Linux

AP - Microsoft Corp., expanding on an alliance with Novell Inc., has agreed to buy as much as 0 million more for subscription certificates for Novell's Linux products, Novell said Wednesday.

InfoWorld - Microsoft on Wednesday is expanding its agreement to supply Linux support certificates from Novell, which originally was part of a controversial arrangement set in late 2006.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to pay software maker Novell Inc up to 0 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software.

NewsFactor - A new beta software development kit is out for Android, the open-source mobile operating system backed by Google. Version 0.9 of the SDK was announced Monday on the Android Developers Blog.

InfoWorld - Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation, the foundation said Monday.

Reuters - A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that the holder of a copyright to a computer programming code made available for free public download can enforce an "open-source" copyright license to control future use of the work.

NewsFactor - Commercial software developers, listen up: If you think open source is a free toolkit from which you can borrow at will, look a good look at Wednesday's legal ruling. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ...

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PC Magazine - The open source community – and tech-savvy model railroad enthusiasts – were handed a victory Wednesday when an appeals court ruled that people who use open source content can be found guilty of copyright infringement if they ...

InfoWorld - A beta release of the open source NetBeans 6.5 IDE is being offered by Sun Microsystems on Wednesday.