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Open Source Pioneer Larry Augustin Joins Fonality's Board of Directors

[Ed: Note: You have to click through an ad to get to the story. - dcparris]

Novell, through its CoolSolutions community-relations website, is conducting an online public survey to determine which Windows-only applications are most likely to keep Windows users from migrating to Linux. The company also wants to know which Windows-only apps would be most popular on Linux desktops if they were ported to Linux.

Mathieu Allard, the free software advocate who ran for the New Democrats in the riding of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, finished third in the Canadian national election on January 23. Since he was not elected, he is returning to his job as executive assistant to Christine Melnick, the Minister of Housing and Social Services in the Manitoba provincial government. He plans to look for new ways to promote the use of free software in government.

Microsoft may not be off the hook with the European Commission (EC), despite this week's sweeping promise to license Windows Server communications source code. An EC spokesperson has reportedly called it "premature" to assume that access alone to the code would solve the problem of Microsoft's failure to comply.

With the Zoep Firefox extension, VoIPSter is bringing to the Internet the ability to make a phone call at the click of a button from an Internet browser.

SpreadFirefox seeks to promote Firefox through living, breathing human beings rather than meticulously orchestrated campaigns. We don't spend any time developing "The Message". The message is the Firefox product itself, and we've found that our users can spread it more genuinely and passionately than anything money can buy.

Red Hat and Novell have released patches for a critical security hole in their Linux distributions, which stems from a vulnerability in the KDE desktop environment.

Dianne Ursini, CEO and founder of Technalign, wants to capture the desktop Linux market, and she believes MEPIS is the distribution that will catapult her company to the top. Technalign is the official distributor of the boxed retail version of MEPIS, and while the company hasn't turned a profit selling Linux yet, Ursini says it is "turning around."

A vulnerability was discovered in the ADOdb and can be exploited by hackers doing SQL injection attacks. The vulnerability only works on the PostgreSQL users. Andy Staudacher discovered the vulnerability and Secunia reported the issue as moderately critical on Tuesday.

[Ed: Includes brief info about DSN bug fixes as well. - dcparris]

South African search engine, Jonga, is being indexed again by Google after a 10-day hiatus from Google's™ search results.

Eben Moglen's life just got a lot busier. The Columbia Law School professor and attorney representing the Free Software Foundation has the new role of explaining and overseeing the update to the GPL. That document, being revised for the first time in 15 years, is not only the embodiment of the free software movement's principles but also the legal foundation for thousands of open source software programs from Linux to MySQL.

Following news last week that the Firefox browser now has 11 percent of the UK market, experts told web developers to ensure sites work with open-source browsers as well as Internet Explorer, or risk alienating potential customers who cannot fully access sites.

Film maker David Madie wants to bring the story of the FLOSS movement in Africa to your local cineplex.

DataCore Offers Rapidly Growing Financial Services Company a Low-Cost, Scalable SAN Solution Plus Fast Disk Backup and Recovery Capabilities

While identifying Microsoft as the source of most IT security vulnerabilities, respondents to a SearchOpenSource.com survey also found holes in Linux and open source software (OSS) security.

Systems Solutions accelerates US presence for leading open source collaboration vendor

This time the debate around software patents in Europe is going to be 'bigger and more complex' according to an anti-patent campaigner

[Ed: Start now getting ready for the next round of Fun with Software Patents! - dcparris]

The first Australian linux conference held outside Australia rolls into town

[Ed: Find out who will be at Dunedin - dcparris]

For 35 years, the Unix operating system has been a mainstay of the computer industry, from its origins as a time-sharing system used by horn-rimmed academics to its central role running some of today's most powerful servers. But enthusiasm for this sophisticated piece of code is in decline as sales flatten, while Linux, the Unix-like alternative, thrives. Which leads to the inevitable question: Is Unix itself on the wane?

CyberLink launched PowerCinema Linux, providing an easy means of converting the Linux PC into a feature-rich TV entertainment center ideally suited for PC vendors targeting the CE market.