Amsterdam, Netherlands - April 2nd, 2003
High-Availability.Com (HAC), a leading provider of easy and affordable high availability (HA) clustering solutions for Unix environments, today announced that it has released an aggressively-priced “all-in” RSF-1 solutions package to provide High Availability for Linux systems.
Fairfield, New Jersey and Culver City, California — April 8, 2003 - Kyocera Mita, one of the world”˜s leading document imaging companies, and Codehost, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for original equipment manufacturers within the printing and imaging markets, today announced a strategic alliance to distribute BrightQ software through dealers/resellers to customers who currently utilize a Linux or Unix environment for their printing projects. BrightQ's suite of Linux and Unix printing utilities has demonstrated perfect interoperability with Kyocera Mita's ECOSYS printers and multi-functional products (MFPs).
1993: Young incorporates ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sells Linux and Unix software accessories and books and distributes a magazine called New York UNIX
Altadena, CA; Paris, France; March 25th 2003 — MandrakeSoft, a leading
provider of Linux solutions for the enterprise and for individuals, today
announced the immediate availability of Mandrake Linux 9.1 “Bamboo” for x86
processors. This new release is one of the most advanced and powerful Linux
systems currently available, with cutting-edge features such as Apache 2,
NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power-management, “Zeroconf” network support,
WiFi support, and much more. Mandrake Linux 9.1 provides an unequaled level
of comfort for users with a simplified graphical installer, a brand-new
“MandrakeGalaxy” theme, stunning anti-aliased fonts, and of course the new
KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2 desktop environments.
This topic has been written about at least 1000 times. But hardly anyone seems to have highlighted the biggest practical difference between Open Source and Shared Source: That you can modify Open Source software to fit your device (and other software), while Shared Source only lets you modify your device (and other software) to fit the Shared Source software.
But there is something here that the Linux development community should not miss: SCO has shown the extent of its contempt for you. Without IBM as fairy godmother, says SCO, you could never have achieved what you have achieved with Linux. That is an insult of the highest order - the worldwide free software development community has been slandered in a big way. Whatever happens with this case, we should not forget what this company thinks of us.
I have been given a copy of an article, supposedly to run in the Wall Street Journal tomorrow, which reports that Caldera Systems (which now does business as the SCO group) has filed suit agaist IBM for multibillion-dollar damages over supposed disclosure of SCO's intellectual property to what SCO calls the “free software community”.
The SCO Group, the GNU/Linux developer formerly known as Caldera, yesterday filed a lawsuit that could be worth more than $1 billion against International Business Machines Corp. According to a press announcement on the SCO intellectual property division's web site, “As a result of IBM's unfair competition and the marketplace injury sustained by SCO, SCO is requesting damages in an amount to be proven at trial, but no less than $1 billion, together with additional damages through and after the time of trial.”
The LinuxInstall.org project has unleashed a “Development Release 3.0rc1”: “LinuxInstall.org now supports Dual-Boot Configuration. Can a Linux Installer automatically configure Linux for Dual-Boot configuration with Windows? Yes, it can with LinuxInstall.org!
This particular article focuses on OpenOffice.org (the office suite formerly known as OpenOffice), in particular its word processor component. Please note that this article is from a KDE-centric viewpoint. Almost all of the items mentioned here, however, apply equally well to GNOME and other desktop environments.