PC Magazine - Analysts predict that open source software vs. proprietary software will be a battle worth watching at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, opening next week in San Francisco.

NewsFactor - Google has launched a beta site service for open source software, called Google Code Project Hosting, available at http://code.google.c­om/hosting. Announced late last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon and sporting a tagline of "Release Early, Release Often," Google Code provides space for developers and users to exchange open source software and collaboratively work on projects.

Macworld.com - Google is offering to host open source software development projects in a move that has been met with mixed reaction from the developer community online.

InfoWorld - Intellectual property issues have become a paramount concern in software development projects lately, with a great deal of the angst arising from the use of open source software.

InfoWorld - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The open source software paradigm has changed the software market, but open source itself is becoming so established that it will be boring in five years, panelists said at an industry event held at the Computer History Museum on Wednesday evening.