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darthcamaro writes “For nearly three years, Oracle has had its own version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, claiming the two versions are essentially the same thing. But are they really? As it turns out, there are a few things on which Oracle and Red Hat do not see eye-to-eye, including file systems and virtualization. The article quotes Wim Coekaerts, Oracle’s director of Linux engineering, saying, ‘A lot of people think Oracle is doing Enterprise Linux as just basically a rip off of Red Hat but that’s not what this is about. …

Posted on March 20th, 2009 under Avoid, Comment, Microsoft, Response, What, Yahoo, advice, all about linux, articles, avi, bid, blog, business, comments, community, content, died, free, free software, google, help, honest, hosting, images, install, interest, internet, learn, links, linux, market, news, purchase, rank, rated, report, sale, saving, savings, server, service, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web. Tags: advice, articles, Avoid, content, died, honest, market, Microsoft, rank, report, sale, server, tea, tool, war. Comments: None

WMGarrison writes “US Patent 7453593 claims command-line processing by a web server of SOAP requests, resulting in XML responses, from and to a remote client. The HTTP Common Gateway Interface (CGI) operates precisely as described in Claim 1. If you POST a SOAP document and return an XHTML response or a SOAP document, this infringes Claim 2, since both XHTML and SOAP are XML languages. This patent thus claims to own the processing of SOAP documents by CGI programs.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Posted on March 20th, 2009 under Avoid, Comment, Download, Microsoft, Response, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, blog, business, comments, community, content, cure, died, free, google, help, images, information, interest, life, links, linux, network, news, online, rated, rates, server, service, software, system, tea, tell, war, web. Tags: Avoid, cure, images, linux, linux guides, Microsoft, network, rates, score3, web. Comments: None

CWmike writes “GPS device maker TomTom has shot back at Microsoft with a claim of patent infringement, after the software giant raised concerns in the Linux community with a recent lawsuit against TomTom. In a suit filed earlier this week, TomTom alleges that Microsoft infringes on four patents in mapping software Microsoft Streets and Trips. TomTom is asking for triple damages for willful infringement, since it says it had notified Microsoft about its alleged infringement.

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Glyn Moody writes “There’s been a spate of celebrations of Linux’s 15th birthday recently. What they’re really marking is the 15th anniversary of version 1.0. But do version numbers matter for free software? The ‘release early, release often’ approach means there’s generally little difference between version 0.99.14z, say, and version 1.0

Posted on March 19th, 2009 under Comment, Microsoft, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, blog, business, comments, community, content, died, free, free software, google, help, honest, how to, images, install, interest, internet, leadership, learn, links, linux, mpeg, news, rated, service, software, system, tea, tell, war, web. Tags: content, died, honest, images, internet, journal, learn, Microsoft, programming, release-often, rerelease-early, tea, web, Yahoo. Comments: None