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Submission + - Linux to be installed in every Russian school (cnews.ru) 2

Submitted by J_Omega on Friday September 21, 2007 @10:50PM

J_Omega writes: According to the Russian IT site CNews, Linux is slated to be installed in every Russian school by 2009. The article makes it appear that it will be going by the (unimaginative and nationalist) name "Russian OS." As stated in the article: "The main aim of the given work is to reduce dependence on foreign commercial software and provide education institutions with the possibility to choose whether to pay for commercial items or to use the software, provided by the government." Initial testing installations are supposed to begin next year in select districts. Is 2008/09 the year of Linux on the (Russian) desktop?

Submission + - Google Shoots for the Moon (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by

djproctor

on Friday September 21, 2007 @01:47AM

djproctor writes: "After pioneering software that allows people to explore Earth in unprecedented detail, Google set its sights on mapping the moon. Now the popular Internet search engine wants to help send a robot there. Yesterday, the Mountain View, California-based company announced that it will sponsor a $30 million prize for the first privately funded lunar robotic rover. Story by Andrew Lawler, http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/914/1"

Submission + - MediaDefender gets source code cracked!

Submitted by

DragonTHC

on Friday September 21, 2007 @01:45AM

DragonTHC writes: "Slyck news is reporting that MediaDefender has been cracked again and this time, their source code for anti-freedom efforts against p2p and bit torrent. The fifty megabyte download is by the same group that brought you the MediaDefender emails, MediaDefender-Defender."

Submission + - SFLC files first U.S. GPL violation lawsuit (lwn.net)

Submitted by FPCat on Thursday September 20, 2007 @07:02PM

FPCat writes: The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a GPL violation lawsuit. "The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) on behalf of its clients, two principal developers of BusyBox, against Monsoon Multimedia, Inc. BusyBox is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities commonly used in embedded systems and is open source software licensed under GPL version 2."

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