Word: linux
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...problems required students to be familiar with Linux and Eclipse, which formed an open standards-based platform...
...Window Of Opportunity Hewlett-Packard will begin selling low-cost Linux-based PCs in Asia, making it the first major computer maker to launch large-scale marketing of PCs running the free, open-source operating system...
...Infects Harvard,” Feb. 4) You called open source software ‘uncopyrighted’ software. This is incorrect. Most open-source software is covered by the GPL or the BSD license (or similar licenses such as Apache and PHP license). If a programmer contributes to Linux she does not revoke her copyright on the code. She simply gives the user a license to use that code and to copy and modify it as she wishes. The copyright holder can still release the same code (hers) under a different license-for example, the MYSQL database is released...
McBride has emerged as public enemy number one in the eyes of advocates for open-source—or uncopyrighted—software since SCO claimed last year to own code in the open-source operating system Linux, which has gained considerable popularity in the computing world as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows...
Supporters in the Linux community have claimed responsibility for an earlier, smaller-scale attack on the SCO website, but authorities were still searching for the origin of the MyDoom virus...