In the open-source community, the rumor that just won't die claims that Microsoft is funding The SCO Group's legal actions against Linux. On Thursday, those allegations rose again with reports of a memo that links Microsoft with a financial backer of SCO.

Sun Microsystems Inc is open to relinquishing

stewardship of Java to a neutral third party, but is

apparently against releasing the language to open

source under GPL.

Sun Microsystems Inc is open to relinquishing

stewardship of Java to a neutral third party, but is

apparently against releasing the language to open

source under GPL.

EV1Servers.Net this week told its users that it had

their interests in mind when it signed an

intellectual-property license with The SCO Group Inc. to use Red Hat Linux. However, that hasn't stopped some of those users from threatening to leave the Web-hosting company over the deal.

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.

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.

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.