Competition Killer: European Commission Documents 20 Years of Microsoft Anticompetitive Behavior
Apr 23, 2009The Groklaw legal forum has provided a document under European Commission sponsorship that demonstrates Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior during the last 20 years.
more »Candidates for Google Summer of Code 2009
Apr 23, 2009A fairly long list of projects will take part in this year's Google Summer of Code, the fifth since 2005. Students will be working in grand style to improve products from these popular open source projects.
more »Open Source World Map
Apr 22, 2009In association with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Red Hat has carried out an open source index study and published it in the form of a world map.
more »Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems
Apr 20, 2009After weeks' long rumor mill, the word is finally out: database specialist Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems for around $7.4 billion. This just two weeks after IBM abandoned its bid to do the same thing.
more »U.S. Turning to Open Source? Obama Names Chopra CTO
Apr 20, 2009Will Aneesh Paul Chopra, newly appointed U.S. Chief Technology Officer, promote open source? Time will tell. At least he has the support of some of his friends in the field.
more »Top Secret: Open Source Study 2 in Vienna
Apr 20, 2009Along with Munich, Vienna is regarded as a forerunner in the field of open source projects in the German-speaking region of Europe. Now it seems, the Capital of Austria is having second thoughts.
more »Local Root Exploit in Udev
Apr 16, 2009The udev subsystem allows the Linux kernel, together with a userland program, to manage device nodes dynamically, adding and removing them at will. It has now been revealed that the communication channel between the kernel and program fails to authenticate, so that users can assume root privileges.
more »Citadel 7.5 Groupware Provides ClamAV Integration
Apr 14, 2009The Citadel project has released version 7.5 of its GPL3-licensed groupware server. The release improves the web interface and countless other details.
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