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No more Symbian on smart phones from Nokia-> 0

Submitted by raffe on Thursday June 24 2010, @06:53AM

raffe writes "Nokia is moving away from Symbian for its N-series and is moving to MeeGo, the cooperation with Intel. MeeGo is based on Linux. Just as I speculated back in 2007."
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Comment: It depends (Score 4, Insightful) 306

by raffe on Thursday April 23 2009, @08:34AM (#27686347) Attached to: Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks

It depends on the license of the software. Always.

cifs/smb in solaris kernel 0

Submitted by raffe on Thursday November 22 2007, @09:45AM

raffe writes "In a blog by Sun egiuneer Alan Wright you can read that they are implementing CIFS in the solaris kernel: "We had been working on an independent CIFS implementation for several years, and we would use this as the basis for the Solaris CIFS project, but it would take time for everything necessary to fall into place: there is a big difference between what management at Sun would like to happen and what the engineers at Sun will endorse. [...]What does this mean for Samba on Solaris? Not a lot really. ""

Patent case against red hat and novell 0

Submitted by raffe on Friday October 12 2007, @02:33AM

raffe writes "From Groklaw: IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement They claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, case no. 2:2007cv00447, IP Innovation, LLC et al v. Red Hat Inc. et al, in Texas. You might recall the patent was used in litigation against Apple in April 2007, and Beta News reported at the time that it's a 1991 Xerox PARC patent. But ars technica provided the detail that it references earlier patents going back to 1984 claim to have the rights to U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects issued Dec. 10, 1991 along with two other similar patents. So in July one Microsoft executive arrives; then as of October 1, there is the second, a patent guy. October 9, IP Innovation, a subsidiary, sues Red Hat. And Novell. So much for being Microsoft's little buddy. I think SCO II has arrived"

A conversation with IBM's top intellectual propert 0

Submitted by raffe on Thursday August 16 2007, @06:09AM

raffe writes "Scobleizer sits down with IBM's top intellectual property lawyer and has a short interview about GPL and patents. A really interesting interview that gets you thinking about a big corporations perspective on intellectual property. Worth a few minutes to see."

Google Partners with OIN "To Help Linux Thrive-> 0

Submitted by

lymeca

on Tuesday August 07 2007, @04:01AM

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 who promises not to leverage their own patent portfolio against key applications available on GNU/Linux, including many GNU projects as well as Linux itself. As Chris DiBona, Google's open source programs manager puts it:

Linux plays a vital role at Google, and we're strongly committed to supporting the Linux developer community. We believe that by becoming an Open Invention Network licensee, we can encourage Linux development and foster innovation in a way that benefits everyone. We're proud to participate in OIN's mission to help Linux thrive.
This marks an important and symbolic step forward in the battle between Free/Open Source Software and the looming specter of software patent infringements in nations which recognise them. Google's support bolsters the OIN's effectiveness as a shield against patent attacks against GNU/Linux and many popular applications which run on it."
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OpenOffice.org to fully support PDF editing 0

Submitted by Juan Rey on Tuesday July 31 2007, @06:49AM

Juan Rey writes "According to Kai Ahrens' blog, Sun OOo Graphics development team is working in order to get a native import filter into OpenOffice.org.

Development is advanced and a prototype is on the way."

Ingmar Bergman dead 0

Submitted by

mernil

on Monday July 30 2007, @04:59AM

mernil writes "Legendary Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89. He died on Monday morning at his home on the island of Fårö, his daughter Eva Bergman told news agency TT. Bergman won three Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, for The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander. He also won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, presented at the 1971 Oscars ceremony."

John C. Dvoraks switch story. 0

Submitted by raffe on Friday July 27 2007, @03:54AM

raffe writes "Hell froze over! John C. Dvorak, long time hater of the mac now likes it."I have no plans to move to the Mac platform for my personal use. That said, I have noticed that I've been recommending the machine to friends and neighbors when they want to know what kind of system they should buy.""

Microsoft Drops GPLv3 Like a Hot Rock 1

Submitted by

pilsner.urquell

on Friday July 06 2007, @04:01AM

pilsner.urquell writes "Microsoft yesterday issued a statement proclaiming that is isn't bound by GPLv3. Grolaw has a very humorous article about Microsoft's statement."