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Linux Business

Submission + - Another Linux Vendor Signs Patent Pact with MS

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RLiegh
RLiegh writes: "This article at Yahoo! news talks about the latest in a growing list of patent agreements reached between Microsoft and vendors. In a deal struck between Linspire (nee' "Lindows") and Microsoft, Linspire will be granted license to use True Type Fonts and "various code" that would allow for Linspire users to talk voice on Windows Live Messenger as well as the usual patent protection for Linspires' customers. In return, among other things, Linspire will make Microsoft's search engine the default search on PCs shipped with their OS.

Kevin Carmony, the CEO for Linspire, approached Microsoft a year and a half ago, according to the article."
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Ian Murdock joins SUN

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RLiegh
RLiegh writes: "In an entry on his Weblog, Ian Murdock announced that he is joining Sun Microsystems as their chief operating platforms officer which, as he put it in his opensolaris post "basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux." In all likelihood one of his first priorities will be "closing the usability gap" between Solaris and Linux. Of course, being the founder of Debian -the operating system which forms the base of knoppix and Ubuntu- Ian Murdock needs no introduction to even casual slashdot readers."
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Sun joins the Free Software Foundation

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RLiegh
RLiegh writes: "Arstechnica.com reports that Sun has joined the FSF Corporate Patron program. The article explains that the FSF corporate program allows companies to provide financial assistance to the FSF in return for license consulting services. The article goes on to observe that this move is doubtlessly motivated by Sun's interest in the direction that GPL3 is going to take.

Now that sun has opened up Java and become an FSF corporate sponsor...could the move to dual license Opensolaris under the GPL3 be far behind?"

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