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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.

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.

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.

10 years after the Free Software Summit:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture ... t-10th.ars

M$ emails Blender and asks how they can help:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 1115151164

Why people don't get the free business model:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/26/1628246.shtml

M$ free for a year:

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek ... ater-25078

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.

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.

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

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

Open source developer wins $100,000 in trial:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/22 ... art_pos=11

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

Coapp:

https://launchpad.net/coapp


Open source.........on windows?

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