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TECTONIC NEWS - 27 May, 2007 Tracking the shifts in technology www.tectonic.co.za ------------ SUN PLEDGES PATENTS TO DEFEND LINUX http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1540&s=news Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz says he is ready to use the company's extensive patent portfolio to help defend Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux against Microsoft's patent offensive. SHUTTLEWORTH SAYS MICROSOFT NOT THE REAL THREAT http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1535&s=news Mark Shuttleworth yesterday posted a blog entitled 'Microsoft is not the real threat'. In it he stated that he believed that Microsoft and the Linux community, as software producers, would ultimately find themselves on the same side, fighting against the current software patent system and those who seek to abuse it. PCLINUXOS 2007 FINAL RELEASED http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1536&s=news This week the PCLinuxOS community have proudly brought out the final release of PCLinuxOS 2007 which comes with all the latest versions of several popular open source programs. SUPERCOMPUTING FOR SA RESEARCHERS http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1542&s=news Do you need the processing power of several thousand desktops to carry out your research? If so, look no further. The Centre for High Performance Computing has been established to allow researchers access to supercomputer level processing. 'SUE ME FIRST!' OSS USERS TELL MICROSOFT http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1538&s=news Taking a new approach to Microsoft's patent threats, a wiki has been set up to allow users of free and open source software to invite Microsoft to sue them first. A local company, CompUnite has joined, mustering support to take Microsoft to court. NOVELL AND EFF TACKLE PATENT REFORM http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1541&s=news Novell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have joined forces to take on patent reform by lobbying governments and international organisations. The partnership will also add impetus to the EFF's Patent Busting project, which attacks patents that overly restrict software developers and Internet users. TELKOM CUTS INTERNATIONAL BANDWIDTH COSTS http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1537&s=news Fixed-line operator Telkom has cut its retail price of international bandwidth to all destinations by 30 percent retrospectively from May 1. FIRST OPENOFFICE.ORG VIRUS? http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1539&s=news Virus company Sophos says it has possession of the first-ever OpenOffice.org virus able to run on Microsoft, MacOS X and Linux. The chance of it being spread, though, is fairly remote. SPEED UP SURFING WITH SPLIT BROWSER http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1534&s=news Split Browser is a Firefox extension that lets you take the versatility of tabbed browsing even further than usual. STILL MANY CHALLENGES FOR COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1530&s=news Thirty percent of South Africa's schools use computers as teaching aids but only two percent have access to the Internet. FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN JOOMLA! DAY http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1531&s=news All users and developers of Joomla!, the open source content management system, will have an opportunity to meet in Cape Town on June 16. TEXT FREEDOM WITH RED HAT'S LIBERATION FONTS http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1532&s=news Linux company Red Hat has released the Liberation font set which can be used to replace the Microsoft core truetype fonts installed on most PCs. MYGATE EASES SHOPPING CART INTEGRATION http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1533&s=news South African payment gateway company, MyGate, have released snippets of code that make for easier integration between the shopping cart and the payment gateway. ---------------------------------------- Contact Tectonic: Editor Alastair Otter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 083-267-7657 -- Tectonic's newsletter is sent out weekly to subscribers and delivers the best of open source news from around the continent direct to their desktop. To subscribe visit http://phplist.tectonic.co.za/lists/?p=subscribe or send your email address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To advertise in Tectonic's weekly newsletter email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone 083-267-7657. For more information on the newsletter visit http://www.tectonic.co.za/default.php?action=m_d Visit http://www.tectonic.co.za for the latest news and most up to date resources on open source software on the continent of Africa. All material copyright Free Speech Publishing. You are free to distribute copies of this newsletter on the condition that credit is given to www.tectonic.co.za. For permission to re-print articles that appear in this newsletter or on the www.tectonic.co.za website email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
