Creative Backs Down on Vista Driver Debacle
Cutting-Edge AI Projects?
DARPA Advances AI Program For Air Traffic Control
Debian Gets Win32 Installer
Dirac 1.0.0 Released
Eben Moglen — GPLv3 Not About MS and Novell
Ext3cow Versioning File System Released For 2.6
FSF Releases Third Draft of GPLv3
Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs?
Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve
Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report?
Flock Delivers On Promises Post 1.0
Format Standards Committee "Grinds To a Halt"
GPL 3 Launch Date Announced
Google Chrome, the Google Browser
How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks
How Microsoft Inadvertently Helps To Fund FOSS
How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software
IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite
IBM's Inexpensive Notes/Domino Push Against MS
ISO Calls For OOXML Ceasefire
Kernel Builders Appeal For Open Source Drivers
Large FLOSS Study Gets the Real Facts
Liberation Fonts Increase Interoperability For Linux Users
Lightroom Vs. Aperture
Linus on GIT and SCM
Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released
Linux Gets Completely Fair Scheduler
Linux Kernel Devs Offer Free Driver Development
Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice
MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users
Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold
Microsoft Releases Pre-2007 Binary File Format Specs
Microsoft To Try Works As Adware
Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework
Microsoft to Open Source FoxPro
Mitsubishi Breaks Up Famous Computer Science Lab
Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactions
Mozilla Pitches Firefox 3.1 Alpha For July Release
Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox
Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit
No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever
Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF
OSI To Crack Down On "Open Source" Abusers
Open Source BIND Alternative Launches
Open Source Federal Income Tax Software