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On August 28th, 2015 with 167 comments
An anonymous reader writes: According to a new report by Cloud Market, Ubuntu is more than twice as popular on Amazon EC2 as all other operating systems...
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On February 11th, 2015 with 208 comments
jones_supa writes Open source software can always be acquired without charge, but can still incur significant development costs. Elementary OS wants to make...
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On August 5th, 2014 with 41 comments
ectoman (594315) writes Opensource.com has a summary of an interview with Michael Tiemann, co-founder of Cygnus Solutions and one of the world's first open...
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On February 7th, 2012 with 356 comments
LinuxScribe writes "An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the...
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On August 11th, 2009 with 585 comments
PiSkyHi writes "I understand that if I build an application that links with a library that is licensed under GPLv2, I must also make my application GPL2. I can...
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On November 28th, 2008 with 144 comments
Matt Asay writes "On October 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard sent a complaint to an open-source competitor, GroundWork, asking GroundWork to stop revealing HP's...
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On October 15th, 2008 with 437 comments
nerdyH writes "As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive. Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is...
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On January 1st, 2008 with 147 comments
Anonymous writes "At the end of this piece at Channelweb.com, it's reported that Microsoft paid Novell $355.6 million last year as part of their...
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On June 3rd, 2007 with 710 comments
Preedit writes to tell us that those busy folks over at InformationWeek have been scrutinizing yet more SEC filings, and Novell and Microsoft aren't the only...
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On January 21st, 2006 with 38 comments
segphault writes "Ars Technica is covering Motorola's acquisition of Kreatel, a European company that designs Linux-based Internet Television Protocol (IPTV)...
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On January 9th, 2006 with 36 comments
C. Craig Ross let me know that the 2006 Linux Symposium has issued their 2006 call for papers The conference is being held from July 19th thru the 22nd up in...
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On June 9th, 2005 with 202 comments
Michael J. Ross writes "As Windows users hear more about Linux, they may be intrigued to give it a try, if only to learn what the buzz is about. But a major...
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On May 17th, 2005 with 11 comments
rossy.co.uk writes "The first LQ Radio show was posted today. The show is hosted by the LQ forum founder jeremy and 3 panelists all of whom are forum...
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On February 28th, 2005 with 487 comments
Dolda2000 writes "Seeking to achieve 100% software freedom, RMS is now calling for action for a free BIOS. From the article: "The most uncooperative company is...
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On February 16th, 2005 with 240 comments
Dave Zatz writes "Tivo, struggling to keep customers and inch towards profitability as execs step down,
has continued to shift focus from pure PVR...
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On October 20th, 2004 with 51 comments
Mark Shuttleworth writes "Ubuntu 4.10, 'The Warty Warthog Release,' hit the wire today, with Gnome 2.8, Kernel 2.6 and the very best of Debian in a slick,...
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On September 17th, 2004 with 68 comments
Alex Moskalyuk writes "'Open source is great, but where do we start?' This is probably one of the most frequently asked questions in the corporate world when...
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On September 15th, 2004 with 271 comments
psykelus writes "Ubuntu Linux, a Debian-based distro (formerly flying the flag of 'no-name-yet.com') annouced a preview of their first release (Warty Warthog)...
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On June 17th, 2004 with 213 comments
Read on below for tonight's edition of Slashback, with followups to several previous Slashdot stories, including the Linux-in-Munich saga, Harlan Ellison's...
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On February 16th, 2003 with 111 comments
Robin Rowe of the Film Gimp project has a piece running on NewsForge (also part of OSDN) that says "Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the...
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