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Commercial software developers, listen up: If you think open source is a free toolkit from which you can borrow at will, take a good look at Wednesday's legal ruling. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in New York City, where many intellectua

The ISO and IEC have rejected appeals from four countries and given final approval to publish the Office Open XML specification as an international standard.

For the first time, IBM and leading Linux distributors will join forces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009

InfoWorld's annual BOSSIES recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer covering 60 products in eight categories: business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage.

The LiMo Foundation plans to announce new members on Monday, including one that is sharing code for developing mobile Web applications, in what the group says is an indication that its Linux mobile-phone platform is maturing.

Linux digs deeper into data centers at LinuxWorld, which will also include demonstrations, products and training during the four-day show in San Francisco.

Blizzard is asking a judge to prevent a user from releasing code for the Glider Bot as open source.

IF YOU were anxiously awaiting "The World's first smartphone based on Access Linux Platform (ALP)" then wait no more, and the Samsung i800 is history.

Microsoft’s pledges to become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, contribute to the PHP community’s ADOdb project , and plans to support Ruby through the IronRuby distribution and RubySpec project.

The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects licensed under Mozilla Public license although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay.