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	GNOME's executive director leaves for Mozilla Joe Brockmeier: Stormy Peters is stepping down as GNOME's executive director and heading to Mozilla to work on developer engagement. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Intel Empowering Rapid Innovation with Open Source Intel's Open Source involvement is enabling end-customers to achieve the maximum benefits from Intel architecture. Click to continue In this Issue GPL Conflicts with Apple's iTunes, Don't Ask, Don't Tell The Next Star Wars Could Be Shot Using Open Source Software and Hardware Oracle copying SCO playbook for Google fight Open Source Projects Have To Protect Their Brand More on the Nagios Story New Company FuseSource Hopes To Follow Red Hat Model With Apache Apps Open Source & Trademarks: Oil and Water The Widening Value Gap Between Open Source and Commercial Software Paid app, cloud service secure consumer Android phones Android users split between Froyo, Éclair Father of Firesheep fires away after wild week in WiFi security Droid, Wii patent complaints investigated London Stock Exchange delays Linux launch after live test Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Ten Steps to Increasing Data Center Efficiency You can't manage what you don't monitor. That's why infrastructure monitoring is essential to data center optimization. Emerson Network Power outlines what you should be monitoring, how to monitor it and the results you can expect. Take the proactive approach to infrastructure monitoring. Read now GPL Conflicts with Apple's iTunes, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Alan Shimel: One of the foundational principles of the GPL is the ability to re-distribute. This puts it squarely in conflict with the terms of Apple's App Store. Read More The Next Star Wars Could Be Shot Using Open Source Software and Hardware Alan Shimel: If George Lucas were to film Star Wars today he might just be using both open source software and hardware to do so. Read More Oracle copying SCO playbook for Google fight Joe Brockmeier: Oracle has amended its complaint against Google to include copyright claims, but those copying claims aren't as solid as they sound. Read More Open Source Projects Have To Protect Their Brand Alan Shimel: Nagios offers a great example of why open source needs to protect its brand Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Turning techs into fast problem solvers How self interpreting tools will turn network techs into fast problem solvers, not just problem finders. Read now More on the Nagios Story Alan Shimel: The other day I wrote about some drama playing out in the open source Nagios community. As a result of that article, I have been contacted by parties on both side. Read More New Company FuseSource Hopes To Follow Red Hat Model With Apache Apps Alan Shimel: Progress software spin-off offers services and support around packaged open source apps. Read More Open Source & Trademarks: Oil and Water Stephen Spector: Try writing an open source trademark policy. Read More The Widening Value Gap Between Open Source and Commercial Software Eric Gries: In a recent Network World  article, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst slammed commercial software for being too expensive, failing to address user needs, shoveling all the risk associated onto CIOs. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM CMO's Must Connect the Dots of the Online Brand Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels - Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other smart touches - has often occurred in a piecemeal way. Read More Paid app, cloud service secure consumer Android phones John Cox: A new paid security app from Lookout Mobile Security works with the vendor's cloud-based services to detect and block smartphone malware on Android phones, and to backup more types of user data. Read More Android users split between Froyo, Éclair Although Android isn't a Baskin Robbins franchise, its customers do seem to be divided over whether to get a Froyo or an Éclair. Read More Father of Firesheep fires away after wild week in WiFi security Firesheep, the Mozilla Firefox add-on released about a week ago that lets you spot users on open networks visiting unsecured websites, has given creator Eric Butler more than his 15 minutes of fame. Read More Droid, Wii patent complaints investigated The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched investigations related to two recent patent-infringement complaints brought to the agency, one filed by Microsoft against Motorola for its Android-based smartphones and one focused on Nintendo's Wii gaming system. Read More London Stock Exchange delays Linux launch after live test The London Stock Exchange has postponed the launch of its Linux-based IT system for cash markets, after a third live test was completed with customers over the weekend. Read More Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news The Cisco Subnet community features industry-expert bloggers, giveaways and all the top news of interest to network professionals. Check out the Cisco Subnet home page. Follow us on Twitter @ciscosubnet Read More
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