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While the opinions of outright SOPA opponents are well documented, it came as a surprise last month when the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a former staunch supporter, published a blog post indicating it had some reservations on the pending legislation.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds shared his opinions on Microsoft, Apple, open vs. locked down technologies and the future of Linux, at the LinuxCon Brazil conference this week.

More developers are now turning to Mac OS over Linux as their development platform, according to a recent survey.

The Evans Data North American Development Survey, released earlier this month, showed Mac OS surpassing Linux as the primary software development environment in North America.

Google has announced that it will buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. It has been approved by the directors of both companies and should pass regulatory approval by the end of the year.

With some 19,000 employees, revenue of $11 billion, and assets of $6 billion, Motorola Mobility is certainly not the biggest manufacturer of its kind — both Samsung and Nokia are many times larger, both in terms of revenue and market share — but this doesn’t make Google’s purchase any less significant.

By now, you’ve surely heard that a consortium of huge tech companies have won the auction for Nortel’s portfolio of telecommunications patents.

The consortium, which includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, RIM, Ericsson, and EMC, will pay $4.5 billion in cash for more than 6,000 patents, beating out Google, which originally offered just $900 million for the portfolio.

That’s great and all — but what inventions do patents actually cover?

Royal Pingdom: "So what kind of code names are developers out there coming up with? Here is a collection of code names for software products from companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Canonical, Red Hat, Adobe, Mozilla, Automattic and more."

Apple Inc.'s market capitalization on Wednesday surpassed that of Microsoft Corp.