To the outsider, and even to me for some time, the

various lawsuits involving the SCO Group follow a

relatively simple story line. I'm not a lawyer, but

after many interviews with the involved parties and

lawyers, the case boils down to divergent

interpretations of the subject matter.

Linuxant inc. has announce the availability of

DriverLoader 1.6, featuring support for Intel's

PRO/Wireless 2200BG card with 54mbps 802.11g technology and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security for Centrino systems.

IBM on Wednesday sent an open letter to Sun

Microsystems urging Sun to make Java technology open

source, CNET News.com has learned.

Wind River, a major force in software embedded in

devices such as cell phones or factory robots, has

signed a deal with leading Linux seller Red Hat to

jointly develop a version of the open-source software.

The following whitepaper is the first in a series by

William von Hagen on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel,

with a special emphasis on the primary issues in

migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. Material presented is largely vendor-neutral.

As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation.

If we were to re-write Linux, taking clues from

various operating systems, what would we

make sure it did? Our next-generation operating system (NGOS) would be

completely modular in design, aimed at 64-bit hardware, and with an

interface that would change the way people compute. It would support a

large number of applications and hardware devices, accepting device

drivers written for other operating system, and run applications

written for other operating system under an emulation mode.

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, met on Thursday with Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to discuss "the ethical issues related to the use of proprietary software," according to the Free Software Foundation of India.

Open Source Development Labs, one of the main groups promoting the business use of open-source software, released its standards for using Linux in enterprise applications.

One of the main contractors for the Galileo European

satellite-navigation system has not ruled out the use of open-source software for mission-critical systems.