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Skype has discontinued its appeal of a 2007 German court ruling which found that the VoIP company was violating the open source General Public License . via Ars Technica

"We knew this had the potential to be inflammatory"

Aras Corp. was a small, struggling software maker that stirred up a hornet's nest early last year, when it made a pair of seemingly contradictory decisions. via LinuxWorld

"We're also looking at whether we can take some of the work being done [with TBB] to get better performance scalability"

C++ developers using Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris OS have a new tool from Intel for optimizing their applications to run on multicore processors, Intel said on Thursday. via Infoworld

"CNR makes it easy to install commercial software and purchase services which aren't available via the Linux Mint Software Portal or the Debian package manager"

Linspire announced the support for the Linux Mint operating system. To gain access to the free CNR Service, Linux Mint 4.0 users simply install the free CNR Client that is available at CNR.com. With Linux Mint ... via WEBSPHERE Journal

Google Backs Open-Source CERT Group - Via Slashdot : alphadogg points to a Network World story, excerpting "Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source ... via Privacy Digest

Sun Microsystems officially launched OpenSolaris today. Available pre-built as a combo live/install CD, the initial binary distribution download of the OS features a GNOME user interface, highly fault tolerant ... via DesktopLinux

IT managers often assume that open source software is more secure than proprietary commercial software. via PC World

Ubuntu Linux 7.04 is now available for Sharp's Zaurus PDAs. The 0.1 release comes with a minimalist filesystem that can be launched in an emulator, enhanced with software from the vast Ubuntu archives, and then ... via DesktopLinux