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Google faces $5m fine in Linux open-source lawsuit loss

...in a suit that alleged some of its use of open-source Linux code amounted to patent infringement, something that could have big implications for... Read more

26 April, 2011 by Caroline McCarthy

Linux 3.3 brings Android code back into the fold

...Linux 3.3 is the merging of Android code into the mainline Linux code. This will make it easier for developers and manufacturers to make... Read more

20 March, 2012

Open Kernel Labs bets big on mobile security

...solution, the microvisor addresses the [security] issue by replacing all the complex Linux code with a much smaller — less than 10,000 lines of code... Read more

15 February, 2011 by Jack Clark
Ten myths that plague Linux

Ten myths that plague Linux

...on Linux. 4. Open source means the code isn't secureBecause the Linux code can be viewed by the public, developers across the globe can... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Jack Wallen

SCO exhibits contentious code

...same, it's problematic." Sontag then showed, in a series of slides, Linux code that he claimed has been literally copied from Unix. He said... Read more

19 August, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

SCO fights back against 'don't pay' advice

Open Source Industry Australia's recommendation that firms don't buy SCO licences is 'free advice that's worth the price', says the embattled Unix vendor Read more

28 May, 2004 by Iain Ferguson

SCO takes on US government supercomputers

SCO's legal battle over Linux has been extended to two federal agencies that use open-source-based supercomputers Read more

22 March, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Intel software fine-tunes Linux code

The chipmaker may be dependent on Microsoft for much of its business, but it has been boosting the fortunes of the Linux operating system as well Read more

16 January, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Linux code is gloriously defect-free

Same can't be said of its OS rivals... Read more

20 February, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM acts to throw out SCO's Linux claims

...Randall Davis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who analysed lines of Linux code SCO has identified as infringing its Unix rights. Davis "concluded that... Read more

17 August, 2004 by David Becker

Google to unveil 'Android' mobile-phone software

...is expected to announce a phone operating system based on open-source Linux code, plus an alliance with wireless service providers and handset vendors Read more

5 November, 2007 by Tom Krazit

IBM wins tactical victory in SCO fight

SCO must show the Linux code to which it is claiming rights and point out where IBM... Read more

8 December, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Why Microsoft might help Linux

...be about to start developing a version of Visual Basic that generates Linux code Read more

13 October, 2000 by Guy Kewney

Microsoft adopts GPL for Hyper-V Linux components

...which commonly adopt virtualisation. And you can't go creating kernel-level Linux code that doesn't use the GPL (at least I don't... Read more

20 July, 2009

Linux standards tool adds app testing

...backwards compatible than the OpenSSL library previously used. The sample implementation of Linux code in the release is now based on rPath Conary technology instead... Read more

21 October, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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