(Yet Another Post On) Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL

So much has been written, so I will just point you in the direction of some of the articles/posts (There are more…):
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1454
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/20/2229252&from=rss
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/hava-maker-monsoon-slapped-with-first-gpl-lawsuit/
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/22/sflc_gpl_microsoft/
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2535349507.html
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/59454.html
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjgxOTUsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092007-lawsuit-charges-open-source-license.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/first-us-gpl-lawsuit.html
http://linuxwatch.com/news/NS3973290690.html
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/09/its_gpl_lawsuit.html
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9782211-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2007/09/software-freedom-law-center-files-first.html

Yahoo! entered an agreement to acquire Zimbra for $350 million

Techcrunch posted about the breaking news of Yahoo! buying Zimbra.
Zimbra has an Open Source web-based office suite including email, calendar, contacts, voip and more.
Read more about the acquisition:
Yahoo! YODEL ANECDOTAL blog
Zimbra website
Slashdot

Infoworld Best Open Source Awards

Infoworld published their “2007 Infoworld Bossie Awards” with the Best of Enterprise Open Source Software.
Categories include: enterprise monitoring, applications, networking, platforms and middleware, security and storage.

One small step…

Yesterday I wrote a post on the Ministry of Education in Israel and their lack of support for Open Source.
Today we are updated that several members of the Open Source community in Israel contacted the person in charge of the tender requiring MS Internet Explorer support (in Hebrew), and the Ministry of Education has expressed […]

Open Source in Israeli Schools

The very popular news site ynet.co.il ran an article about Open Source penetration in Israeli schools (in Hebrew).
Since most of you do not read Hebrew I will try to summarize the main points of the article:
Even though the Israeli Ministry of Education puts much emphasis on Microsoft products (i.e. Teaching Excel as part of the […]

Open Source Links for 03-Sep-2007

Q&A: Jonathan Schwartz on Sun’s open-source business strategy - Matt Asay, CNet
Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth on Productivity and Linux - Lifehacker
HP launches RedHat Linux desktop PC - apcmag.com
Project Darkstar has gone open source! - Chris Melissinos, Sun

Another step towards mass adoption of Linux

I was very happy to read the slashdot conversation on the upcoming Ubuntu feature of failsafe mode:
“It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a […]