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Less than one week after Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz pledged to open source its Solaris operating system, The SCO Group Inc. has stated that license restrictions prevent Sun from contributing its work to the GPL (General Public License).

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Linspire has released a desktop linux comparison kit which includes Linspire, Fedora Core 2, and Mandrakelinux 10

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The SCO Group filed a memorandum Friday in its lawsuit against IBM that indicates it needs more Unix code from IBM to detail its claims that Big Blue violated a contract between the two companies.

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After months of hinting about its intentions, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to release source code from its Solaris operating system under an open source licence.

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The Amsterdam District Court denies Microsoft's request for an injunction to keep Lindows from selling its products in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, saying that Lindows is not breaking the terms of an earlier settlement.

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Sun Microsystems plans to release on Tuesday the second version of its Java Desktop System, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers, augmenting the software with new management and programming tools.

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