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FFII: EU tells open source to start paying MS patent tax

Here's a press release from FFII on the recent agreement between the European Union and Microsoft. "Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for Competition and Microsoft agreed that the royalties payable for the interoperability information will be 10,000 Euros, and that Microsoft can use its EPO software patents to charge 0.4 percent of all the sales of its competitors. The FFII says that these conditions effectively exclude open source competitors and add costs for all who wish to communicate with Microsoft products."

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ACCESS Connect Ecosystem Partner Program announces new members

ACCESS CO., LTD. has announced seven new partners to the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem partner program. "ACCESS CO., LTD., a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, today reinforced its commitment to strengthening cooperation among mobile industry players with the addition of seven new partners to its ACCESS(TM) Connect Ecosystem (ACE) partner program. The ACE partner program is designed to create an ecosystem of world-class partners that will unleash the potential of the digital life generation by driving development and adoption of new mobile converged technologies and solutions. In the short eight months since its creation, the program has rapidly grown to include 73 members."

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Collaborative Software partners with CollabNet

Collaborative Software Initiative has announced a partnership with CollabNet. "Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI), which introduces a market-changing process that applies open source methodologies to business communities facing common IT challenges, today announced it is partnering with CollabNet, the leading provider of collaborative software development solutions for distributed organizations. CSI will use CollabNet's development platform to facilitate collaboration among its customers to share the cost of meeting the same compliance, regulatory and public service requirements."

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Everex and Koolu announce partnership

Everex has announced a partnership with Koolu. "Everex, a world leader in the design and production of personal computers and Koolu, an organization renowned for their thin client devices and key members of the FOSS community, today announced a business alliance to further develop and promote open source, eco-friendly computing products for the mass market. "Everex is thrilled to be working with a high caliber company like Koolu," states John Lin, general manager at Everex. "With their expertise in software and service and our prowess in delivering mainstream computing products, we feel confident in furthering our many shared initiatives.""

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Message Partners announces Email archival solutions

Message Partners has announced a new Email archival solution for Linux servers. "Our email archive solution is suitable for compliance and data mining applications and offers extremely fast search and retrieval of email databases with many millions of records. Our solution integrates a number of leading open source technology components such as MySQL, Sphinx and others, but MPP is the heart of our solution. Our total email compliance solution offers email archival, content filtering, message stamping, surveillance, attachment controls and more. Our solution is not only compatible with Postfix, Sendmail and QMail, but can also archive MS Exchange and other Window's based systems."

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Turbolinux does the Microsoft deal

Microsoft has announced that Turbolinux is the latest to sign a "collaboration" deal which includes, of course, "intellectual property assurance." "Delivering value requires a vision for how to design mixed-source solutions that tackle clear customer priorities and a framework for sharing intellectual property. When strong Microsoft customers are evaluating Linux, we want them to see Turbolinux as the distribution that works best with their existing Microsoft investments."

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N810 device program opens

Nokia has announced a program to get its new N810 tablet into the hands of people who can make it better for a reduced price. "The call is addressed not only to open source programmers, but also to designers, documentation writers, community supporters, maemo evangelists, bloggers..." Up to 500 devices will be made available (for €99) under this program.

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PIKA extends appliance offering to Linux community

Pika Technologies Inc. has announced PIKA Warp for Linux. "PIKA Technologies Inc., a developer of media-processing hardware and software, today announced the release of its Appliance for Linux, the second member of PIKA Warp, its new Appliance family. It provides Linux computer telephony (CT) application developers with a smaller-sized and lower-cost alternative to traditional off-the-shelf computers and plug-in board network connectivity."

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RedCannon Security adds secure OpenOffice access

RedCannon Security has announced KeyPoint Alchemy with support for OpenOffice.org. "RedCannon Security, a trusted provider of centrally managed, secure mobile-access solutions for the enterprise, today announced direct support for OpenOffice applications through KeyPoint enabled USB flash drives. The combined solution empowers mobile workers by allowing OpenOffice applications to be pushed to any USB stick, while ensuring through its KeyPoint solutions that only "trusted" or "locked-down" versions of OpenOffice applications are used."

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Schwartz: ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk?

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz reveals Sun's plans in the Network Appliance patent suit. "In addition to seeking the removal of their products from the marketplace, we will be going after sizable monetary damages. And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform (in specific, The Software Freedom Law Center and the Peer to Patent initiative), and to the legal defense of free software innovators. We will continue to fund the aggressive reexamination of spurious patents used against the community (which we've been doing behind the scenes on behalf of several open source innovators). Whatever's left over will fuel a venture fund fostering innovation in the free software community."

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Announcing the LAPP Virtual Appliance

Virtual Appliance has announced a easy to install system with PostgreSQL, phpPgAdmin, Apache and Zeroconf. "This virtual appliance the easiest and fastest way to get PostgreSQL running. In addition to our usual Virtual Appliance features, this server includes... Our LAPP Virtual Appliance is a complete LAPP solution, is based on Ubuntu and is only 130MB to download for a full Ubuntu 7.04 Server Edition installation."

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GIS for Web Developers--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book GIS for Web Developers by Scott Davis.

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iPod: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has published the book iPod: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer with David Pogue.

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Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt - new from Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall has published the book Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming by Mark Summerfield.

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sendmail, 4th Edition--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has published the book sendmail, 4th Edition by Bryan Costales, George Jansen, Claus Aßmann, and Gregory Shapiro.

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Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has published the book Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by Jason Brittain and Ian F. Darwin.

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The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide--New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide by David J. Perdue.

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Brian Behlendorf to launch Alfresco Community Event

Alfresco Software, Inc. has announced the keynote speaker for the Alfresco North American Community Conference. "Alfresco Software, Inc., the first and leading provider of open source enterprise content management solutions, today announced that open source guru Brian Behlendorf will be keynote speaker at the inaugural Alfresco North American Community Conference in New York, on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. His presentation, "The Threat of Microsoft SharePoint to Open Source," will take place at 10 a.m. ET."

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Events: November 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 28 November 2	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
October 29 November 1	Fall VON Conference and Expo	Boston, MA, USA
October 31 November 1	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	Utrecht, Netherlands
November 1 November 2	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
November 2	5th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode	Alexandria, VA, USA
November 2 November 3	Embedded Linux Conference, Europe	Linz, Austria
November 2 November 4	Real-Time Linux Workshop	Linz, Austria
November 3	Linux-Info-Tag Dresden	Dresden, Germany
November 5 November 9	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, USA
November 7	NLUUG 25th anniversary conference	Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 7	Alfresco North American Community Conference 2007	New York, NY, USA
November 8 November 9	Blog World Expo	Las Vegas, NV, USA
November 10 November 11	Linuxtage	Essen, NRW, Germany
November 11 November 17	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Dallas, TX, USA
November 12 November 16	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, USA
November 12 November 15	OWASP & WASC AppSec 2007 Conference	San Jose, USA
November 12 November 16	ApacheCon US 2007	Atlanta, GA, USA
November 13 November 14	IV Latin American Free Software Conference	Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
November 15 November 18	Piksel07	Bergen, Norway
November 15	Alfresco European Community Conference	Paris, France
November 16 November 18	aKademy-es 2007	Zaragoza, Spain
November 20 November 23	DeepSec ISDC 2007	Vienna, Austria
November 22 November 23	Conferencia Rails Hispana	Madrid, Spain
November 24	LinuxDay in Vorarlberg (Deutschland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein und Österreich)	Dornbirn, Austria
November 26 November 29	Open Source Developers' Conference	Brisbane, Australia
November 28 November 30	Mono Summit 2007	Madrid, Spain
November 29 November 30	PacSec 2007	Tokyo, Japan
December 1	Django Worldwide Sprint	Online, World
December 1	London Perl Workshop 2007	London, UK
December 4 December 8	FOSS.IN 2007	Bangalore, India
December 7 December 8	Free Software Conference Scandinavia	Gotherburg, Sweden
December 7 December 8	PGCon Brazil	Sao Paulo, Brazil
December 10	Paris on Rails (2nd Edition)	Paris, France
December 11 December 12	3rd DoD Open Conference: Deployment of Open Technologies and Architectures within Military Systems	Vienna, VA, USA
December 15 December 22	Unix Meeting 2007	IRC, Worldwide
December 27 December 30	24th Chaos Communication Congress	Berlin, Germany

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The debut of Tim Blechmann's re-reading album

Tim Blechmann has released a downloadable audio work entitled re-reading under the Free Software Series label. "Debut album from the PD master Tim Blechmann (now living in Vienna). Many programmers try to show off the possibilities of their programs, instead Tim achieves the most focus and rigorous contemporary electronic music that I heard since Dion Workman."

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