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Who has trillions riding on Linux this fall?.....

Harold Welte and the power of open source celebrity.....

How open is OpenOffice?.....

The sinking state of the economy boosts open source.....

JavaWorld's OSCON recap.....

The Linux kernel development community is petitioning for open Linux kernel drivers, and the Linux Foundation has posted a supportive statement.ﾠ As Matt Asay says, and as we've said before this has been a long time coming....

Phones based on Google's Android platform are being delayed until the fourth quarter. ﾠ ZDNet sees it as the carriers' fault.....

HP has announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.....

Parascale, focused on storage for cloud computing, has raised $11.37 million in Series A venture funding.....

Sun Microsystems is out with an answer to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight Rich Internet Application tools: JavaFX. At the JavaOne show in San Francisco today, Sun's head of software, Rich Green, discussed what to expect from the new offering. Green claims JavaFX will arrive on 91 percent of desktops, 85 percent of cell phones, and 100 percent of Blu-ray players--no small claims. While I'm not positive it will have that bright a future on so many platforms, Green showed JavaFX running on Google's Android mobile platform, which is Linux-based. Here, there could be promise.

Just in advance of its annual JavaOne conference, Sun has leaked the news that it is finally planning a really-truly, no-fingers-crossed, open source version of Java. The plan is to tweak the OpenJDK project by removing the last few encumbered bits, so that the rest can be GPL'd.

What's this likely to mean?