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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook
Is it Time for Open Office?
An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0
GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait
GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed?
India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML
Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software
Open Source Speech Recognition
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive
Media Cataloging Software?
What Tax Software Do You Use?
Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review
OpenOffice 2.3 Released
Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed
Do "Illegal" Codecs Actually Scare Linux Users?
Games All Downhill Since Pong?
Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization
If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over
Is Showmypc.com an Open Source Pretender?
Is Windows Vista in Trouble?
Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released
Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent
Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors
Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software
Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer
2008 - Year of Linux Desktop?
A Preview of Opera 9.5
AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network
French Kids Get OSS on USB Sticks
GCC 4.2.1 Released
Google Pushes Open Source OCR
Has Open Source Lost Its Halo?
Measure Anything with a Camera and Software
Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?
Pirating Software? Choose Microsoft!
The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World
Thunderbird in Crisis?
10-Year Anniversary of Open Source
AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers
After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released
Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software
Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers
Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM
Google Earth Gets Star-Gazing Add On
HD Video Editing with Blender
How Fast is Your Turnaround Time?
How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa
Identifying (and Fixing) Failing IT Projects
Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support?
Konami Slot Machines Flashing Subliminal Messages?
Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now
Linspire's CNR Goes Multi-Distro
Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux
MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems
Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser
Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora
NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office
NeoOffice 2.2.1 Available For Mac
Netscape Finally Put Down
Open Letter to ISO Calls For Standardization of Process
OpenDocument Foundation Closes
OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF
PDF Is Now ISO 32000
Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling?
Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming
The Contradictory Nature of OOXML
The Really Fair Scheduler
Trolltech Adopts GPL 3 for Qt
US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma
VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative
Virgin America Uses Linux to Entertain Inflight
What 2008 May Hold In Store for FOSS
What Happens Next on the US Vote on OOXML
What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection?
Issue Tracking Ticketing Systems?
Managing Lots of IP Addresses?
Would You Install Pirated Software at Work?
Acid3 Test Released
Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online
BusinessWeek Advocates Microsoft Piracy
Enso Gives Keyboard Commands to Windows Users
Few of OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed
Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads
Google Faces Plagiarism Questions Over Chinese Software
Legal Counsel Advises Against Accepting OOXML Pledge
Long Live Closed-Source Software?
MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update
Microsoft Launches OSS Site, Submits License For Approval
Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT
OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization
OSI Asks Microsoft to Change the MS-PL
OpenOffice.org 2.3 Review
Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail
Software Missing From Vista's "Official Apps"
Teachers Give ERP Implementations Failing Grades
The Downsides of Software as Service
VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights
12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 2007
A Cynic Rips Open Source
A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons?
Adobe May Launch Office Rival
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only
Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries
Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite?
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Dies Quietly
Best OSS Systems Mgmt App You Never Heard Of
Browser Wars Declared Over?
Bruce Perens Aims For OSI Executive
Canonical Begins To Open-Source Launchpad
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 6 for Mac and Linux
Creative Backs Down on Vista Driver Debacle
DARPA Advances AI Program For Air Traffic Control
Debian Gets Win32 Installer
Eben Moglen — GPLv3 Not About MS and Novell
Ext3cow Versioning File System Released For 2.6
FSF Releases Third Draft of GPLv3
Flock Delivers On Promises Post 1.0
Format Standards Committee "Grinds To a Halt"
GPL 3 Launch Date Announced
How Microsoft Inadvertently Helps To Fund FOSS
IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite
IBM's Inexpensive Notes/Domino Push Against MS
ISO Calls For OOXML Ceasefire
Large FLOSS Study Gets the Real Facts
Lightroom Vs. Aperture
Linus on GIT and SCM
Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released
Linux Gets Completely Fair Scheduler
Linux Kernel Devs Offer Free Driver Development
Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users
Microsoft Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold
Microsoft To Try Works As Adware
Microsoft to Open Source FoxPro
Mitsubishi Breaks Up Famous Computer Science Lab
Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox
No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever
Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF
OSI To Crack Down On "Open Source" Abusers
Open Source Federal Income Tax Software
OpenOffice Online Goes Beta
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released
Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware
Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain
Preload Drastically Boosts Linux Performance
Psystar Open Computer Notes, Benchmarks and Video
Real Open Source Applications for Education?
RealPlayer 11 Is a Real Rip Contender
Researchers Aim To "Read Minds" of PC Users
Researchers Create an Automatic Backup Band for Singers
SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged
Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases
Scanner Spots Open Source Installations
Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage
Software Speeds Response To Road Accidents
SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps
Stanford's New Website Converts Your Photos to 3D
Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On
Thai Students Score a Prize For Speech Software
The Inside Story on Norway's Yes to OOXML
Tools For Understanding Code?
Trolltech GPLs Qtopia Phone Edition
UK Report Slams EULAs
Ubuntu Picks Upstart, KVM
Under User Pressure, SugarCRM Adopts GPLv3
Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend
Virtualizing Cuts Web App Performance 43%
What Microsoft Could Learn from OSS and Linux
What to Protect in Open Source Software
What's New In FreeBSD 7.0
WordLogic Patented the Predictive Interface
Yahoo Downgrades MusicMatch Jukebox
Peer Review Starts for Software Patents
1.6 Million PCs Track Popular P2P Clients
A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit
AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test
Adobe Intends To Move All of Its Applications Online
Anatomy of the Linux Kernel
Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users
Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records
Ballmer Teases Software-Plus-Services in '07
British Government Comes Out Against 'Pure' Software Patents
CBC News Interprets GPL - Poorly
CNet Promotes Essential Open-Source Software to Joe Public
Court Puts Further Limits on Software Patents
Critic of Software Patents Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro
Does ODF Have a Future?
FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure
Facebook Acquires Parakey's Web OS Platform
Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files?
Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism
Forty Years of LOGO
Goodbye Cruel Word