The KDE camp doesn't want a corporate-backed foundation taking charge of its desktop environment. But that isn't stopping the group from assembling a body to go head-to-head with the Gnome Foundation.

The Santa Cruz Operation is to shed 19 per cent of its workforce, 190 employees, as it gets ready to hand its Unix operations over to Caldera.

The future of Project Monterey was thrown into doubt last month when SCO announced that its server and professional services division would be sold to Linux distributor Caldera.

Nokia has launched the Media Terminal, a new product for the home that combines Internet media technologies and digital broadcasting technologies. The software platform is based on Linux operating system, Xfree86-windowing system, the Mozilla web browser and compliant protocols and standards.

We don't want to use *just* the GPL for Python, because there are many proprietary software developers in the Python community who don't want to work with the GPL.

Microsoft knows where it doesn't want to go and that's headlong into the open-source camp. Microsoft wants to stay a for-profit software company that charges for products and services. And it has no use for open-source development mode.

With the news that Trolltech had decided to release Qt 2.2 under the GPL, the foundation for Debian's exclusion of the popular KDE was removed.

Trolltech released Qt version 2.2. Also released was Qt Designer, a Rapid Application Development tool that provides a graphical interface to the Qt Application Programming Interface.

Sun Microsystems decision not to embrace Linux with the same fervor as competitors IBM and HP has sparked concern from at least one analyst firm that believes the company is making a mistake.

One of the first companies to offer an embedded Linux solution, Lineo, recently announced the birth of a joint venture in Korea with Samsung Electronics.