Microsoft claims Red Hat are obliged to pay them money from
unspecified "intellectual property":
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200717/microsoft-sharpens-aims-patent
Google grabs Jaiku instead of Twitter:
http://mashable.com/2007/10/09/jaiku-google/
The Linux 2.6.23 kernel is released, sporting a new virtual server,
scheduler, ext4, and a userspace driver framework:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/9/241
The BBC covers why Russian schools are moving en masse to Linux by
2009. In short, they want to avoid lock-ins:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7034828.stm
A handy summary of the new features in OpenOffice 2.3 - the new chart
tool is particularly welcome:
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1275483,00.html
KOffice sets itself up as the competition for OpenOffice:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1596080362
And finally. The new commander of the International Space Station
is taking a whip - to help her keep the crew in line:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7036805.st
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.