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…)

SiliconValey.com's Dan Gilmore asked Linus Torvalds what he thought of Microsoft VP Craig Mundie's speech in which he attacked open source. Torvalds replied . . . (more…)

In response to statements delivered by Craig Mundie, Senior VP of Microsoft, to the Stern School of Business students at New York University, Alan Cox, one of the main developers of the Linux kernel, issued the following statement . . . (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…)

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…)

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

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

Contest: Using the NIC as an Embedded System

Last August we started the idea of a contest where Embedded Linux Journal readers offer an idea, and we give them the hardware to build the system. That first contest was based on the MZ104 board. (more…)

Need to add video capture to your PC/104 system? Use an ISA board and save a bundle. (more…)

Porting programs like xfreecell from X to Nano-X.

Nowadays, it seems that when I've got an idea for a new program I want to write for Linux, if I search the Net, someone's already published an open-source version of it. Such was the case recently when I thought it'd really be fun to have a graphical solitaire game for Microwindows. (more…)

Robertson and Bourne describe a low budget, long-life embedded communications interface. (more…)

Moving halfway between applications programming and real time, this series talks about using Linux systems for automation and control in the physical world. (more…)

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