Open Source and Open Access Advocates

Amy S. Quinn tipped me about a list of 80 Open Source and Open Access advocates.
Not all of the members of the list are exactly charities like the headline suggests, but still it is a useful resource.

Google Highly Open Participation Contest?

Very nice, Google announced a program to promote Open Source with secondary and high-school students.
Read more (TechCrunch)

Linux For Every Child

A new project was announced in Israel, “Linux For Every Child” or “LLI” (LLI is an abbreviation of the Hebrew name).
As part of the project, volunteers will be providing working computers installed with Linux to schools, clubs, hospitals, boarding schools and other organizations where computing services can be supplied to children.
Read more (in Hebrew).

Oracle VM

Oracle unveiled on Monday at the Oracle OpenWorld their Oracle VM, that is based on Xen.
Press Release.
Slashdot.

The Israeli 2007 Welcome to Linux Series

The Israeli open source community is proud to announce the beginning of the series of presentations for Linux beginners. The lectures will cover basic topics in Linux in order to provide Linux home-use beginners with the necessary background. This year the series will take place in four centers: the Haifa Linux Club at the […]

Novell has decided to close the Israeli branch

Novell is making some structural changes, including closing branches (Israel, Belgium, Turkey, and more).
Read more at Globes

[lack of] Support is the Key to Open Source Drawback

Insufficient support is the key drawback to using open source technology, according to “Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Disrupts the Technology Stack”  the latest survey conducted by Unisphere Research for the IOUG and sponsored by MySQL.
A total of 226 people participated in the survey. Over half (53 percent) were database administrators. More than […]

(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.

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