SFLC Files Lawsuit Against 14 Companies for GPL Violations
Dec 16, 2009Attorneys at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) have filed a lawsuit against 14 electronics companies for copyright infringements. The suit accuses the companies of selling products containing BusyBox software in violation of the GPL.
more »GNOME: Split from GNU Project?
Dec 14, 2009Richard Stallman's strong position against proprietary applications is butting heads with some members of the GNOME Foundation. A call to split with Stallman's GNU Project is being considered.
more »Bada: New Mobile Platform from Samsung
Dec 10, 2009Following a rather vague announcement in November, Samsung has now released details about their open smartphone development platform bada to the Web.
more »SUSE Studio Now Supports Version 11.2
Dec 08, 2009With SUSE Studio, individual versions of openSUSE can be created with just a few clicks of the mouse.
more »Developers' Favorite: RText in Version 1.0.0
Dec 04, 2009The Java, cross-platform RText editor has achieved version 1.0.0. It recognizes numerous programming languages and otherwise preserves most of its usual features.
more »Torvalds Releases Kernel 2.6.32
Dec 03, 2009Having been delayed by the Kernel Summit and the Thanksgiving holidays, Linus Torvalds finally releases Kernel 2.6.32.
more »Qt 4.6: Nokia Provides Multitouch and Symbian Compatibility
Dec 01, 2009With Qt 4.6 the Finnish mobile giant has made its developer platform Symbian-compatible. Furthermore, it now adds Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.6 and the upcoming Maemo 6 to its list of supported platforms.
more »ApacheCon Presentations in Free Streaming Archive
Nov 24, 2009The Apache Foundation had its big conference November 2-6 in Portland OR and Linux Pro Magazine was there with its camera. To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the foundation, some highlights from the comprehensive program of talks are available for free in our video archives now.
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