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OpenOffice gets major facelift
News OpenOffice.org announced that the final release of version 1.1 of the software is available for free download -- with versions for the Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems. The new version also includes built-in support for translating...
[October 2, 2003, 10:15]
AstroAppX
Downloads To start using the software create a free AstroCity login username from within the software and then connect to others using the FriendsList. Our software currently offers desktop remote control and mobile MP3 music streaming.
[June 23, 2009, 21:16]
AstroAppPalm
Downloads To start using the software create a free AstroCity login username from within the software and then connect to others using the FriendsList. Our software currently offers desktop remote control and mobile MP3 music streaming.
[June 30, 2009, 14:34]
Microsoft opens up charting program's XML schemas
News The software giant will provide documentation and royalty-free licences for the extensible markup language (XML) schema the diagramming and drawing program uses to describe documents. Microsoft on Thursday expanded its programme to release...
[April 16, 2004, 10:30]
Slash builds free portals
News Consultants with experience in Apache Web server, Perl, and MySQL database may find a profitable niche implementing internal Slash sites for their clients, because, while the software is free, the implementation is tricky.
[October 3, 2002, 14:06]
MandrakeSoft flirts with non-open source
News The company's new Multi Network Firewall (MNF) software is free and ships under an open-source licence for those who don't need support, Paris-based MandrakeSoft said Thursday. But the two licences -- the seminal General Public License (GPL) for...
[December 17, 2002, 7:50]
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News The World Wide Web Consortium is opening the possibility of pushing back against an Apple patent on software updates that Apple had refused to license royalty-free for use in a proposed web standard. The patent, which Apple applied for in 1995 and...
[June 18, 2009, 8:54]
Kazaa founders tout P2P VoIP
News In just its first week of availability, 60,000 people downloaded the free Skype software. How does Skype differ from FWD, which is also a free software download and free phone service? How long did it take to come up with the Skype software?
[September 12, 2003, 10:30]
StarOffice 5.2 beta available for download
News The software is currently available for free download at the company's site. Sun has added a new player for StarOffice 5.2 software presentations. StarOffice, which was acquired by Sun last autumn and given away free over the Internet, has seen...
[April 7, 2000, 13:10]
Open source developers step up anti-patent campaign
News Over the last month various open source projects have replaced their Web home page with one that outlines the risk that the EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions, more commonly known as the Software Patent Directive...
[April 14, 2005, 11:55]
EU site pushes open-source education
News The site adds to the EU's substantial moves to support open source, which is seen by many EU member states as a way of cutting public-sector costs, stimulating the local software industry and fostering interoperability free of proprietary...
[December 22, 2003, 11:30]
Skype getting nearer the big time
News The Luxembourg-based upstart has so far signed up 29 million registered users for its free voice-over-IP (VoIP) software &mdash making it one of the fastest-growing services on the Net. Skype's core service, while free, requires that both caller...
[March 18, 2005, 13:20]
Sun wants to lift its Java profile
News The software is available for free download and deployment. By making its application server and Java development tools available for free, Sun hopes to seed the market for its Java software and generate sales of more complex products.
[April 13, 2004, 10:55]
Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats
Blog Comment I am soliciting help from members of the local Free Software Association I belong to. One issue will be non-free software, especially drivers. Personally, I think the competition should include totally Free distros as well as distros stuffed with...
[June 7, 2007, 23:01]
Microsoft prepares to take Office online
News The software maker is announcing Office Live Workspace, a free online tool for viewing, sharing and storing — but not editing — Office documents online. In addition to Google's effort, which, as of earlier this month, also includes presentation...
[October 1, 2007, 8:32]
Microsoft OneCare gets a bashing
Talkback The fact that there are flaws in software is a fact of life, whether or not that software is free. You can find similar software for free. Or there is *commercial* or *free* software for *NIX that can usually perform the task given some mechanism...
[March 2, 2006, 14:21]
Open source Java project wants code donations
News Geir Magnusson, a board member at Apache Software Foundation, said developing open source implementations of all parts of the Java platform will be difficult, but he hopes to speed things along by persuading companies and free software projects to...
[July 5, 2005, 15:00]
Hailstorm may mean end of free email
News The software company unveiled details of HailStorm on Monday, calling it a cornerstone of its software-as-a-service initiative known as .Net. Microsoft's HailStorm model, in contrast, would take content, services and even software away from the PC.
[March 23, 2001, 7:53]
"Fastest browser on earth" now free for Linux, Mac
News But the software maker plans to announce Thursday that it will make free versions of Opera 5.0 for both of these operating systems available later this year. Opera Software hasn't yet put the finishing touches on its forthcoming Mac and Linux...
[February 1, 2001, 7:39]
Is it easier to hire open source developers?
Blog Comment Software must be free" (from Texas). Recently I came across one comment by an ardent Linux proponent saying approximately (don't remember exact wording) that "It is a violation of my rights -- like 1st amendment right -- when software vendors...
[October 31, 2007, 10:41]
