QLogic Announces HBA Virtualization Solution for SUSE Linux Environs
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| QLogic Corp., a provider of storage networking solutions, has
| announced a host bus adapter (HBA) virtualization solution for
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environments from Novell.
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http://www.itnewsonline.com/showstory.php?storyid=9313&scatid=3&contid=3
GPL 3.0 - Why it matters for your business Part 1
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| Businesses are adopting open source software in growing numbers,
| making it a popular alternative to the traditional commercial closed
| model. However, the General Purpose License version 3.0, which is
| set to regulate the majority of open source applications out there,
| will send shockwaves across the open source sector if left as it is.
| Mark Tolliver, CEO of Palamida, an IP management and compliance
| technology provider, has been closely following the draft and has
| agreed to answer 5 questions on GPL 3.0 and open source in general.
| These will be published as five separate blog posts, starting today...
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=320
Microvell has been playing some tricks with the press, trying to portray the
GPLv3 negatively in order to defend itself.
Related:
Open sourcerers do battle for GPLv3
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| Mark Taylor, a former head of the Open Source Consortium in the UK,
| thinks the whole thing is being blown out of all proportion.
|
| He told us: "The only people worrying about the GPL draft are people
| like ACT. Everyone else is really pleased with the draft. The original
| GPL aimed to prevent deals like the one between Novell and Microsoft.
| They just found a loophole. This draft closes it."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/10/open_gpl3/
Clearing up anti-GPL3 FUD
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| Some of the bad publicity about GPL3 is deliberate. A particularly
| bad article by Dan Lyons of Forbes magazine painted an offensive
| picture of GPL3 and Richard Stallman, even accusing Stallman of
| having sex with flowers (!!!) after Lyons failed to comprehend
| a scientific joke.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/22/16651/
Perens Lashes Out at Claims GPL 3 Brings Legal Risks
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| "Let's make it clear that [ACT] is Microsoft's lobbying front and
| that they are going to paint as negative a picture as they can,"
| Perens told eWEEK in an interview.
|
| "Obviously, GPL software is displacing Microsoft enough to have
| them concerned, and it's doing it at customers who are important
| to them. A lawyer's job is to scare the other side if they can--because
| they know it's cheaper than winning a case in court," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2112267,00.asp
ACT ['Microsoft pressure group?'] Warns of Legal Risk with Latest GPL Draft
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| But ACT, a Washington-based technology lobby group whose membership
| includes large companies like eBay, Oracle, Orbitz and VeriSign, and
| which was founded in 1998 in response to the Microsoft antitrust case,
| is largely dismissed by those in the open-source community as nothing
| more than a lobby group for the interests of Microsoft and those
| other large corporations.
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_Competitive_Tecnology
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| "ACT has been accused of being an industry front for Microsoft,
| promoting a Microsoft-friendly agenda in relation to property rights
| and anti-trust legislation."
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_Competitive_Technology
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| Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired
| sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums,
| posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as
| the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s,
| Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT),
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging
| Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for
| Chairman Bill.
|
| These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17
| state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their
| own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters
| being written by dead people.
|
| And the astroturf taint continues today.
|
| Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was reported
| to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group, although
| the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/
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