| Mitch Kapor to phase out involvement in OSAF January 10, 2008 The Open Source Applications Foundation has announced a major funding and personnel shakeup, including that Lotus Development founder Mitchell Kapor will begin to phase out his involvement and investment in the nonprofit organization, which he founded in 2001. Yahoo tests support for OpenID January 9, 2008 Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites. Open source security bugs uncovered January 9, 2008 A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bug-fixing scheme has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects. OLPC would welcome Intel back January 9, 2008 The One Laptop Per Child Project would welcome Intel back if the chip maker returned to the group, the head of OLPC said Tuesday. OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS for laptops January 9, 2008 The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) and Microsoft are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of OLPC said in an interview Tuesday. UK looks to relax restrictive copyright laws January 8, 2008 The U.K. is looking to change copyright laws that make it illegal to copy music for personal use and for libraries to archive material under copyright. | 
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