LUP022 Linux and Open Source News for October 4, 2009

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Red Hat Files its Bilski Brief: Asks Supreme Ct. to Exclude Software From Patentability, Software Freedom Law Center Files Brief with Supreme Court Arguing Software Cannot Be Patented, ICANN gains independence from the U.S., Microsoft gets big show more...

patent verdict overturned, Another Microsoft Research Operating System: Helios, Microsoft Security Essentials Released, Dell Nestles ARM and Intel Processors Together, Mac OS X mistakes and malfeatures, Red Hat to collide with Microsoft, IBM takes on Microsoft, Court smacks Autodesk, affirms right to sell used software, Novell forces customers to pay for maintenance, Apple pushes unwanted enterprise tool to Windows users, OpenStreetMap adds 26 new translations, First External USB 3.0 Hard Drive from Freecom, New Trojan gives criminals full-service bank theft, The OpenBlockS 600 is a Linux server that fits in your palm, FSF announces new bounty program, offering “GNU Bucks” for finding nonfree works in free distributions, Google Bites Bing back, Recovers All Usage Losses Since Spring, ALRC going for open source CMS website, SCO Files Its Response to Novell’s Petition for Rehearing En Banc, Amazon Pays Out for ‘1984′ Fiasco, Former Microsoft Open-source Chief Joins Cloud Startup, Two Linux smartphones set for October release in U.S., Open Android Alliance formed, Palm Releases webOS 1.2, No iTunes Sync, Palm again hacks Apple’s iTunes for Pre owners, iPhone May Face EU-Wide Recall, MIPS Technologies Joins Open Handset Alliance.

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NEWS
Red Hat Files its Bilski Brief: Asks Supreme Ct. to Exclude Software From Patentability
Software Freedom Law Center Files Brief with Supreme Court Arguing Software Cannot Be Patented
ICANN gains independence from the U.S.
Microsoft gets big patent verdict overturned
Another Microsoft Research Operating System: Helios
Microsoft Security Essentials Released
Dell Nestles ARM and Intel Processors Together
Mac OS X mistakes and malfeatures
Red Hat to collide with Microsoft
IBM takes on Microsoft
Court smacks Autodesk, affirms right to sell used software
Novell forces customers to pay for maintenance
Apple pushes unwanted enterprise tool to Windows users
OpenStreetMap adds 26 new translations
First External USB 3.0 Hard Drive from Freecom
New Trojan gives criminals full-service bank theft
The OpenBlockS 600 is a Linux server that fits in your palm
FSF announces new bounty program, offering “GNU Bucks” for finding nonfree works in free distributions
Google Bites Bing back, Recovers All Usage Losses Since Spring
ALRC going for open source CMS website
SCO Files Its Response to Novell’s Petition for Rehearing En Banc
Amazon Pays Out for ‘1984′ Fiasco
Former Microsoft Open-source Chief Joins Cloud Startup

LINUX MOBILE NEWS
Two Linux smartphones set for October release in U.S.
Open Android Alliance formed
Palm Releases webOS 1.2, No iTunes Sync
Palm again hacks Apple’s iTunes for Pre owners
iPhone May Face EU-Wide Recall
MIPS Technologies Joins Open Handset Alliance

RELEASES
Ubuntu 9.10 Beta Released
9.10 Technical Overview
Linux 2.6.32-rc1 Released
NVIDIA Publicly Releases Its OpenCL Linux Drivers
Calculate Linux 9.9 Released
Chakra Alpha 3 Released
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 released
Python 2.6.3 released
X.org Server 1.7.0 released
Amarok 2.2 “Sunjammer” released
OpenSSH 5.3 is now available
Lightweight Arora web browser turns 0.10.0
Astaro Security Gateway 7.5 Released
Plamo Linux 4.7 Released
Sabayon Linux 5.0 Released
GoblinX 3.0 “G:Standard” Released
gzip-1.3.13 released
Perl 5.11.0 Released