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Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:56 Sunday, 10 February 2008 21:52

Yahoo! plans to respond to Microsoft's merger proposal. Google's wish is temporarily granted. Microsoft's bid is not big enough, and Yahoo! Directors want more. Read on for more information.

Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2008 12:31 Sunday, 10 February 2008 21:04

To celebrate, BHFO would like to welcome Matthew Bradford as a News Editor. In addition, we would like to welcome Jerry W. Anderson Ph.D. J.D. as our resident Legal Editor. He will provide legal insight for stories, such as p2p issues and those tricky apple patents.

Looking to the future, a corporate Senior Network Systems Analyst will be contributing content to the site. He has two compelling articles in the works. Profiles and more information on our new crew will be up within the week.

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 February 2008 23:11 Sunday, 10 February 2008 01:47

There is a war out there with lots of tension: Closed versus Open Source. Which will ultimately win? Linus sees things as nearly grim, but even the military can mess up Linux. It is possible a large state can adopt Open-Source, but as they say, "slow and steady wins the race."

Those that are more concerned about Geocaching experiments should check out the Linux Geographic Information System or GIS.

KDE has been huge lately. The new release, the hype, and the ink have turned-out numerous bug fixes from the humongous KDE community. The release has been bumped-up to 4.0.1. Ars technica gives it a clean bill of health.

Some people still need to run their Windows applications on their Linux boxes. Wine-Doors makes that happen on a graphical and easy-to-use interface. Their 0.2 release is looking good thus far.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:57 Friday, 08 February 2008 11:29

The intelligent people over at the NYU School of Business published their analysis of the Microsoft & Yahoo! Deal. Despite Google's hopes, they do not foresee any issues with regulators interfering with the merger. Read on for more information.

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 March 2010 08:21 Written by Chris Hunter Tuesday, 05 February 2008 06:53

Last Updated on Monday, 04 February 2008 11:09 Monday, 04 February 2008 10:29

Cray, our favorite Supercomputing Madmen, have decided to start reselling their infamous Moab Clustering Suite. Cluster Resources, Inc. are the guys to thank, and it looks like clustering might just be the next big step.

There are efforts underway to cover Open-Source OS/2. Good luck on getting IBM to release that source-code, they will hold onto that with their cold dead fingers.

Microsoft is a huge bastion of scary lawyers and programmers, they say, but Linus, our hero, has called the software giant. He is laying down his cards, and all bets are off. He thinks they are bluffing with their patent threats. This could get interesting.

NVIDIA has released their latest driver set for Linux: Phoronix are the guys to ask about them. In addition, everyone has been saying NVIDIA is purchasing Ageia.

Lastly, the newest version of Gimp: 2.4.4 is released to the drooling masses. These folks have always put out a quality, Open-Sourced product. Grab it, and get back to GIMPing. Happy hacking.