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FSF: Microsoft cannot evade GPLv3
News The Free Software Foundation has dismissed claims by Microsoft that it is exempt from provisions of GPLv3 and has vowed to make sure the software giant "respects our copyrights and complies with our licences".
[August 29, 2007, 11:24]
European Commission report endorses open source
News The European Commission has issued a ringing endorsement of open source software, producing a confidence-boost for businesses considering the deployment of Linux and other free software. Secondly it said some workers may feel undervalued if they...
[January 15, 2007, 13:20]
Management tool keeps Linux systems in tune
News Systems management start-up Aduva is trying to reduce the cost of managing free software. Aduva, based in Palo Alto, California, has built a knowledge base with information on which Linux components work best together, along with other open source...
[September 28, 2001, 10:43]
Sun releases beta of StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled the beta of StarOffice 6.0, a streamlined version of the company's free office software that's aimed to gain ground against Microsoft's Office. But with its availability as a free download, the product had some...
[October 2, 2001, 17:49]
Turbo Internet
Downloads Update: all our software is now free. We decided that, to prove our good faith, we would make all our software free. Anyway, they accused us of conning our customers because we would allegedly sell software that doesn't work.
[November 23, 2001, 7:00]
Open-source legal body sues over GPL violation
News A legal team enforcing the most widely used licence in the open-source and free-software movement has shown that it's not afraid to take its cases all the way to court. The SFLC's willingness to sue Monsoon isn't the first recent example of legal...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
SugarCRM hopes support will sweeten open-source package
News Open-source software start-up SugarCRM plans to introduce support services for its free contact management product on Thursday, part of a big push to lure customers away from high-priced, proprietary programs.
[September 7, 2004, 13:55]
RAFT (Rapid Access Facts Tool) - BETA
Downloads Now in Progress: Beta Testing for Free, New Software.The Rapid Access Facts Tool (RAFT) Beta Test is open to everyone that would like to participate. We are eager to obtain all the feedback we can so we encourage you to share this software with...
[January 8, 2008, 7:00]
CA dangles open-source carrot
News Computer Associates International is out to prove that even when it comes to free software, money talks. The company is trying to assemble a "stack" of open-source software infrastructure products tuned to work with its existing commercial offerings.
[August 4, 2004, 10:50]
Government must force ISPs to take security seriously
Talkback Get help now, free software downloads. You can secure your own computer right now by links in the following page.http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com/free-software-downloads/ You will find help with AV/Spyware/Malware intelligence, links to...
[December 9, 2004, 11:23]
Tech activists fight for anti-copying debate
News Enthusiasts of free software disrupted a Commerce Department meeting on Wednesday, insisting on their right to debate against the entertainment industry over anti-copying technologies. Joining them was hacker-hero Richard Stallman of the Free...
[July 18, 2002, 8:50]
Skype review
Reviews The software is as easy to use as any instant messenger and lets you make free calls over the Internet using your desktop, notebook or handheld. Considering that the software is free, we were also surprised to find that it's ad-free.
[July 13, 2004, 9:25]
Stallman takes Gates to task over GPL attacks
News Attacks by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on the GNU General Public License (GPL), under which a lot of open source and free software is distributed, have been driven by a fear that the GPL creates a domain of software that Microsoft cannot...
[May 1, 2002, 11:07]
Free needle in a haystack
Blog The plan is to do some voluntary work at the local youth centre, and in the process slip in some Free Open Source Software on the computers. The PCs at the centre run Windows XP, and I wanted to see whether there's any free video editing and music...
[March 4, 2009, 10:47]
Nations uniting for open source
News A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option.
[August 30, 2001, 8:30]
Redmond proposes piracy amnesty
News Microsoft has announced what it hopes will be a new attack on piracy -- the Redmond-based giant has decided to give away free software to those who bought machines with fake copies pre-installed. Microsoft will be offering anyone who's "unsure...
[November 24, 2004, 16:20]
Microsoft opens doors to virtualisation format
News Until now, Microsoft has licensed the technology to other software companies for free. At an interoperability conference in Brussels, the software giant said that its Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format specification can be used by third parties...
[October 18, 2006, 8:45]
Microsoft accounts for small businesses
News Microsoft released on Monday free business-management software aimed at either the smallest of small businesses or at painfully late adopters. The software is available for free download at Microsoft's IdeaWins website.
[October 31, 2006, 16:12]
Possible prior art for Microsoft smiley patent found
Talkback The eeked out companies like Stacker who produced disk compression software by releasing free disk compression software in their OS bundle. Microsoft has always been a "bully" in the software world. Consumers have been kept in the dark too long as...
[October 10, 2005, 2:28]
New program mimics Napster
News A group of software engineers who work for a unit of America Online (AOL) has released an early version of a program that mimics the operation of Napster, the popular Web software that allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated...
[March 15, 2000, 14:03]
