Date: 03/13/09     Keywords: no keywords

This does not keep companies from making a commercial distribution from code created using the datagrid. It's just a "no backsies" clause. If you're going commercial with something you have an obligation to tell us.

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Date: 03/13/09     Keywords: no keywords

The headline -- open source is not free. But the body of the piece describes other support you can provide open source, even if you can't afford to write a check right now.

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Date: 03/13/09     Keywords: java, web

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is now available. The code offers improved Private Browsing Mode, including the ability to “Forget This Site” from the History sidebar, improved performance stability with the new TraceMonkey Javascript engine and new native JSON support, Mozilla said in a blog posted yesterday. The third beta also offers improvements to web worker [...]

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Date: 03/11/09     Keywords: software

Open source is not a charity. It's a business model. You use open source to make money. If you are only interested in the social benefits of free software, you're in FOSS, not open source.

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Date: 03/10/09     Keywords: web

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is done and beta 4 is slated to be released on April 14. That’s the latest from the Mozilla Firefox team, which held its weekly meeting on Tuesday. Q&A is expected to sign off on the long delayed beta 3 on Thursday and the beta 3 web page should be up and [...]

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Date: 03/10/09     Keywords: software

For IBM, software is a shared store from which it benefits, and to which it contributes. The company has built an arms-length relationship with the whole process of improving code.

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Date: 03/09/09     Keywords: no keywords

The result is an inexpensive system that mimics all the features corporate network managers and telecomm managers demand both to fight hackers and control employees.

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Date: 03/07/09     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft owns FAT32, but it didn't appear to pursue its rights against companies that supported FAT32 in their Linux thumb drives and consumer electronics. Until the TomTom case. At which point it comes out that Microsoft had secret cross-licensing deals with all those other guys which violate the GPL.

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Date: 03/06/09     Keywords: no keywords

Continuing its effort to get by with a little help from its friends, Nokia released a new version of its Qt user interface framework and Qt Creator, an integrated development environment (IDE).

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Date: 03/06/09     Keywords: no keywords

Coordinator Jim Batterson announced the project in October, and his 13 authors had their work done by February 27. They included active researchers, high school teachers, and college professors, as well as some retirees.

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Date: 03/05/09     Keywords: no keywords

Giving away an e-book and sending out a press release does not make you an open source project. That's not change we can believe in. That's marketing.

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Date: 03/05/09     Keywords: technology

TomTom lacks the financial resources to defend itself. Stand-alone GPS systems aren't that great a business, the real potential here being GPS as a technology platform, enabling other functions. All of which means that, if the SFLC chooses to make a fight of this they have to do more than hire a lawyer. They have to come up with the cash to do this case pro bono.

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Date: 03/04/09     Keywords: no keywords

The element that makes car travel hazardous, the human element, is not yet being addressed by GENIVI. And it may take years of innovation before it becomes possible, even on an experimental level.

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Date: 03/04/09     Keywords: linux

Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin offered nothing but praise to Sourceforge, noting they could have sold the name to the highest bidder but chose to approach the foundation instead.

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: software, asp, web

Acquia, KnowledgeTree and JasperSoft touted new open source web publishing, social software, content management and business intelligence products at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Acquia, of Andover, Mass., said it is on track this fall t ship a new social web publishing platform code named “Carbon” that is based on the open [...]

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community — but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how Microsoft could collaborate with an industry that was described by Microsoft [...]

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: xml, microsoft

Microsoft thinks it has the votes to get Office OpenXML (OOXML), the format of Microsoft Office, approved as an ISO standard. The key, it says, was a decision by the Czech Standards Institute to approve the format.

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: database, web

Terracotta offers a server which eliminates most trips to your database, which for Web applications saves a ton of compute time.

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

If ordinary users in other countries are fairly ignorant of a license's fine print does that make them any different from Americans?

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: software, asp, sql, microsoft

Microsoft and Jaspersoft are working together to ensure that Jasper’s business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software will be optimized for Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 and [...]

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