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In an age where Linus Torvalds now regularly makes it into BusinessWeek as Linux's "technical shepherd," can it really be true that Linux still has an image problem? However hard a pill it may be to swallow, that's how it is, according anyway to one recent account of prevailing prejudices at a typical computer science department.

The biggest proportion of attacks on Linux systems come from authorized users, and most were enabled by security misconfigurations, according to a new survey of Linux developers from Evans Data.

Australia, the US and UK have joined forces in the fight against spam with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Washington over the weekend.

The General Public License, or GPL, is a novel thing. It was created by open source pioneer Richard Stallman, who also developed GNU, the open-source tools and apps that turn a Linux kernel into a Linux operating system. The GPL is intended to ensure that independent programmers and companies uphold the spirit of free software. "Free as in speech, not beer," is Stallman's oft-quoted motto regarding free software.

The General Public License, or GPL, is a novel thing. It was created by open source pioneer Richard Stallman, who also developed GNU, the open-source tools and apps that turn a Linux kernel into a Linux operating system. The GPL is intended to ensure that independent programmers and companies uphold the spirit of free software.

IBM Corp. reported a drop in revenue Wednesday for its second fiscal quarter compared to 2001, as it suffered from a weak overall economy and large reorganizations within its business units.

Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign Thursday announced a joint effort to craft new standards for addressing security concerns that many corporate users have raised about Web services.

Late to the Web services game, Sun Microsystems is preparing a development framework that will enable programmers to build applications accessible via the Internet.