“As the open-source and Linux faithful flock to Boston for the
annual East Coast LinuxWorld Conference this week, they are going
to be met with news that Novell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both
plan to announce the open-sourcing of some new technology at the
event.“Novell, which has embraced Linux across all its product lines,
will announce this week that it has contributed some of its
eDirectory developer interfaces to open source, allowing
third-party applications to leverage eDirectory passwords for
secure authentication…”