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Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards says that industry will regard OOXML as a dead end, and that will force Microsoft to accept ODF. Microsoft recently decided to support ODF in Office which may lead to Microsoft embracing ODF.

A tech vendor-backed company will soon launch a Web site to help inventors file defensive publications - documents that make details of an invention public, preventing others from later making patent claims on it.

Would you be willing to use proprietary software on a Linux PC, or must software be open source for you to be willing to install it?

For most small to midsized businesses, software means Microsoft. Big Blue says it can offer businesses a lower-cost alternative to Microsoft's office productivity and collaboration software.

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.

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.

At OSCON, Mark Shuttleworth called on open source developers to make a concerted effort not just to catch Apple but to overtake the company in the quality of the desktop experience they deliver users.

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