Microsoft knows where it doesn't want to go and that's headlong into the open-source camp. Microsoft wants to stay a for-profit software company that charges for products and services. And it has no use for open-source development mode.

With the news that Trolltech had decided to release Qt 2.2 under the GPL, the foundation for Debian's exclusion of the popular KDE was removed.

Trolltech released Qt version 2.2. Also released was Qt Designer, a Rapid Application Development tool that provides a graphical interface to the Qt Application Programming Interface.

Sun Microsystems decision not to embrace Linux with the same fervor as competitors IBM and HP has sparked concern from at least one analyst firm that believes the company is making a mistake.

One of the first companies to offer an embedded Linux solution, Lineo, recently announced the birth of a joint venture in Korea with Samsung Electronics.

The iRobot-LE is powered by a Pentium II class processor running the Apache-SSL web server on Linux. Priced about the same as a high-end notebook computer, the iRobot-LE is a fully functional mobile computer.

Loki Software, a publisher of commercial games for the Linux operating system, and Trolltech, a developer of C++ cross-platform GUI application frameworks, announced a strategic alliance to provide business and end-user programs for Linux.

This entire thing is just too absurd and we refuse to play this game.

Making Qt available under the GPL provides a way to resolve one of the free software community's long-standing problems, the problem of the ethical and legal status of KDE.

Trolltech has eliminated a legal barrier between competing graphical user interfaces that have divided Linux users.