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	A tax on open source? Alan Shimel: Richard Stallman envisioned a tax that would help pay the developers. An entrepreneur from MIT has started the idea of a tithe on companies that use open source software to make a profit. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Intel Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem Learn how Intel's work across the industry ecosystem is making it a trusted advisor to the Open Source community Click to continue In this Issue Fedora Board likely to reconsider SQLNinja Signs Of The Apocalypse: Oracle and Apple to Collaborate on Open Source Java for Mac Do We Need Another Browser? Does RockMelt? Microsoft is the New "Open" Jason Deli chain ditches open source e-mail for the Google cloud Should FOSS projects adopt Social Networking Documentation? Android 2.3 Will Do Mobile Payments and Lots of 'Bump' Froyo Coming Soon to Dell Streak Anti-Firesheep Trick Protects Linux Users Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux Google: Third parties liable for Java infringement, not us Red Hat releases RHEL 6 Visit Open Source Subnet WHITE PAPER: VMware The Virtualization Imperative This report presents the findings of a study that Forrester Consulting conducted for VMware in November 2009 to evaluate firms' client operating system migration plans. Read Now. Fedora Board likely to reconsider SQLNinja Joe Brockmeier: It looks like the Fedora Board will reconsider blocking the SQL injection tool Ninja. The initial decision drew quite a lot of criticism, but that doesn't mean the board was wrong. Read More Signs Of The Apocalypse: Oracle and Apple to Collaborate on Open Source Java for Mac Alan Shimel: Apple and Oracle, today announced that Apple is joining the Oracle OpenJDK community. Read More Do We Need Another Browser? Does RockMelt? Alan Shimel: RockMelt is a new browser financed by Netscape co-founder Mark Andreessen built on the Chromium. Read More Microsoft is the New "Open" Scott Crenshaw: How to trade lots of little lock-ins for one Big Mother lock-in. Read More PODCAST: Novell Easy as Pie: Migrating from Solaris to Linux Tune in to Rick Ashford, technical specialist for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise, as he gives the lowdown on what you can expect from the process. He also points out that your biggest risk is if you don't migrate to Linux. Find out why now. Jason Deli chain ditches open source e-mail for the Google cloud Julie Bort: Google Apps lured won over a happy open source e-mail user with advanced collaboration features. Read More Should FOSS projects adopt Social Networking Documentation? Stephen Spector: Let the community solve your open source documentation problems. Read More Android 2.3 Will Do Mobile Payments and Lots of 'Bump' Google CEO Eric Schmidt says smartphones will soon support "bump" technology and mobile payments. These new features will be part of the new version of the Android operating system (2.3, Gingerbread), the release of which could come as soon as this week. Read More Froyo Coming Soon to Dell Streak Dell's Streak will soon be powered by Froyo! Dell announced that Froyo will begin rolling out Froyo to its half-tablet-half-smartphone Streak by the end of the month. The 5-inch smartphone-tablet crossover launched this summer, and originally shipped with Android 1.6. In September Dell offered a limited update to version 2.1, but it was not without its troubles. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent A 'hands-free' approach to optical networking With unmatched scalability and performance, Alcatel-Lucent has a future-proof, Carrier-grade WDM solution which enables the flexibility, intelligence and reduced time to revenue data centers require and offers key tools for successful deployment: training, network management, spares and support. Read now Anti-Firesheep Trick Protects Linux Users The Firesheep plug-in for Firefox has done an admirable job of illustrating the insecurity of public Wi-Fi, just as its creators intended. Now that it's out there in the wild, however, the question for users is how to protect their sensitive information. Read More Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux Jon Brodkin: Microsoft says a Windows-based supercomputer has broken the petaflop speed barrier, but the achievement is not being recognized because the same machine was faster using Linux. Read More Google: Third parties liable for Java infringement, not us Third parties, not Google, would be liable for any Java copyright violations in the Android mobile OS, according to a filing the vendor made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Read More Red Hat releases RHEL 6 Red Hat releases version 6 of its enterpise Linux distribution, featuring improvements in performance and network management Read More Visit Open Source Subnet Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More
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