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Here's a wonderful cautionary tale: Systran created a specially adapted version of its Systran-Unix machine translation software for the...

The announcement that Attachmate would acquire Novell for $2.2 billion has naturally provoked a flurry of comments and analyses in the free ...

One of the many arguments against allowing patents for software (alongside the principle argument that software is made up of algorithms, wh...

When a big enough star dies, it generally implodes, and forms a voracious black hole capable of swallowing anything that comes too close. W...

I'm struck by the almost unanimous chorus of indifference that has greeted the news that a court has reversed one part of an ealier rul...

The fact that GNU/Linux totally dominates the top 500 supercomputing list is hardly news, but the fact that it has managed to *increase* its...

Remember SCO? It's a once-important company that developed a death-wish by suing IBM in 2003. As Wikipedia explains... On Open Enterpris...

The source code for the grandfather of Linux, MULTICS, has finally been released : This is extraordinary news for all nerds, computer scient...

The SCO saga may stagger on awhile: SCO has gotten a $16 million bid from York Capital for its Unix business. Coupled with the $10 million ...

Well, we all knew it would happen, and, finally, it has : Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary jud...

Virtual Windows systems are familiar enough, but how about this: LINA , a virtual GNU/Linux environment? With LINA, a single executable writ...

The online world is awash with XML feeds. The great thing about XML is that you can grab it and do stuff with it very easily, because it...

Here's something I wish I knew more about: Zhang Shiliang, who is in charge of the use of open source software in Beijing's Pinggu ...

There's a piece in the Guardian about OpenStreetMap 's Isle of Wight effort . I was struck by this wonderful quotation: The weeke...

The wilful misunderstanding of Google Books by traditional publishers is truly sad to see. They continue to propagate the idea that Google...