Date: 03/16/05     Keywords: database, linux, google

Upgrade a network application and it propagates immediately to all users. In many ways that s all Google is, a networked Linux application (database-driven). They ve been very busy taking new features gold lately: Google Maps. (Slow loading, but attractive.) Google News. (Input your own keywords and dump their categories ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=190&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/15/05     Keywords: software

Yesterday ZDNet had a report that GCC, the compiler which turns most open source code into machine code, will soon update to Version 4.0. Codesourcery is managing the roll-out. What this means is that much of the software written under open source is going to start running faster and better. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=189&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/15/05     Keywords: software, web

Doing my evening browsing, I ran across the GPL Violations website, put together by Harald Welte -- one of the heroes of open source (or free software, if you prefer). Welte is a contributor to several projects, including the Netfilter/iptables project that provides the framework for packet filtering, network address ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=188&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/14/05     Keywords: software

Jason Matusow admits to some trouble with the word open. We can play the same game with license. Like open, license has many meanings. In software these involve permission to do or own something, or a document proving permission. In open source rights and obligations are ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=187&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

When corporate officers blog a type of Kabuki is taking place. What you re reading is advocacy, marketing and a bit of PR. What you see may be policy, but the Secretary may also deny any knowledge of the blogger s actions, causing the blog to self-destruct in 15 seconds. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=186&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/11/05     Keywords: software

A few days ago I criticized the OSDL and asked its leadership to display some PR skills.Yesterday, OSDL President Stuart Cohen (left)answered the call. Listen to a master at work:"There was a lot of due diligence around the world with people looking at the code and looking at software stacks, ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=185&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/11/05     Keywords: microsoft

You know the patent system has gotten bad when a company holding 4,500 patents is calling for patent reform. According to the piece in InfoWorld, Microsoft is calling for patent reform in the United States. Microsoft's idea of reform is a bit different from ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=184&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/10/05     Keywords: software

Wind River has continued its move toward open source, joining Eclipse and even contributing to SourceForge. I think this is big news, and not just because yet-another proprietary software outfit is dipping its toe in the open source water.Real Time Operating Systems like Wind River's VxWorks go into discrete devices ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=183&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/09/05     Keywords: linux

Is the Open Source Initiative work of reforming open source licensing stalling? That's one possible conclusion from word they now have their third president in three months, as originally reported by our own David Berlind. You will remember that OSI announced at LinuxWorld it wanted to cut the number of ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=182&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

The Parrot team has announced the release of Parrot 0.12. For those not familiar with the project, the Parrot project is a virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages like Perl, Python, Scheme, Befunge and others. It's a fairly ambitious project, though not quite ready for prime-time just yet. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=181&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/08/05     Keywords: software, linux

What the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) needs right now is a little PR help. So start spreading the GNUs. (A little free software humor there.) There are no enemies of Linux conducting a systematic campaign of disinformation aimed at undermining the enterprise credibility of the open source operating system. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=180&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/07/05     Keywords: software

The biggest threat to free software may be Moore's Law. That's because while it's easy to get free applications and free operating systems, you can't get a free BIOS. And in the future that's all the software many systems will have.Thus we have the Free Software Foundation's Free BIOS campaign. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=179&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Wondering about the status of Debian "Sarge," otherwise known as the next stable release of Debian? Andreas Barth has posted an update for the next Debian installer release candidate (RC3), which also gives some clue as to when Sarge might finally show up for duty. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=177&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

Late last year we identified a trend of second-tier application vendors making their products open source.The trend for 2005 is for major applications to tiptoe into this water, looking for competitive advantage with limited releases of source code.Exhibit A is Adobe Systems. They have released code for two interface modules, ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=176&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

Who is the leader of the open source movement? Does it matter?I ask this after reading an Alan Cox interview about Linus Torvalds in which Linus was said to be "a terrible engineer."This statement got more attention than it deserved because, I think, many people want a leader in this ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=174&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/03/05     Keywords: software, linux

New Scientist reports that a German teen, Nils Schneider, has managed to get Linux working on his iPod by using sound.Herr Schneider says Bernard Leach, a UK software engineer who helped set up the so-called iPod Linux project, worked out how to control the piezoelectric component within the iPod, which ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=175&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Nathan Willis suggests that open source could take a cue from Apple's PR department. Specifically, Willis says that open source projects would do well to emulate Apple's PR practices, given that Apple manages to garner huge amounts of news coverage each time they do product announcements. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=173&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

Movie production has gone open source with Blender 3D. A new version is now being reviewed. Blender is not a quick-and-dirty production tool. This is a full featured tool, and available under multiple operating systems, including Windows, under the GPL license.It not only outputs film, but games as well. I ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=172&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/01/05     Keywords: linux

IBM's open source strategy is pretty simple when you come right down to it.Linux, and open source, will unite IBM's past with computing's future.That sounds like it was written by someone in IBM marketing, but it's easy to explain with one story "ripped from the headlines" over at News.Com.Here it ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=171

Date: 03/01/05     Keywords: linux

IBM's open source strategy is pretty simple when you come right down to it.Linux, and open source, will unite IBM's past with computing's future.That sounds like it was written by someone in IBM marketing, but it's easy to explain with one story "ripped from the headlines" over at News.Com.Here it ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=171&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog