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The ongoing intellectual property fight between Furthermore and Miro shows the need to address possible IP conflicts before they become public or courtroom battles.

nVidia has kicked ATI hard with the quality of its Linux drivers and all of my Linux-friendly friends tell me how Nvidia is several light years ahead of ATI in Linux driver development. I heard some horrible stories from high end IT specialists, admins and programmers who told me that ATI's driver don't even have hardware cursor and that it's damn hard to install it. I actually tried it and it was a true nightmare.

Sun has made the latest version of Java 2 Standard Edition available, the first new code since 1.4.2 last July and the biggest overhaul since the release of 1.4 over two years ago.

If Microsoft Corp. had any hope of seeing Munich back away from its landmark decision last year to abandon Windows software in favor of open source Linux, that hope faded Wednesday when city officials decided to move ahead with their migration project.

After a re-examination, the U.S. Patent Office has rejected a patent previously granted to Microsoft for a Windows file format.

Expanding the imprint of open-source software, the Apache Software Foundation on Monday will launch an open-source project around business process management server.

An embedded Linux training and services company in the South of France has published 500 pages of embedded Linux training materials and presentations under an open source license. The materials are available in French and English, and have been contributed to the community by Free Electronis, based near Sophia Antipolis.

Instant messaging is everywhere nowadays, but people who use it may be surprised to know how trivial it is to listen in on their private conversations. Snoopers can use tools like tcpdump and aimsniff to tap into the contents of the messages. But with a little free software, IMers can be secure in the knowledge their conversations are, well, secure.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- ISP owner Robert Craddock liked Microsoft's recent Sender ID antispam proposal and patent application so much that he came up with a nearly identical system -- except he did it long before Microsoft made its version public. In fact, he started using the system he now calls Mail-Block back in 1998.

Red Hat Inc. has gone scavenging among Netscape's remains, agreeing Thursday to pay America Online Inc. (AOL) up to $23 million in cash for the assets of Netscape Communications Corp.'s Security Solutions unit.

The NSW Opposition has asked the government to explain why it has released a tender for provision of Linux software and services before making public the details of a departmental investigation into open source software.

New features include UTF-8 support, manifest typing and improved concurrency.

The folks who defend democracy and help make American jobs and dollars in foreign markets deserve to vote as much as anyone, but during the past year leading up to the November national election, these military and other out-of-country voters have had a harder time than anyone.

Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz, who speaks often of innovation in sales methods and not just technology, is seeking a patent on the company's per-employee software pricing plan, News.com has learned.

Sun Microsystems, owner and godfather of the Java franchise, today rolled out version 5.0 of its Java 2 Platform Standard Edition, nicknamed Tiger. To the surprise of no one, the company called it the biggest and most important release to date of the enterprise application development platform.

IBM Corp. will spend more than $1 million to help fund a Linux technology center in Brazil. The center, created in conjunction with the Brazilian government, aims to train 700 public service professionals on the use of Linux by year's end.

Networking and Linux specialist Novell's company-wide rollout of Linux on the desktop is falling behind schedule.

Linux Networx, a maker of Linux server clusters, recently announced it would launch a service to help customers conduct airflow simulations in their data centers to avoid overheating.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said that is looking for ways to work more closely with developers of the Open Office open source project, while at the same time, apparently reserving the right to sue them, according to a legal agreement between Microsoft and Open Office's major sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc., made public this week.

Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux 4 products, scheduled for release early next year, will support five Indian languages, reflecting the growing importance of the Indian market, according to an executive of the Raleigh, North Carolina-based Linux company.