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ZDNet UK reports Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation made a joint announcement Thursday that they will indeed build XO Laptops featuring the Windows XP operating system. Rumors about XP-based XOs began circulating some time ago, and they resurfaced last month as OLPC representatives indicated the project might abandon Linux.
The first XOs with […]

Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange announced it is now running mission-critical systems on Red Hat Linux.
InformationWeek reports:
NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007. … “Red Hat is like water; it’s pervasive within our architecture. … Without it, most of our computers wouldn’t […]

When the Free Software Foundation released the Affero General Public License v3 last November, it was heralded as the answer to the GPL’s ASP loophole. Turns out it isn’t the only answer, but it’s the answer that’s receiving the most support in the development community — or at least the most press coverage at the […]

Monday, I mentioned Google had removed the CoreAVC-for-Linux open source project from its Google Code pages. The company did so in response to a take down notice issued under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. CoreCodec asserted that the Google project linked to code owned by CoreCodec.
Tuesday, News.com’s Stephen Shankland reported the project is back on Google […]

“Open source is more secure.” How many times have we said or heard that? Too many to count, really. But PCWorld.com’s Neil McAllister points something out in an article published in The Washington Post:
[O]pen source’s supposed security advantage assumes three things: 1.) Someone is actually looking at the code; 2.) Security vulnerabilities are getting reported and […]