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Free Software Foundation's Eben Moglen says the updated GPL may put open-source products in conflict with movie studios and Tivo.

Open-Xchange Extends Sales, Services and Training into Eastern Europe and Russia

According to a recent report by Gartner 10% of companies require employees to purchase their own notebooks by 2008.

Traditionally, graphics applications have been divided into raster image and vector image editors, based on the primitives that each category uses. By that logic, the open source world needs only one of each, or it gets accused of wasting "resources" through duplication. But there's another way to look at graphics applications -- by usage. The painting program Krita takes a different approach to working with pixels, which can lead to a very different raster imaging experience.

A new South African eSecurity policy - currently in draft form - will contain a set of guidelines and minimum standards that Government departments will have to adhere to in order to secure their information systems.

For small businesses, the move to a free desktop is hampered by the lack of viable accounting software. Whatever the benefits of switching away from Windows, most businesses can't ignore the convenience, management information, and reduced accountants' fees they enjoy by using the likes of Sage or QuickBooks. While free software fans are able to restrict their software choices in the pursuit of ideological purity, the typical small business owner has to be more pragmatic.

Hello, Mandriva today announced a new agreement with HP to distribute Mandriva Linux 2006 pre-loaded computers in 37 countries in Latin America. The deal confirms the momentum built by Mandriva in Latin America, following its acquisition of Conectiva, the number one publisher in this region. It further demonstrates Mandriva's position as a global player.

The European Union will make another attempt to impose software patents, according to the founder of the Free Software Foundation.

Sharing, ripping, charging for CRM

Our staff has been busy reviewing the draft of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). The license contains a number of changes from the second version of the GPL (GPLv2), though many of the changes are minor and seem to be intended to clarify terms or conditions in the GPLv2 rather than being drastic changes in the spirit of the license. The biggest and most important changes come in the areas of digital rights management, distribution, and patents. Let's take a look at the differences and see what the GPLv3 means to free software developers and users.

Linux distribution, the Fedora Project, releases its second beta of the Fedora Core 5, recommended for battle-tested Linux users only.

The latest SimplyMEPIS release candidate, 3.4-3 RC1, is available for download, MEPIS creator and lead developer Warren Woodford said Saturday. The release is expected to alleviate recent problems with parallel printer compatibility, Woodford said. With this release, the free Linux distribution also moves to KDE 3.4.3 and the newest Firefox 1.5 stable build.

64-bit users will be happy to hear that a lot of functionality is ready out-of-the-box with SUSE Linux 10. There are some hurdles to contend with, but rather than just point them out, Rob Reilly shows you how to move past these hurdles and get a 100% efficient Linux laptop.

The company might sell services designed to ease customer participation in the open-source programming community.

Opinion: Installing the Drupal content management system is too much of a battle, but works well once the fight is over.

Chipmaker plans to acquire Kreatel Communications to boost Internet-based TV services.

Microsoft is planning its third Windows XP Service Pack (SP) for release in 2007, three years after the last SP, in order to concentrate engineering resources on Windows Vista.

The company has set a preliminary release date of the second-half of 2007 for SP 3, for use with Windows XP Home and Professional editions, meaning that the pack will ship after the release of Windows Vista, which is due in the second-half of 2006.

Please remember this from one of LXer features:
Judge Sporkin, the Federal Judge who refused to consent to a Microsoft-Justice Department settlement wrote:

"This Court cannot ignore the obvious. Here is the dominant firm in the software industry admitting it `preannounces' products to freeze the current software market and thereby defeat the marketing plans of competitors that have products ready for market. Microsoft admits that the preannouncement is solely for the purpose of having an adverse impact on a competitor's product. Its counsel states it has advised its client that the practice is perfectly legal and it may continue the practice. This practice of an alleged monopolist would seem to contribute to the acquisition, maintenance, or exercise of market share. . . .

In order to help move along the process of starting an "open source geospatial foundation" there will be a face-to-face meeting in Chicago, Westin O'Hare, on February 4, 2006, hosted by Autodesk.

Now that the first unprivileged Xen domain is set up, it's time to get the cluster up and running.

Aplix says its Java virtual machine (JVM) is a component of the first shipping mobile phones powered by Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP2420 applications processors, the 902i-series phones from NEC and Panasonic that work with NTT DoCoMo's 3G mobile network.