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Cables and Connectors: Planning your Data Center
When it comes to data center, the wrong physical set up can compromise your system's efficiency. Read this white paper to learn how to properly set up your data center.
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Why is Apple licensing Liquidmetal? Can you say 'bounceable iPhones?'
Apple and Liquidmetal agreed to a licensing deal according to a new SEC filing. Now the big question: What will Apple use it for? Bounceable iPhones?
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A closer look at Office Starter 2010
Office 2010 Starter is a new option that replaces the old, time-bombed trial versions from earlier Office versions. This no-nonsense splash screen explains what’s available in the “reduced...
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Mozilla Public License to get overhaul in 2010
The 10-year-old Mozilla Public License will be updated by the end of 2010. At the open source organization's weekly meeting Monday, Mozilla Corp president Mitchell Baker announced that the MPL...
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An Easy Way to Protect Your Intellectual Property
One question I get on a regular basis is from companies wondering how to get the maximum exposure for their white papers and other material but not loose complete control over their intellectual...
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Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)
Only suckers pay retail. You don't have to pay full price for Windows 7. Most people have much better options available, if you just know where to look. I've researched deals in three separate...
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Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!
If you purchase a discounted upgrade edition of Windows 7, can you use it to perform a clean installation of the operating system on a PC that doesn't currently have Windows installed? The answer,...
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OpenID biggest government boost yet for open source
All this means opponents of the current Administration are bound to see OpenID as some sort of "mark of the beast." But if Bush did it Democrats would feel that way, so you can't win.
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Common public license merged into Eclipse
An FAQ on the merger notes that the two licenses were already very similar. "A quick read of the two licenses will quickly show that they are very very close," writes Mike Milinkovich, who heads...
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IBM passes open source license baton to Eclipse
IBM and the Eclipse Foundation have taken a stand against license proliferation by announcing today that the Common Public License (CPL) has been officially superseded by the Eclipse Public...
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Europe gets its own GPL
Europe now has its own version of the GPL. It's got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept.
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Is the new open source Eurolicense eurotrash?
This does not keep companies from making a commercial distribution from code created using the datagrid. It's just a "no backsies" clause. If you're going commercial with something you have an...
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Court: Open source licenses are copyright licenses
Open source licenses create a condition on the scope of the license – and thus expose violators to injunctions under copyright law – the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled...
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CEO of dissolved Open Country buys management code, launches Linux, VM provisioning company
Open Country, once a rising star in the open source management software market, closed doors in 2007. But its former CEO, Laurent Gharda, isn't giving up on its software. Gharda acquired the...
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The legislation behind a national ID
Federal regulations creating a uniform national ID card are looming. Read the full text of the relevant section of the law.
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Vista virtualization: The bigger picture
Microsoft has belatedly gotten around to relaxing its licensing rules so that customers can install any edition of Windows Vista in a virtual machines, including the less expensive Home Basic and...
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OpenProj was 10th most-popular post here for 2007
When we talked to CEO Marc O'Brien he said a license had not yet been chosen. Eventually the Common Public Attribution License was chosen. This license was approved by the OSI in July.
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Halloween XII: What's really behind those Microsoft licenses?
A look back at the Halloween Documents, scary movies, and open source.
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GPLv3 Myth #5: GPLv3 is the best license for software
This article concludes a five part series on the latest version of the most commonly used software license: GPL. In this final part we ask the most important question of all: is GPLv3 the best...
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How much do open source license terms matter?
In practice the relief available to an open source vendor is limited by the fact that the customer has the code. You're trusting them to treat you fairly, under the terms of the license, but the...
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Sugar sweet for GPLv3
The big news today is that SugarCRM has bowed to community pressure and will release the next version of its CRM software under an OSI-approved license. The bigger news may be the identity of the...
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