Open Source Weblog: September 2006 Archives

Torvalds: the passionate moderate
September 29, 2006

Red Herring has an excellent Q&A with Linus Torvalds, which neatly presents his view on the current dust up between the Free Software Foundation and the core Linux developers/maintainers on the future of the GPL.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on 11:23 AM | Comments (0)

Red Hat's shares take a slap despite revenue up 52%
September 27, 2006

Red Hat's share price took a kicking over night as its shares fell 10% despite it announcing revenue for the second quarter up 52% from the same quarter last year to just shy of $100m.

The problem was that tax and compensation charges pushed net income to $11m from $16.7m a year ago. Not to mention the fact that the company's share price seems to be extremely volatile at the moment.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on 11:20 AM | Comments (0)

SCO rewrites history, denies IP License for Linux
September 26, 2006

Summary judgment deadline day has come and gone in SCO's breach of contract and copyright case against IBM with no fewer than 10 motions for summary judgment now publicly available (there may be more).

As usual Groklaw has the heads-up but one filing not yet up on the site is worth looking at for SCO's attempt to rewrite history.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on 02:53 PM | Comments (0)

Novell Supports Red Hat
September 25, 2006

Novell has announced that it will introduce support for Red Hat's rival Enterprise Linux running in virtualized environments on its own SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on 05:33 PM | Comments (0)

Novell gets real (time)
September 21, 2006

Novell will launch a version of its SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system for real time systems in October, according to reports, building on a deal it struck with Concurrent Computer in January 2006.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on 04:58 PM | Comments (0)

VCs splash more cash on open source
September 20, 2006

Over $700m has been invested in the open source companies tracked by this blog, up from $515m the last time we took a look at it thanks to funding rounds for Vyatta, Open-Xchange, SpikeSource, and Linux Networx.

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Posted by Matthew Aslett on 01:19 PM | Comments (0)

Holiday notice
September 04, 2006

For the next two weeks I shall be mostly enjoying the efforts of these good people so in the meantime, Jason will keep you up to date with all the latest news and views.

Posted by Matthew Aslett on 05:40 PM | Comments (0)