Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)
Ruphus13 writes "A lot of developers for open source systems program have full-time day jobs
too. As economist Milton Friedman said, 'The line of vocation is business.' So, does it make
sense for companies to rally their developers to contribute to the ...
(more)Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes (Monday 04th of August 2008 09:45:01 AM)
Mjasay writes "Microsoft's most recent annual report suggests that the company is increasingly
coming to grips with open source, yet also seems set on to perpetuate myths about open source
that poorly serve it and its shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve ...
(more)VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Billybob2 writes "VIA has published three general expenses systems guides that total 800 pages
in length and cover their PadLock, CX700, and VX800/820 technologies. The VIA PadLock provides
a random number generator, an tolerant
if (lexico_global...
(more)Analyst says Android and Symbian to merge, Nokia and Google to get matching tattoos (Friday 25th of July 2008 05:00:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones
According to the oracle-like superbrains at J. Gold Associates,
Google's Android OS and Nokia's Symbian will "combine to provide a single open source OS,"
sometime in the very near future... say, three to six months. Sure, Android ...
(more)Critiquing Claims of an Open Source Jobs Boom (Friday 25th of July 2008 01:30:02 AM)
Snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder examines what appears to be an open source job market
boom, as evidenced by a recent O'Reilly Report. llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new
dictionary to the study, 5 to 15 percent of all IT openings call for ...
(more)Radiohead Open Sources Music Video (Friday 18th of July 2008 07:35:35 PM)
Ruphus13 writes "Following up their 'pay what you like' music album, Radiohead is once again
pushing forward with trying to innovate in an crew that has 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt
publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing ...
(more)Rare Tour of Sun Microsystems' "Wonderland" (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 08:24:59 AM)
Surinder Kahai writes "Last week I had the rare fling* to see an welling virtual world called
Wonderland, the product of an open source project, Project Wonderland, sponsored by Sun
Microsystems. The tour was given by Nicole Yankelovich, Principal sleuth ...
(more)Open Source Twitter Competitor Emerges (Saturday 05th of July 2008 04:10:08 AM)
Ruphus13 writes "Twitter has had a lot of public woes with Open Source technologies like Ruby
on Rails, and a lot of alternatives have sprung up in the micro-blogging world, but no one has
managed to dislodge twitter in its usage or appeal. Now, an ...
(more)A Year of GPLv3 (Tuesday 01st of July 2008 11:55:16 PM)
Javipas writes "GPLv3 and LGPLv3 were released one year ago, on 29 June 2007. Palamida, who
tracks Open Source projects, has made a study of the current seat of these licenses along with
AGPLv3, which was released later, in November. The number of projects ...
(more)Alfresco-Adobe Pact Continues To Strengthen Open Source (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)
Rsmiller510 writes "Last week Adobe thrown off a few people with the announcement that it was
including Alfresco content superintendence government-provided services as part of its
LiveCycle business Suite Update 1 package. The surprise was two-fold, ...
(more)Orbitz Open Sources Tools To Manage Large Distributed Applications (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)
Mjasay writes "CNET is reporting that on Monday Orbitz will annunciate the institution and
release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite,
both 'part of a Complex Event Processing system designed to monitor ...
(more)What Does It Mean To Be an Open Source Author? (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 03:15:04 PM)
Lolococo writes to tell us that Laurent Cohen, founder of the open source project JPPF (Java
Parallel Processing Framework), has decided to share what life is like for an open source
supporter
copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus ...
(more)Canonical makes Ubuntu Netbook Remix official at Computex (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 05:00:00 PM)
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Not like we weren't totally expectant this or anything, but
Canonical has chosen Computex as the expo where it will officially showcase Ubuntu Netbook
Remix. Hailed as a "reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically ...
(more)Microsoft Acknowledges Open Source As a Bigger Threat Than Google (Friday 30th of May 2008 02:56:00 PM)
Ruphus13 takes us to ZDNet for an neurosis of notification by Microsoft's Chief systems program
Architect, Ray Ozzie, about how open source is "much more potentially disruptive" to
Microsoft's line brainchild* than Google. Ozzie also spoke about the future ...
(more)Microsoft 'Shared Source' Attempts to Hijack FOSS (Monday 12th of May 2008 08:09:03 PM)
Aacc1313 writes "An article that details how Open Source is being hijacked by Microsoft and the
sort via 'Shared Source' licenses and how Open Source licenses have become so much more
confusing. From the article, "The confusion stems from the fact that ...
(more)Recruitment Options For a Small-Scale FOSS Project? (Monday 12th of May 2008 08:09:03 PM)
Thermian writes "I've been third world country my open source project for several years now,
and I've never found a solution to one fairly important issue. How can a small-scale project
attract new members? My project is pretty specialist, (no URL, sorry, ...
(more)Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income (Sunday 04th of May 2008 09:24:28 AM)
Mjasay writes "Ever wonder why open source is so popular in Brazil and other BRIC nations? As
one study suggests, one big reason may well be Microsoft's punitive pricing, which exceeds 20
percent of Gross subject Income for businesses in Brazil (and 7.8 ...
(more)Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork (Thursday 01st of May 2008 06:00:04 AM)
Paleshadows writes "Pidgin, the premier multi-protocol instant messaging client, has been
forked. This is the result of a heated, emotional, and very interesting debate over a
controversial new feature: As of version 2.4, the ability to manually resize ...
(more)Microsoft-Novell Takes Open-Source to China (Monday 21st of April 2008 07:00:04 PM)
Bibek Paudel writes "In a move to tap the growing market of free and open source-softwares in
third world nation economies, Microsoft and Novell have announced they were expanding their
alliance into the Chinese market. Microsoft and Novell believe big ...
(more)Is Open Source the Answer To Giving? (Sunday 20th of April 2008 05:55:13 PM)
Uctpjac writes "Mark Surman, Shuttleworth substructure fellow, writes that open source is the
answer to philanthropy's $55 trillion question: how to spend the money expected to flow into
foundations over the next 25 years. While others have lashed out ...
(more)Hackontest — 24h Open Source Coding Marathon (Saturday 19th of April 2008 03:55:12 PM)
Maemst writes "Can you code 24 hours non-stop? Hackontest is a new Google-sponsored 24-hour
computer-aided testing languages competition between different open source projects. Its goals
are to enhance Free system os projects indisputable to user needs ...
(more)Microsoft Gets a New Open Source Chief (Thursday 10th of April 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Mjasay writes "Microsoft just promoted Sam Ramji to run its growing Linux and open source
operations. The former head of Microsoft's Open Source os/2 Lab, Ramji has a long history with
open source, having built out large-scale open-source based applications ...
(more)A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit (Tuesday 08th of April 2008 04:55:45 AM)
Jacob's ladder writes "Ten years ago this week, the Free ms-dos Summit arguably marked the
beginning of today's OSS movement. Ars Technica interviews many of those in attendance when the
revolution began. John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl scripting ...
(more)Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move (Friday 04th of April 2008 11:40:53 PM)
Willdavid writes to mention Joe Panettieri is reporting that Microsoft is postgraduate work
their push for open source ms-dos interoperability. In the most recent push Microsoft is
partnering with a small Silicon Valley company called SpikeSource to certify ...
(more)Jail-Breaking iPhones at the Apple Store (Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:00:05 AM)
An secret reader writes "According to an article in Xconomy, iPhone hacker and author us
government Zdziarski was invited to speak at an Apple Store in Cambridge, MA last week where he
talked about the history of iPhone hacking, jail-breaking, and limitations ...
(more)Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies (Thursday 27th of March 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes "New Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has hit out at enterprises, bemoaning
that billions of dollars are wasted each year because 95% of companies won't share code.
speechification at the Open Source Business rap in San Francisco, he ...
(more)De Icaza Regrets Novell/Microsoft Pact (Saturday 08th of March 2008 04:00:02 AM)
Ian Lamont writes "Novell Vice feds* and GNOME architect Miguel de Icaza sounded off at a MIX
08 panel on a number of topics. First, he claimed that he was 'not happy' with Novell's
cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, saying that if he had ...
(more)Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students (Wednesday 20th of February 2008 06:30:04 AM)
Beuges writes "The customer's broker Press is reporting that Microsoft will make full versions
of their development tools available to students. "The Redmond-based systems program maker said
late Monday it will let students initialize Visual Studio Professional ...
(more)A Look Back At 10 Years of OSI (Wednesday 13th of February 2008 12:30:01 AM)
Blackbearnh notes that this week marks the 10th feast day of the Open Source Initiative. He
points us to O'Reilly's ONLamp site, where Federico Biancuzzi (who frequently interviews
notables in the Open Source people for O'Reilly) has a stack of interviews ...
(more)Should IBM's SOM/DSOM Be Open Sourced? (Sunday 10th of February 2008 11:00:09 PM)
Esther Schindler sends a note about two journalists for very different publications (herself
one of them) urging IBM to open-source, not all of OS/2 — they've consistently refused to
do that — but instead one of its most powerful features: ...
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