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OStatic: "While I remain in agreement with many observers who see the economic downturn as potentially very positive for open source, I have to wonder whether we're going to see some of the leadership open source companies swallowed up in all the financial carnage."

"One Computer, One Child" is the rallying cry for a generation of technology education observers.

On August 22, the Fedora Project released an "infrastructure report" confirming what most observers had, by then, suspected: the project had suffered a major security breach.

The attacker got as far as a system used to sign packages distributed by Fedora.

On August 22, the Fedora Project released an "infrastructure report" confirming what most observers had, by then, suspected: the project had suffered a major security breach.

This article looks at what (little) is known about this incident, what we have yet to learn, and some lessons that can be learned from the whole thing.

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Apple Computer is guarding its server plans closely , leaving observers to wonder what will come of the product line.

After nearly a decade of active involvement in open source, IBM's commitment to Linux is broad and deep, said Inna Kuznetsova, the director of IBM Linux strategy &ndash.

This vision of IBM's rapport with Linux is shared by most, but not all, IBM observers.

LWN.net: "Google's purchase of YouTube always seemed questionable to some observers: it looked as if Google were buying itself a whole new source of copyright lawsuits.

One of the benefits of that purchase came through on July 2, when a U.S. District Court ordered Google to hand over its complete set of YouTube traffic logs, containing information about every video viewed on the service."

ZDNet: "It's a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft's longtime leader won't usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely accelerate what is already a changing attitude in Redmond..."