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M$ opens up its old Office formats:

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/ar ... ormats.htm

The article says it's only for conversion to new Office formats so I'm not sure how open it is. If it's for everything, it's good.
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Sh!tty deal:

http://torrentfreak.com/shareaza-impost ... um-080225/

French RIAA does a hostile takeover of an open source company, violates the GPL, and then sues the original creators.
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Creator of Tetris says free software is horrible:

http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/26/1859249.shtml


I think he's still just bitter about losing out on licensing Tetris.
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10 years after the Free Software Summit:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture ... t-10th.ars
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M$ emails Blender and asks how they can help:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 1115151164
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Why people don't get the free business model:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/26/1628246.shtml
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Munich and Vienna on going open source:

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/06/04/0043239.shtml

Munich stays the course while Vienna goes back.
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The GPL was just found to have legal legs in court:

http://www.reuters.com/article/technolo ... 2920080814

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ement.html

Just because you give away your code for free does not mean you give away your copyright. What with all the copyright nonsense going on, I think this is good. They can't have it both ways.
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What between the economic hard times and the realization that (because of Vista) you don't need to upgrade your computer OS, open source is experiencing a surge:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/01/1555207.shtml

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/01/0317244.shtml
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While open source doesn't necessarily mean Linux, I'll keep this post here.

M$ open source foundation, CodePlex, and an overview of it:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/18 ... ?art_pos=8
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Open source developer wins $100,000 in trial:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/22 ... art_pos=11
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Software consortium says that if you use open source, you're a pirate:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24 ... ?art_pos=4
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Coapp:

https://launchpad.net/coapp


Open source.........on windows?
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Ford uses Arduino and its own open source developer suite so that an app-like store is possible for its cars:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24030
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