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Datamation: "You may not have noticed, but Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Don't panic if you haven't planned the perfect date yet -- the open source community has you covered."

It’s official: Microsoft Kinect for Windows goes live on February 1. Announced by Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s final CES keynote, the technology is coming with the official Microsoft Kinect SDK, which has been in beta testing since June 2011, and includes Near Mode, a setting to focus and trail objects as close as 50cm away — perfect for at-the-desk use.

In the not-too-distant past, Macs were a relative rarity in the laptop bags of those attending open source conferences.

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds on the various toolsets available to mobile developers:

PORTLAND, ORE. — Every year I go to OSCON and am amused by the wild hair, impressed with the depth of passion and geekery, and inspired by some really big open source initiatives that people are collaboratively pursuing.

This year was no different.

Some in the open source community speculated that Mono was dead following Miguel de Icaza’s departure from Novell after the deal with Attachmate.

But this week, the open source development platform has risen, with the full support of SUSE and Xamarin, the company de Icaza founded to keep it alive.

Datamation: "Whether you're looking for financial software to manage your personal finances, your small business or for a large enterprise, the open source community offers a lot of options."

Linux.com: "Often the most impressive thing about the open source community is getting to watch someone step up to work on a task that's far from fun or glamorous in the traditional sense"

Oracle has contributed the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) Incubator, marking the end of Oracle ownership of the popular Sun legacy open source project.

But, Oracle may retain the trademark as the agreement only mentions the code.

TechRepublic: "Digital Rights Management is a hotbed of anger, misunderstanding, and debate in the open source community.

Having a vested interest in DRM, Jack Wallen asks the question, "Shouldn't Linux embrace DRM?"