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Impossible to marry enterprise and community needs in oneopen source licence.

Microsoft is now officially an open source vendor.

It doesn't make sense for all software to be open sourced, developercharges.

Vendor squabbling is a recipe for confusion, says Gartner.

Open Solutions Alliance hopes to increase adoption of open source apps.

Bill would move state records to open format.

Sun adds mobile Java to the open source mix.

Shared Source licence seeks official open source label.

Closed source software seen as greater security risk.

Most important software trend in decades, says IDC.

Redmond forced to provide free, irrevokable patent pledge to non-commercial open source.

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Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

David Kidd investigates why open source software still falls into the same old traps

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