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Microsoft marked another open source milestone last month. The company's Oct. 10 patch improved the Samba core code and was submitted under the open source GNU General Public License.

Creative Commons (CC) has been with us for nearly a decade, so you would have thought people might understand it by now.

Apparently not, judging by the title of this blog post: "How Creative Commons Can Stifle Artistic Output."

CPTN Holdings has altered some of the terms of their patent purchase from Novell in response to antitrust concerns raised by the U.S.

Department of Justice (DOJ). The DoJ announced on Wednesday, that “as originally proposed, the deal would jeopardize the ability of open source software, such as Linux, to continue to innovate and compete in the development and distribution of server, desktop, and mobile operating systems, middleware, and virtualization products.”

VLC media player is resident on the PCs of millions of Internet users.

It’s an almost perfect tool capable of playing videos and audio in just about any format found anywhere on the web, especially file-sharing networks.

Free and open source, when something can’t be played, VLC almost always provides the answer.

A new BitTorrent client called zButterfly saw the light this week. Based on the Vuze source code, the new client sets itself apart from the competition by offering a searchable catalog of movies in various qualities.

The developers of zButterfly are convinced that the movie centric approach will be appreciated by users, but it's doubtful that Hollywood will be happy with this latest innovation.

The movie-oriented zButterfly BitTorrent client was released to the public a few days ago after being tested in a private beta for a few weeks.

Tech Drive-in: "Inkscape is an open source SVG graphics editor released under GNU General Public License.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. Here are some useful tutorials for creating amazing vector graphics using Inkscape.

Also see beautiful wallpapers made using Inkscape."

OStatic: "This time, Eben Moglen has weighed in with an analysis of the objections related to the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).

Moglen disagrees with the commission, and says that the GPLv2 is sufficient to protect the MySQL community apart from Oracle."

NixCraft: "Celestia is a real-time visual space simulation astronomy program. It is a cross platform, open source software and released under the GNU General Public License.

NASA and ESA have used Celestia in their educational and for interfacing to trajectory analysis software."

Enterprise Networking Planet: "One authentication server you could use is called FreeRADIUS, an open source project, developed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2).

It is actually the most widely used RADIUS server in the world."

Howtoforge: "Drizzle is a Free Software/Open Source database management system (DBMS) that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS.

Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Drizzle is distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License."