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  • Red Hat cancels Fedora Foundation

    Red Hat has dismantled the Fedora Foundation, an initiative conceived as an entity to provide intellectual-property protections to the open-source realm but whose mission grew impractically broad.

  • New Linux look fuels old debate

    Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fuelling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux?

  • EU lawmakers threaten open source

    The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against businesses using software that is believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property (IP). Experts warn that the law could allow SCO to sue Linux users in a criminal court.

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