Pulse 2 – Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has bought OpenedHand, a mobile Linux development company that is based in London, England. OpenedHand will be powering low-power laptops and mobile devices through their Linux software stack built for Intel Atom processors. The developers that focus on building the Linux software stack is known as the Mobile Software [...] read more

Free Software Magazine – By rights, copyright really shouldn’t apply to binary executables, because they are purely “functional” (not “expressive”) works. The decision to extend copyright to binaries was an economically-motivated anomaly, and that choice has some counter-intuitive and detrimental side-effects. What would things in the free software world look like if the courts had decided otherwise? For one thing, the implementation of copyleft would have to be completely different. [...] read more

Scientechie – My last review of openSUSE 11.0 generated mixed comments, but one of the recurring themes was disapproval of my recommendation because SUSE is the “enemy” of Linux, simply because it struck a “deal” with Microsoft.
I am no expert in legal matters, but from what I can find, it seems that Novell legitimized Microsoft’s claim on [...] read more