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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF: Fight Over Google's 'Sponsored Links' threatens Internet free speechThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release concerning Rescuecom's lawsuit over Google's "sponsored links" feature. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today to uphold an important ruling allowing anyone to purchase Google's "sponsored links" tied to trademarks, arguing that the practice is legal under trademark law and provides a vital means for online speakers to connect with audiences on the Internet. Google's "sponsored links" feature allows customers to buy advertisements attached to certain search terms."
mozillaZine Folding@Home Team Completes 20 million Points (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports on the MozillaZine forum's Folding@Home team. "Folding@Home is a project at Stanford University, based on the distributed computing model. When installed, it runs in the background, using idle CPU cycles to compute protein folding. The project aims to find cure for diseases related to mis-folding of proteins. Two years ago, mozillaZine forum members formed a team. Today, the team has completed over 20 million points, and is ranked among the top 100 folding teams."
openEMR successfully completes IHE Connectathon testing (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews reports on the testing of openEMR at the 2007 IHE Connectathon. "The Possibility Forge and Mandriva, using OHF, represent openEMR, the first open source electronic medical record system to participate, and successfully complete the interoperability standards at the IHE Connectathon. The IHE Connectathon is a health care industry collaboration event, where the IHE constructs independent testing to validate and verify vendors claims of interoperability."
Software patents in the UKThe UK Government has responded to a petition regarding software patents. "The Government remains committed to its policy that no patents should exist for inventions which make advances lying solely in the field of software. Although certain jurisdictions, such as the US, allow more liberal patenting of software-based inventions, these patents cannot be enforced in the UK." (Thanks to dave)
Commercial announcements Alfresco expands base with move to GPLAlfresco Software, Inc. has announced its plans to license its enterprise content management software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). "While the GPL has been widely adopted by Linux distributors and open source infrastructure companies, Alfresco is leading what is expected to be an increasing number of open source application companies to adopt the GPL. Alfresco previously licensed its software under the Mozilla Public License with a clause requiring attribution. The move, which further grows and strengthens Alfresco's developer and OEM community, puts the company on a collision course with proprietary content management vendors and sets off what is expected to be a trend for open source application developers."
Mandriva opens office in LagosMandriva has announced the opening of its subsidiary company Mandriva West Africa in Lagos, Nigeria. "Mandriva West Africa to start operations in February 2007 to offer the Mandriva Linux operating system and open source applications and solutions to individuals, educational institutions, public and private organizations, ISVs and OEMs all over West Africa."
Motorola launches open-source High Availability Operating EnvironmentMotorola, Inc. has announced the launch of the OpenSAF project. "Motorola, Inc. today announced it is initiating a new open source project to develop a complete high availability operating environment based on Service Availability Forum(TM) (SA Forum) standards. The objective of the new "OpenSAF" project is to accelerate broad adoption of an SA Forum compliant operating environment."
Trolltech becomes the first corporate patron of KDE (KDE.News)KDE.News announces that Trolltech has become a corporate patron of the KDE project. "Being a Patron of KDE is an ideal way to both support the KDE project and become a more active member of the KDE community. After the inaugural membership of Mark Shuttleworth, Trolltech is the first corporate Patron of KDE."
Resources Linux Foundation Releases New Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 SpecificationThe Linux Foundation has announced the availability of its Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 Specification. "In existence since 2002 and now in its fourth version, the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Specification consists of over 250 individual requirements that cover seven categories of Performance, Hardware, Standards, Serviceability, Availability, Security and Clustering. The primary changes to the new CGL 4.0 Specification are alignment with the SCOPE Alliance's Carrier Grade Profile and tighter requirements around compliance."
Contests and Awards Fellowship Raffle 2007 at FOSDEMThe Free Software Foundation Europe will hold a benefit raffle for itself at the FOSDEM meeting in Brussels, Belgium on April 1, 2007. "Maffulli continues: "Companies support FSFE to show that they appreciate our work, and in turn we like to show that we appreciate our fellows. This year we're delighted to do that through sharing gadgets that were provided by companies who support Free Software: Welcome to the 2007 Fellowship Raffle!""
Education and Certification LPI offers discounted certification exams at CeBIT 2007The Linux Professional Institute has announced the offering of discounted certification exams and a competitive Linux computer game at the CeBIT 2007 conference in Hannover, Germany on March 15-21, 2007.
Upcoming Events First ADempiere conference in Berlin, Germany (SourceForge)The first ADempiere developers conference has been announced. "Adempiere is an ERP Bazaar for Open Source Developers that contribute improvements of Compiere, CRM, Shopfloor, POS, Helpdesk, Financials Accounting, Supply Chain, Knowledge and Business apps in an open and unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community. An invitation for all interested parties to attend The first ADempiere conference in Berlin, Germany on May 29 to 31 has been issued by the ADempiere project. Although focus of the conference will be on the development of the ERP solution, discussions will be of interest for all parties interested in ADempiere implementation."
O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing registrationRegistration is open for the 2007 O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. The event will take place on June 18-20, 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. "As a media company closely connected with the leading innovators in technology, O'Reilly is in a unique position to recognize the new trends in publishing and identify emerging business models in publishing products and services. In this regard, the O'Reilly team is launching the TOC Conference to raise the level of technology knowledge among book publishers and to spark conversation and creativity that will help to shape the future of publishing."
Events: March 8, 2007 to May 7, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs TimeSys starts an embedded Linux podcastTimeSys has sent out a press release proclaiming the existence of a new podcast series on embedded Linux. "LinuxLink Radio is hosted by Gene Sally and Maciej Halasz from TimeSys, who have over 15 years of combined experience in embedded Linux. New episodes of LinuxLink Radio will be available every two weeks, with each being around 30 minutes in length. Topics of conversation during the podcast will cover a wide range of embedded Linux topics, with content available for experienced developers, as well as those new to embedded Linux." Three episodes are available now.
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