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A NEW COPYRIGHT LAW IS COMING "And the buzz is that the new [Canadian] law will basically be a copy of the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,huxq,69e6,9l1g,j17rMore stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,ioqq,lhlt,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

RED HAT PLANS TO "OWN" 50% OF SERVER MARKET BY 2015 "But despite conventional wisdom about a battle between Linux and Windows, Windows gains over time are at the expense of 'other,' basically the mainframe..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,h4rn,h92x,9l1g,j17rMore stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,ioqq,lhlt,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

OPEN SOURCE DESKTOPS MEET MANAGED SERVICES "So, you're thinking about offering managed hardware as part of a monthly service contract..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,43ko,afmn,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

TWO KOREAS JOIN FORCES TO DEVELOP LINUX "South and North Korea team up to develop a version of 'Hana Linux (tentatively named)' and set standards..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,2ezd,372v,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

KDE 4: SOME REASONS FOR DESIGN DECISIONS "I already posted a short list of programs and services which will be replaced by something new. However, that list didn't say much about the reasons behind these decisions..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,o43,h82h,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------/-------------------------------------------------------------------

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OPENDOCUMENT FORMAT COMMUNITY STEADFAST DESPITE THEATRICS OFNOW IMPOTENT 'FOUNDATION' "Not only does it appear as though they were on a thin limb with their opinions that ODF should be buried and that CDF should take its place, they crawled out even further when they publicly disclosed that the W3C and IBM shared those opinions as well..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,cgxt,72jw,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

OPENSOLARIS FOLLOWS LINUX TO THE MAINFRAME "Free-wheeling Linux was an improbable enough operating system to be used on IBM's mainframe line, but now an even more unlikely operating system is making an appearance there: Sun Microsystems' Solaris..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,alll,kyzl,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

THE CONVENIENT FICTION OF DISTRIBUTIONS "This distro sux!" "No, that one does!" Interesting arguments, considering distributions are all built with nearly the same ingredients.COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,dk0p,3x2e,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE--GNOME, OOXML, AND ODF: A Q&A "It may not comes as a surprise, then, to hear that in the month that has revolved by since, I've done little but hope that the entire affair would blow over..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,1d54,let3,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

HOIST WITH THEIR OWN FUD: AN OLD MARKETING TACTIC IS BACKFIRING "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, or FUD, is an old sword with a new blade in today's competitive IT world. If you cannot beat 'em, create controversy. But the old tactic is starting to lose its effectiveness..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,5ed,7y6w,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

SATURATION POINT FOR ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE? "It feels a bit like the enterprise open-source market has slowed. Not the sales aspect of the market, but the number of new players entering the market. We're getting greater breadth but not greater depth..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,h6wz,hqe7,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

EATON ANNOUNCES UPS SUPPORT FOR UBUNTU "It enables Ubuntu systems to smoothly integrate with Easton UPS systems and assures communication, monitoring and graceful shutdown during prolonged power disturbances..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,6jua,lg95,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

HARDY ALPHA 1 RELEASED ""Welcome to Hardy Heron Alpha-1, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.04..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,6s7m,fd79,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

FIREFOX BREAKS WEB CANVAS "Millions of people rely on the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, but now some of them might not be able to access the content they want, thanks to the latest update..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,d89e,g1ar,9l1g,j17rMore Security stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,fzmy,6313,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

REVIEW: IBM LOTUS SYMPHONY DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY "Microsoft's Office suite will, typically, account for a large chunk of the small business IT budget, but there aren’t that many alternatives..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,3q0q,fc6d,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

SUN BULLIED, USED THREATS TO GAIN CONTROL OF OPEN SOURCE PROJECT,FORMER OWNER SAYS "Sun used strong-arm tactics and made threats to the owners of an open-source directory project to wrestle away control, according to one of the former owners and creators of the project..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,e7cc,p81,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------OPENOFFICE.ORG

2.3 IMPRESSES "The release of OpenOffice.org 2.3 brings several significant improvements to the open-source office productivity suite..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,l3i1,eso7,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

CULT WATCH 2007: WHO'S DRINKING THE KOOL-AID? "As we wind down another year in technology, it's a good time to check in on the cults and see how they’re doing..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,e26d,68b6,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

WINDOWS IS !EASY, LINUX IS !HARD "I just recently installed MSDE and its associated web data admin on a freshly installed, fully updated windows XP. It was a pain..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,ipor,5wsb,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

GLIMPSING NIGERIA'S DIGITAL LIFELINE "Until recently there was nothing that marked out Galadima primary school as anything out of the ordinary..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,2lqz,tzs,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

OPEN SOURCE MAP SITE FACES SUCCESS AND GROWING PAIN "We sat with Pablo Cecconi from GIS unit at Buenos Aires government to learn more about the city's official map site, built with and running on open source software..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,d3ut,6evf,9l1g,j17r

More Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------SEALED PC RUNS LINUX "ICI Controls has announced a 'completely sealed' PC intended for embedded and industrial applications in wet and dirty environments..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,j871,7glt,9l1g,j17r

More Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------MOBILE LIKES LINUX "I've read an article today about a school in US that equipped its students with a new Asus eeePC 701 laptops. Aside the pedagogical issues, I find that very interesting from technological and social points of view...

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SLACKWARE'S "MAGIC PACKAGE MAKER" "Slackware Linux today features a powerful and easy-to-use package management system, but making Slackware packages has not always been straightforward..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,ld9s,jc9x,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

SOLUTIONBASE: OVERCOME MULTIMEDIA HURDLES IN LINUX "For many, one of the biggest hurdles preventing them from adopting Linux is the difficulties that arise when it comes to dealing with multimedia..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,3v30,36y1,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

LINUX: CREATE YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME SERVER (DNS) "One vital step to hosting your own domain is to set up a domain name server. One nice solution is to use Linux and the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,ltz7,7i1l,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

LINUX VS. IPOD 1-0 "After two years of fightings and trial and errors today I was finally able to rip, encode and store entirely from Linux, and without using iTunes, and aac audio on my iPod nano..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,8veq,hj2d,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

COME FLOCK WITH ME "Just recently, the first stable version of Flock was released. But already, more and more people are downloading it to join the herd..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,baef,c5fl,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

GNU PDF TO FILL MISSING GAP IN FUNCTIONALITY "For many average users, GNU/Linux support for PDF files may seem reasonably advanced. They can create PDF files in programs like OpenOffice.org, read them with programs like Kpdf, and edit them in programs like pdftk or PDFedit..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,9zot,6ynx,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

KDE 4.0 TO BE RELEASED IN JANUARY "The KDE Release Team has decided to release KDE 4.0 this coming January. The release was originally planned for mid-December..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,jpqu,6hey,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

BROWSER SMACKDOWN counting in his entomological quests.COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,8q55,13ki,9l1g,j17rMore Security stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,fzmy,6313,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

FIREFOX HAS 'AT LEAST' 126M USERS "John Lilly, Mozilla's Chief Operating Officer, has estimated that Firefox, the company’s popular open source web browser, is used by at least 126 million people around the world..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,ch86,6llw,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

MYTHS STYMIE LINUX GROWTH "What makes that even more fascinating is that the backlash against Windows Vista is not reason enough to fuel the move to Linux..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,ejia,9ucc,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

UPDATE: OLPC PATENT THREAT ANALYZEDCOMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,5dp0,94n1,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

APACHE GAINS MARKET SHARE "After Apache's market share was shrinking month after month for more than a year it grew again a bit according to Netcraft..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,561n,gwg0,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

Q&A: OPEN-SOURCE BACKER EBEN MOGLEN SAYS SOFTWARE A 'RENEWABLE'RESOURCE "As a lawyer, law professor and software programmer, Eben Moglen is passionate about technology, software and user freedom..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,10yb,436g,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

THE SCARCEEE PC Looking for an Asus Eee PC for the holidays? Good luck. As these reports show, finding one is getting to be no easy task.COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,75yl,aplz,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

FIRST OLPC DEPLOYMENT: NOW IT'S REALIvan Krstic: "This week, Uruguay became the first-ever real,non-pilot deployment site of OLPC XO laptops. And I was thereto hand out the first one..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,33ka,lzdi,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

ODF VS. OOXML: WAR OF THE WORDS CHAPTER 2 "Microsoft acquired this enviable position in each case through a combination of luck, single-minded determination, obsessive attention to detail, and a willingness to play the game fast and hard..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,bkfd,5d5e,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

GOOGLE'S ANDROID VS. APPLE'S IPHONE: WHICH IS MORE SECURE? "I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict Google's Android mobile phone platform is going to prove itself to be more secure than Apple's iPhone in the long run..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,71uu,ka3,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

THINGS THAT BUG ME: ITEM #260199 "But I wonder sometimes if the need to review software can sometimes go too far..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,6qbx,blsr,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3n1v,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r