UK Open Source Media Watch

… here. More technically oriented pieces can be found here and here and here and in lots of other places. The Inq’s inimitable take is here and Mozilla’s own account is here.

Oracle’s announcement of what it describes as

Enterprise-Class Support for Linux

has created a stir, on the financial blogs, in Forbes (here and here and here and here (this the only one from the hitherto ubiquitous Daniel Lyons) and … , Californian newssheets, our own ZDNet and doubtless many other outlets.

Sustaining you in the Windows wasteland
“Trolltech gets funding boost”: fuels speculation that there may be money to be made with Linux
OSDL in programmer cull
FSF works on ‘fully free’ OpenOffice

Microsoft rubbishes [BECTA] open source report”.

Meanwhile, “Schoolforge UK and the Open Source Consortium welcome Becta report into the total cost of ownership of ICT in schools”.

Firefox video campaign storms the Web
IBM gives Firefox in-house boost
Wine development stifled by software patent
Dismay after Blair’s reshuffle
“Oracle quietly works with Mozilla” - it can’t be that quiet if ZDNet knows about it…

Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, has called for researchers to be given access to the database of bugs that have afflicted open source software in order to help prove empirically whether open source is more or less secure than other software. This was reported on ZDNet.

The patent poison spreads
OpenOffice.org reveals security hole
Open source developers step up anti-patent campaign
Linux developers less keen on commercial distros
Chip makers release driver source code
Bad results? Don’t panic
City of Munich picks Linux distro (Debian)

“Brazil to get stripped down XP” - Microsoft are targeting the open-source friendly country
Linux servers praised for security
VMware pilots 64-bit virtualisation
Acrobat reader for Linux ready
Red Hat testing dual core support
Think vulnerabilities only happen in IE? Think again
Firefox versus IE: Round Two
IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite

IBM promotes opening up of IP
Battle continues over true cost of Linux
U.K.-funded initiative to push open source (from ZDNet USA)
When support becomes sabotage (op-ed)
Polite and reasoned discourse
The rise and rise of embedded Linux
Yankee group slams ‘Linux extremists’
OSI outlines licence cull plans
Big guns line up against Microsoft

Swartz swipes at GPL
Linux not just for power users
Critical open source initiative to crack public sector

Linux-based tools help out Amazon
No regrets for Newham Council
Enterprises boost Red Hat Revenue
Intel Cans its open source licence
Mozilla gives bug hunter $2,500
Google enhances search fgor Firefox users

Anti-patent campaigner hangs up his gloves

Service Firms Launch open source stack
South Korean Boost for Linux
Torvalds advocates daily kernel performance tests
EDS backtracks on ’strategically important’ Linux
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Improved Linux InfiniBand support near
‘Most important ever’ MySQL reaches beta

Improved Linux InfiniBand support near
Attack of the clones
“Online security doesn’t come cheap - it’s free” - which is a comment on…
Linux touted as the solution to online-banking problems
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
“EDS backtracks on ’strategically important’ Linux” - related to this
“Mountains and molehills don’t mix” - which is a comment on…
Linux firms rubbish […]

“Yahoo pledges full Firefox compatibility”
“Debian developers call for more releases” - ZDNet

“Defender of the Linux Faith”
“KDE offers improved accessibility”

Today’s Linux / open source stories from ZDNet :

“Upgrade to Google, world’s biggest Linux application”
“Intel globalises Linux programme”
“Newham CIO wins award”
UK councils use open source to meet e-targets
“Linux ‘not suitable for enterprise use’”
“Companies accused of violating GPL”