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The legal status of open source and Linux now seems clear. The contracts are legal, the software is legit.Where does the law go from here?

The CME now says that since it first started using Linux, the operating system's increasing real-time capabilities have "extended the fundamental savings of Linux, by enabling more transactions to be made in a given day."The CME Group last year handled 2.2 billion contracts worth $1.2 quadrillion...

Brendan Scott's Weblog: "In this series of posts we look at a number of generic legal issues which are relevant to developers, and especially to open source developers working for themselves or in small or medium enterprises."

Via Technologies announced that it has contracted open source leader and OpenMoko Lead System Architrect Harald Welte as the company's Open Source Liaison.

Welte will be responsible for helping refine Via's open-source strategy and ensure close collaboration with the open-source development community, says the company.

Tom Young, Computing , The DWP is refreshing its IT The Department of Work and Pensions is tendering for suppliers for 3bn worth of IT contracts.

Symbio Technologies -- whose innovative approach to server-centric, stateless computing using stateless thin clients and a unique boot appliance has won certifications, awards and contracts in the private and ...