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Fedora embraces Mono
News Brian Green, the direction of solutions management at Novell, said on Wednesday that it was "delighted" with this move and claimed that Mono is "one of the most interesting Linux projects around". The next version of Fedora, Red Hat's community...
[January 11, 2006, 16:50]
Behind the scenes at Mozilla HQ
News Alex Polvi, an intern from Oregon State University, is working on infrastructure and server administration projects at Mozilla. Although anyone can apply for these internships, Dotzler said that people who are already active as volunteers in the...
[July 19, 2005, 13:35]
Sun unveils its secret weapon against Microsoft
News Jxta is the latest in a long line of Sun projects designed to reduce operating systems such as Windows to mere cogs while people write software that works at a higher level. The open-source community has challenged not just Microsoft but also Sun...
[February 16, 2001, 8:34]
CA looks to open source
News Sun Microsystems has embraced the open-source model through its OpenOffice.org and NetBeans projects. Computer Associates International is looking to the open-source community for help in building its next wave of management software.
[May 6, 2004, 8:35]
Google plans OpenOffice hires
News But OpenOffice, like the other software projects the partners intend to work on, competes directly with Microsoft software - a point that has not gone unnoticed. Earlier in October, Google and Sun announced a partnership to boost several software...
[November 1, 2005, 8:20]
Sun: Open source for the masses
News Currently, all 18 projects are headed by Sun employees, but Roth said Sun is expecting "others in the community to take over some of them over time". It has divided the massive StarOffice code base into 75 modules, grouped into 18 projects, such as...
[October 13, 2000, 12:25]
Interview: Open-source advocate Eben Moglen
News We're taking risk out of projects everybody is using or is going to want to use. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the legal service which he founded in 2005 to represent key free-software and open-source projects, will continue to serve the...
[May 11, 2007, 15:15]
Andreessen: The future is PHP
News Oracle, which also sells Java server software and whose database software can be used as a foundation for either Java or PHP, is among those working on an addition to Java to help the two software projects work together.
[October 20, 2005, 13:10]
Do 'irresponsible' security researchers help or hinder?
News The general consensus in the developer community is that one would like to help the open source projects than to torpedo them," said Laura Koetzle, vice president and research director of Forrester Research and the author of the report.
[January 26, 2005, 15:20]
Open source 'split by digital divide'
News Few programmers in developing countries get involved in the mainstream development of open source software, leading to a digital divide within open source projects, a researcher from the United Nations University (UNU) claimed on Thursday.
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Debian group encourages women developers
News Debian Women is not the only group trying to encourage women to participate in open source projects. On the whole the wider Debian community responded positively to the Debian Women group, according to Faulkner, although one person had to be...
[December 14, 2004, 12:55]
John Warnock: Adobe's CEO talks to ZDNet, Part II
News What your readers should know is that for certain projects using open source is completely appropriate and especially for support on arcane platforms and handheld devices -- all kinds of things we're not going to take the initiative to support.
[July 23, 1999, 14:08]
Yahoo open-sources app for speeding up websites
News Yahoo released it as an 'incubator' project under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation, a seasoned organisation for managing open-source projects and also the site that houses the Hadoop open-source project Yahoo favours for large-scale...
[November 3, 2009, 17:03]
Next-to-last GPL 3 draft due this week
News The current GPL 2 governs the rights and restrictions of many open source and free-software projects, including high-profile ones such as the Linux kernel, Java and MySQL database. Compatibility would mean that software contributions made under one...
[March 27, 2007, 9:14]
Intel acquires Linux mobile developers for Atom
News Intel will continue to support existing Opened Hand projects, including software library Clutter, used for GUI creation, and Matchbox, an open-source base environment for the X Window System. These projects will become part of the Moblin project.
[August 29, 2008, 14:56]
LinuxWorld: Market slump to pay dividends for Linux
News The open source development portal Sourceforge, which enables developers to collaborate on a variety of programming projects and offers support services to companies using open source, says that a growing number of firms are seeing benefits to...
[February 2, 2001, 8:49]
Solaris code due today
News The licence precludes programmers from intermingling Solaris and Linux software but does permit swapping with projects under several other open source licences. Also on Monday, Sun confirmed plans to use the Community Development and Distribution...
[January 25, 2005, 8:00]
Comment: Not Your Garden-Variety GNOME
News Unlike most other free software projects, GNOME has laboured under the shadow of another Linux desktop for most of its development life: K Desktop Environment, or simply KDE. Everything from Apache to Samba to the Linux kernel itself use such low...
[March 30, 1999, 14:25]
Scott McNealy still busy at Sun
News Sun was long criticised as a company that benefited from many open-source projects without giving back in kind. And we think we can build a community for Java phones, like we've done with Open Solaris and Open Sparc.
[October 18, 2007, 16:40]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News However, it's not been used by very many projects, and I don't think having it on Sun's list of preferred licences is appropriate any longer," Phipps said in his blog on Friday. Having too many licences can result in islands of incompatible...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
