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Submission + - GPL3 Drives Wedge Between Novell and Microsoft (com.com)

Submitted by

Bruce Perens

on Friday July 06, 2007 @05:58PM

Bruce Perens writes: "In this news.com story, Microsoft declares that its "Novell Support Coupons" will not apply to GPL3 software, in an effort to escape from language in GPL3 that would extend Microsoft's patent protection from Novell customers only — to all users of the software. Novell declares that they're going to include GPL3 software in their distribution. Eben Moglen, Richard Stallman and the GPL3 committees and contributors deserve a (free) beer, for having successfully emasculated Microsoft's attempt to divide the community. Instead, the wedge has now been driven between Microsoft and Novell."

Submission + - Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise

Submitted by digihome on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:46PM

digihome writes: The year 2007 might be remembered as the year when Linux corporate desktops stood up to Windows Vista. CRN.com evaluated offerings from the four leading Linux enterprise desktop alternatives: Linspire Five-O, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.0 and Xandros 4 Professional. http://www.crn.com/software/198500305

Submission + - Google Map Spammers not so successful

Submitted by wilko11 on Monday January 29, 2007 @03:27PM

wilko11 writes: It seems that the people who wanted to Spam Google Maps may not have been too successful. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Google flyover had to skip many of the areas that were promised.

Submission + - Google Defuses Googlebombs

Submitted by

John C. Worsley

on Friday January 26, 2007 @04:54AM

John C. Worsley writes: "Google announced today a modification to their search algorithm that minimizes well-known googlebombing exploits. Searches on "miserable failure" and their ilk apparently no longer bring up political targets. From the article:

"By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead.""

Via Debuts Smallest PC Mobo Format Yet 159

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday January 26, 2007 @03:46AM from the angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Via is readying a media-oriented motherboard in what could be the next popular size for small form-factor PCs: Pico-ITX. The 'Epia PX' board measures 3.9 x 2.8 inches and features a 1GHz C7 processor, along with rich audio/video I/O, albeit mostly on pin headers. Pico-ITX measures 3.9 x 2.8 inches (10 x 7.2 cm) — exactly half the surface area of Via's already small 4.7 x 4.7-inch (12 x 12cm) Nano-ITX standard, and considerably smaller than the original 6.7-inch square (17 x 17cm) mini-ITX standard."

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by ajdlinux on Sunday March 26, 2006 @11:53PM

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