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Tech Data Corporation recently announced the availability of 25 Red Hat professional training courses through TDEducation, the IT products distributor's technical training and certification services team. TDEducation will provide Red Hat resellers with an array of services to ease the certification process, including pricing, scheduling and registration assistance for training courses nationwide. |
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"The affect on sales year over year, for Novell's first three quarters of our fiscal year, which ends Oct. 31 -- our Linux business was up 243 percent year over year," said Novell exec Justin Steinman. |
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Do you remember when Ray Beckerman asked to pick your brain about an upcoming deposition? Well, he tells me that a case (with the same expert who was deposed) is about to go to trial now, and he thought you'd like to know about it. If there are any folks in or near Duluth, Minnesota, who would like to attend the trial, it is set for Tuesday at 9 AM. I'll let Ray tell you about the details, but if anyone does go, please send us a report. This is history in the making, in that this is the very first RIAA jury trial to actually go to trial in all the years since the RIAA began to sue people four or so years ago. I gather they tried to get out of this one too, but now it's set and it will happen. |
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Bloomberg covers the latest financial results from Red Hat, Inc." Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5 software, released in March, sold faster than expected last quarter, increasing cash flow. |
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BR-Linux.org presents a community interview with Novell, here's a summary of the responses:" One of the questions, sent by the reader semente, wasn't answered at all, other answers look evasive, some of them repeat known company policy without adding much more meat to it (the deal was about interoperability, you know), but most of them may reveal more than a glimpse of unfiltered opinion: ... |
- The “final -rc release” for 2.6.23 wasn’t, so point to -rc8.
- Added an entry on credential records.
- Added an entry on FS-Cache.
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NEWPORT - Nicholas Benson is the first Rhode Islander to win a National Endowment of the Arts National Heritage Fellowship. But the 43-year-old stone carver likes to think the award also honors the 300-year-old history of the John Stevens Shop on Thames Street. |
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" Which are Novell adoption plans regarding GPLv3? (Knux) Would Novell adopt the GPLv3 licensing in any of its software? What are the reasons? (semente) |
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eWeek Channel Insider: "Tech Data announced on Sept. 26 the availability of 25 Red Hat professional training courses leading to Red Hat Certified Technician and Red Hat Certified Engineer certifications...". |
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IT Pro: "Online gadget specialist I Want One of Those (IWOOT) has chosen to deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell as part of its ongoing open source strategy..." |
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How different reality often is from flame wars, particularly when the subject is legal. The Software Freedom Law Center has just announced that it
"has carefully reviewed the lineage of the open source Atheros wireless
driver for Linux and determined which portions can be distributed
under the ISC license (also known as the 2-clause BSD license)" [the full analysis is here]: The licensing situation for the Atheros driver is complex because much
of it was originally derived from an OpenBSD project called ar5k. This
original code is licensed under the ISC license, but Linux code is
typically licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL
places specific additional requirements on distributors of software to
ensure that its users are able to obtain the software's source code,
and freely to copy, modify, and redistribute all subsequent modified
versions.
Ultimately, all the copyright holders of the Linux ath5k-driver code,
derived from ar5k, have been contacted and have agreed to license
their changes under the ISC license, thus allowing improvements to be
re-incorporated into OpenBSD. One of the three historical branches of
the code reviewed by SFLC, however, included portions that are only
licensed under the GPL, and SFLC has determined that it would be very
difficult to re-incorporate that code into OpenBSD. So now you know why it took a while to get an answer. They were contacting all the authors. So much for hotheads. SFLC also released some guidance for developers who wish to incorporate code with a permissive license into a GPL program. Here it is. There is specific information on how to preserve copyright notices in a project that already uses a file-by-file approach instead of one single copyright file, as most GPL software does it, and there is a paper on what is and isn't copyrightable. And going forward, there is advice regarding dual licensing. |
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Microsoft, antitrust and innovation
-- by Georg C. F. Greve
If one were to believe Microsoft, antitrust law is for
sore losers who are too lazy to innovate, and the decision
of the European Court of Justice against Microsoft was to the
detriment of consumers around the world. One might even believe that
any company with large enough market share would now have to fear the
wrath of the European Commission and its anti-innovation
bloodhounds. |
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We have no idea where the markets are headed in the near term. In fact, we do not pay much heed to the Sensex as it is dominated by only a handful of stocks, says Rahul Goel. |
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Commercial Linux and middleware distributor Red Hat reported its financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter yesterday, and Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, also announced that the company has been working on a reorganization he called "20/20" that will change the way the company does engineering, sales, and marketing for its various product lines in ... |
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HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 on a Debian Etch system..." |
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INTEREST in the Oireachtas competitions, which are to be held in Mayo this year, has exceeded all expectations forcing the organ-ising committee to extend the deadline for entries to all competitions to the end of September. |
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In the transcript of the September 18 bankruptcy hearing, one of SCO's lawyers mentioned the phrase "the core of bankruptcy jurisdiction" and indicated that SCO believes that in the end it will be the Bankruptcy Court, not Utah's District Court, that should decide how much of the Sun and Microsoft money should go to Novell. Of course, Novell says Utah should finish the job it started. I promised to translate that legal code, so to speak, about "core" into English for you, but first I had to study it myself, and I talked to some bankruptcy lawyers, to make sure I understood it. I think I do now, so here goes. Are you ready for some Anna Nicole Smith? |
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I?m been noticing a lot of frustration lately with the dominance of Wikipedia in search results. And, I?ll admit, I never felt like I really understood why they get so much love from Google until I started blogging. Just for some background, I found a thread at the HighRankings forum from a few months ago that [...] |
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Feature: PCs are gravely misunderstood by console gamers and even most of the gaming and mainstream press. If you didn't know better, you'd think PC gaming is costly, complicated, and dying a slow death. Let's dispel some of these myths right now. |
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