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Microsoft lines up management tools
News A product under development, code-named Service Desk, will be used as a foundation for a set of management-related tasks, such as keeping track of a company's hardware and software or updating software configurations from a central point.
[April 26, 2006, 12:25]
LinuxWorld: What's in store for open source?
News Wed 30 Jan: Veritas' Foundation Suite now runs on Red Hat's version of the Unix clone, the company announced at LinuxWorld Fri 1 Feb: In an effort to make it easier for software companies to bring their programs to Linux, the Free Standards Group...
[January 30, 2002, 12:49]
Samba leader quits Novell over Microsoft deal
News Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and original author of the General Public License (GPL), said in November that Novell's Microsoft partnership doesn't violate version 2 of the GPL but that changes coming with the version 3...
[December 22, 2006, 7:40]
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News In an article published by the Free Software Foundation, Stallman said that "only fools would ignore" the threat poised by Microsoft's patents. Commenting on Microsoft's appeal of the ruling late last month.i4i chairman Loudon Owen told ZDNet UK's...
[September 2, 2009, 16:03]
Industry group fights SCO with Linux education
News OSDL dipped its toes into the SCO waters when it published a criticism of SCO's case against Linux in July, written by Eben Moglen -- a law professor at Columbia University and the legal representative of the Free Software Foundation, which...
[November 27, 2003, 13:05]
Chuck D lays down the law on DRM
News A global Anti-DRM Day has been scheduled for 3 October by DefectiveByDesign.org, a subset of the Free Software Foundation. You've got artists who are just starting out who are understanding that DRM is a way of life," Chuck D said, adding that...
[September 19, 2006, 14:05]
EU rejects Microsoft's licence offer
News Carlo Piana, a partner at Milan law firm Tamos Piana & Partners, which represents the Free Software Foundation Europe, said the Commission has echoed the FSF's concerns on the matter. Following last year's EC antitrust ruling against the software...
[March 18, 2005, 9:40]
Microsoft denies Ballmer Linux 'warning'
News But Dan Ravicher, the author of the OSRM study and the executive director of the Public Patent Foundation, criticised Microsoft for using soundbites from the report. Steve [Ballmer] was referring to a study done by the Linux community group Open...
[November 23, 2004, 16:05]
Penguins pick up certification
News The LSB, administered by the Free Standards Group, a nonprofit organization of software developers and information technology industry members, in effect standardizes many of the basic parts of Linux while allowing companies to add their own...
[August 19, 2002, 8:00]
Microsoft: .Net alive and well
News Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, the group behind the open-source Web server software, gave Microsoft respectable marks for standards compliance but questioned the immediate effect.
[November 20, 2003, 9:30]
Red Hat releases newest Fedora
News The company established the Fedora Foundation earlier this month to give outsiders greater say in running the project and developing the software. Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance...
[June 14, 2005, 11:45]
Mozilla gives £70k grant for open-source video
News The Mozilla Foundation, which oversees Firefox and other open-source projects, has given a $100,000 (£70,000) grant towards development of the Theora open video technology. Administered by the Wikimedia Foundation, this grant will be used to...
[January 28, 2009, 15:15]
Linux firms adopt open-source media player
News Helix is the foundation for RealPlayer 10 for Linux, which includes both open-source components and commercial components such as SMIL, MP3, Flash, and RealNetworks' own RealAudio and RealVideo media formats.
[June 28, 2004, 16:45]
Government widens net of responsibility for kids
News David Kerr, chairman of the Internet Watch Foundation is keen for retailers to be informed about the dangers of Internet chat, and suggests that computers be sold with preloaded software filters. I would recommend the provision of free filtering...
[March 29, 2001, 16:18]
Bartercard disappointed with Vista and Office 07 betas
News Bartercard's chief information officer Jason Van said his team tested both betas for four weeks using Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Bartercard, which provides a type of global currency that lets businesses swap or exchange goods and services...
[July 26, 2006, 16:10]
Open-source projects grab dot-com dropouts
News Right now you are in the worst time if you are trying to do what programmers were doing three years ago," said Brad Templeton, chairman of the digital-rights advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation. The down economy has breathed new life into open...
[February 19, 2002, 11:36]
Firefox phishing flaw fixed
News Mozilla, an open-source software foundation formed by Netscape, was spun off from Time Warner in 2003. The Mozilla Foundation released an update to the Firefox Web browser on Thursday to fix several vulnerabilities, including one that would allow...
[February 25, 2005, 8:15]
Adobe brings Apollo to light
News There are a growing number of alternatives for building cross-platform rich internet applications, including Adobe's Flash, Ajax, Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere and OpenLaszlo.
[March 19, 2007, 9:15]
Court rejects patent for form-filling program
News It would have been a disaster if Macrossan was said to be patentable, because every business method under the sun would have been patentable," said Rufus Pollock, director of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a not-for...
[October 27, 2006, 13:15]
Can wikis change the Web?
News Wikipedia and Wikinews were created by the same non-profit organisation, Wikimedia Foundation, and are available free of charge. We wanted the [software] to be open source, available to everyone," said Susan Hudgens, one of the organisers of the...
[November 16, 2005, 17:05]
