Parallels Desktop Update Adds Support for Chrome OSPC WorldPreviously, Parallels Desktop worked with Google's open source version of Chrome OS, dubbed Chromium OS, but with a few tweaks. ...and more »
Apple’s suit against HTC could end one of two ways.
Either Apple becomes the next SCO, which ran itself aground claiming rights to Linux, or it becomes the next Microsoft, which is prospering while claiming to own Linux.
The answer depends on how hard Apple presses its case.
CNETEx-Novell CTO takes Web leadership postCNETHe joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. ...
The low-hanging fruit in the renewable energy business still lies with efficiency. Cutting your energy use without crimping your lifestyle gives you a faster payback than turning into Ed Begley Jr.
Google open source guru says Android code will be in Linux kernel in timeZDNet (blog)Google's Android code will assume its rightful place in the Linux kernel — in good time, the company's top open source guru says. ...and more »
Google’s Android code will assume its rightful place in the Linux kernel — in good time, the company’s top open source guru says.
The Android code was stripped out of the last kernel release, version 2.6.33, after Google reportedly failed to provide necessary changes and subsystem code required by kernel.org.
Google pumps out Chrome build which knows where you areRegisterThe latest update comes a few days after Google pushed out a Windows-only beta of its open source Chrome browser to its users. Google Chrome wonk Karen ...and more »
Dries Buytaert of Drupal and Acquia is warning that Software as a Service is becoming a threat to open source and that clouds could create the same vendor lock-in customers sought to avoid with open source.
(This is Dries at last year’s Drupalcon in Paris, in a close-up of a photo by Pedro Lozano. From buytaert.net.)
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Matt Asay hits the nail on the head. In full “knock this board off my shoulder mode,” the Ubuntu COO dares Microsoft to sue Canonical, or Google, or someone else over its Linux claims who might fight back.
In response to my piece yesterday, my Italian friend Roberto Galoppini referenced a piece he did last August called the Open Source Innovation Backbone.
