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Google Partners With OIN For Linux
lymeca writes "Groklaw reports that Google has become the Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. The OIN was established by companies such as IBM, Red Hat, and somewhat ironically Novell to accumulate patents and license them royalty-free to any company promising not to leverage their own patent portfolio against key applications available on GNU/Linux, including many GNU projects as well as Linux itself. Google's support bolsters the OIN's effectiveness as a shield against patent attacks against GNU/Linux and many popular applications that run on it." -
Oracle Creates Linux Division
MikeDartt writes "According to C|Net news, Oracle is devoting an entire division to creating a line of products for Linux. As the article notes, this isn't surprising, given Ellison's antipathy towards MS. Yet another announcement for LWE, eh? " Will this lead to even more enterprise credibility? -
How to Mix Open Source and Games
MikeDartt writes "Linux Today has an excellent article on how to best mix game creation with open source software and the Bazaar model of development. In short, the author looks at why games are different from other pieces of software, and suggests that the technical aspects of the game (engine, modeler, scripting language, etc.) be OSS, with the proprietary/differentiating focus on design and art. " -
Big Guns Unite To Unify Unix
MikeDartt writes "Wired reports that Compaq has just joined IBM and SCO in Project Monterey, which is an attempt to get a single UNIX distro that will run on Merced. Perhaps I'm naive, but why get behind a new *NIX as well as Linux, esp. when the latter is both more open and more fashionable? " -
Free Software and Capitalism
Glyph writes " This is an article on Open Source Software and Capitalism. It is a view on the Free Software movment I haven't seen published before, and one that I think bears more examination. Sorry if this is redundant with the number of "Open Source Is Great" articles that you've been getting, but I think it is something that free-software-ites should consider. This is still a draft. No flames, please. " -
Free Software and Capitalism
Glyph writes " This is an article on Open Source Software and Capitalism. It is a view on the Free Software movment I haven't seen published before, and one that I think bears more examination. Sorry if this is redundant with the number of "Open Source Is Great" articles that you've been getting, but I think it is something that free-software-ites should consider. This is still a draft. No flames, please. "