Microsoft has posted the prepared text for today's talk on “The Commercial Software Model” at the New York University Stern School of Business. The talk was presented by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice President. Here are a few selected excerpts . . . (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. has introduced the fourth generation of its popular DiskOnChip flash disks — the DiskOnChip “Millennium Plus”. Billed as “the world's first 32MB monolithic flash disk”, the device has several enhancements that are specifically targeted to embedded and Internet appliance (IA) system applications, including new data protection and… (more…)

In response to statements delivered by Craig Mundie, Senior VP of Microsoft, to the Stern School of Business students at New York University, Lineo has issued the following statement . . . (more…)

ZDNet's Ben Charny reports that Microsoft today stepped up its long-running battle against the open source software movement. The latest attack came in the form of a white paper written by one of the company's chief strategists, which compares the open source movement to business practices that helped sink hundreds of dot-coms. Charney writes . . . (more…)

In this essay, Bruce Perens, senior advisor for Hewlett-Packard and the primary author of the Open Source Definition, offers a perspective on software patents, the fundamental problems with them, and the hazard that they present to Free Software development. Also included, is a discussion on the upcoming summit meeting Perens has called on Free Software and The Law. (more…)

Andrew Josey, Director of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum, reports on the most recent session of the Forum . . . (more…)

ZDNet UK's Will Knight writes . . .

Supporters of the open source movement are lining up to combat a campaign that Microsoft is expected to launch today rubbishing the idea of giving away and sharing computer code.

Senior vice president of Microsoft, Craig Mundie, is expected to launch the anti-open source campaign in a speech to be given… (more…)

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• An Intelligent Multiport Serial Controller for the Semiconductor Industry, by Paul Robertson, Bob Bourne — Robertson and Bourne describe a low budget, long-life… (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — RTLinux now runs on symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) PowerPCs. Finite State Machine Labs has announced that RTLinux is now available for several multiprocessor PowerPC systems, including dual G4 PowerMacs and the IBM RS/6000 (dual and quad). RTLinux SMP for the SynergyMicro line of multiprocessor PowerPC embedded boards will be available shortly. The worst case… (more…)

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Anywhere data needs to be stored and organized, a database is needed. Sid shows what's available. (more…)

To keep up with increasing demands for wireless phone coverage, Transcept, Inc. created a system on Linux that also helps keep the cost of coverage down. (more…)

Qt/Embedded extends the ease and speed of Qt to embedded application development. (more…)

Open source causes tactic changes in Redmond.

On March 5, 2001 CNET ran an “other hand” story about embedded Linux. The headline says “Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source”. The subhead explains, “Maxtor has switched from the open-source FreeBSD version of UNIX to a special-purpose version of Windows 2000 for a new storage system it's introducing… (more…)

Version 1.1 Operating Environment and Development Toolkit, SBC-MediaGX Development Kit, Graphics Master. (more…)