One of the leading developers of the Samba system, Jeremy Allison, has resigned from his job at Novell in protest of the agreement the company has with Microsoft.
Allison, who worked on the Suse Linux distribution at Novell confirmed that his beef is with the patent agreement that allows the two companies to collaborate on technologies [...]

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Sun Microsystems has released version 6 of its Java Standard Edition programming language for desktop applications.
The technology implements the new Java Specification Request 270 ratified last month by the Java Community Process. The new request adds enhancements designed to allow developers to create applications more easily.
In an attempt to settle a long-standing debate alleging that [...]

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According to News.com the Sun Microsystems is expected to release the source code to its Java platforms after years of speculation and urging by the open source community.
Unlike Solaris and J2EE, which were released under the Common Development and Distribution License, Sun has opted to release the source code for Java Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) [...]

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Novell has unveiled the release version of its Mono application designed to bridge the gap between *nix and Microsoft’s .Net development framework.
Mono 1.2 represents an important milestone towards compatibility with version 2.0 of the .Net framework, according to Novell.
Key enhancements include the addition of support for the Microsoft Windows Forms API to more easily port [...]

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The patent cross licensing deal unveiled by Microsoft and Novell on 2 November will be incompatible with the GPL3 licence and is likely to be incompatible with the current GPL2 licence, according to law professor and open source activist Eben Moglen.
Section seven of the current General Public Licence (GPL2) prohibits people or corporations from distributing [...]

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Microsoft and Zend have forged a partnership that aims to improve the execution of PHP on Windows Server 2003 as well as the forthcoming Windows Server code-named Longhorn.
PHP is an open source scripting language that is used to build online applications. Zend offers services and products that help developers create PHP applications.Zend claims that the [...]

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The European Commission is to create a portal for European public sector bodies to store and share open source application code and exchange open source knowledge.
The Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR) will be developed and managed by a consortium led by Unisys.
It is intended to help public bodies improve returns on IT investment and [...]

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