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It's simple an Elephant moves slowly
Talkback And all the mice have made better slicker products :) eg opensource, linux, apache, mysql, gpl. Then along came Google and then the Elephant wakes up and tries to move fast . Just abit too late though as the Ark is sailing away :-)
[January 13, 2008, 8:53]
Google releases Android SDK
Blog One of the big issues with Android has been the fact that, because a big whack of it falls under the Apache licence rather than GPL, the code can be taken and made proprietary by the members of Google's Open Handset Alliance, with no onus on them...
[November 12, 2007, 16:38]
Apache Software Foundation takes Subversion in
Blog Subversion is also licensed differently to CVS, using the Apache licence instead of the GNU GPL. Subversion, the open source version control system, is now an Apache Software Foundation incubator project.
[November 6, 2009, 15:03]
GPLv3 release set for Friday
News Changes in the latest version of the GPL include the restoration of compatibility with the Apache License, the addition of patent retaliation clauses to prevent future arrangements similar to Microsoft and Novell's pact, and increased...
[June 28, 2007, 14:45]
Cisco proposes open-source alternative to Soap
News The licence will probably not be GPL, but a less restrictive licence such as the ones used by Apache or Mozilla, reports CIO. Cisco has announced an alternative to the web-services protocol Soap — and made it open source.
[May 27, 2008, 15:07]
The hidden success of open source (and GPLv3)
Blog Despite the controversy when it was released in June 2007, GPL has grown to over 6,300 projects, surpassing the CPL, Mozilla, MIT and Apache licenses, making it the fifth most popular open source licence.
[December 12, 2008, 10:20]
Is Java's future Cloudy?
Blog Geir Magnusson of the Apache Software Foundation has commented that the ASF's own efforts to produce a free Java implementation under a different licence to the GPL haven't been helped by the Java Community Process.
[June 3, 2009, 10:32]
KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Talkback Eventually they'll pick up on the choice.do it, or be marginalized.why do you think there's really only one commercial competiter to apache? I ran both OS/2 v3 and OS/2 Warp, and they were great in a lot of ways.but Linux has something OS/2 doesn't...
[February 8, 2005, 23:10]
Report reveals extent of open source in government
News To solve the problem, Mitre recommends that the department create a "Generally Recognised As Safe" list recognising widely used, reliable software such as Apache, Linux and the GCC compiler. Use of GPL within groups with well-defined security...
[October 30, 2002, 13:55]
Get your red-hot Linux apps
News Besides its own version of Linux aimed at the desktop market, the company also is fielding Nexxus, a contact manager, Mentor, a documentation wizard, IceSculptor, a desktop publisher, and Mohawk Apache, a server configuration product.
[October 20, 2000, 14:09]
JBoss-Microsoft partnership announced
News IBM is another competitor in the proprietary software domain, while open source competitors include the Apache Software Foundation and Red Hat. Unlike the GPL, the LGPL makes it possible to tightly integrate LGPL code with software that uses...
[September 27, 2005, 17:10]
No need to panic over MySQL
Blog PostgreSQL, Firebird, HSQLDB, even Apache Derby can all be called into service, depending on your needs. In the case of MySQL, this is the GNU GPL. MySQL users are nervous about Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems, according to InfoWorld.
[September 16, 2009, 17:37]
Famed open-source compiler gets a face lift
News GCC is used to create everything from Linux and its various BSD Unix cousins to higher-level software such as the Apache Web server, the Gnome user interface and the Jabber instant-messaging software.
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
Microsoft keeps its open source enemies close
News This way of talking about open source set the tone for debate - not only was Microsoft going to compete with Linux, Apache and the like, it was going to wage a holy war against the whole "un-American" idea of "free software".
[June 30, 2005, 17:00]
Open source to change the face of software says report
News Ben Laurie a UK-based director of the open source Apache Software Foundation emphasises the advantages that open source software development offers. The Linux operating system and the Apache Web server are two better known examples of open source...
[August 17, 2000, 7:17]
SCO updates its Unix product and open source attitude
News Among the included open source packages are Samba and MySQL, which are released under the GPL, as well as Firefox, Tomcat, Apache and PostgreSQL. Part of that attack was levelled at the General Public License (GPL), which governs Linux and which...
[June 24, 2005, 10:35]
Making Linux usable tops Torvalds' list
News Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache Web server software project, said Microsoft's recognition of the threat of open-source software -- and its response -- topped the list. Microsoft has launched a campaign to undermine the General Public...
[August 30, 2001, 9:23]
Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux
News In an email sent to ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, Stallman criticised the use of open-source software, such as Red Hat Linux, JBoss middleware and Apache web-server software, in the online payment system for the Oyster contactless cards used on London's...
[June 9, 2008, 13:13]
Open-source code finder aims to prevent lawsuits
News The Black Duck product uses a 50GB knowledge base, which is updated with new code from the open-source community through the use of spiders which trawl the Web looking for open-source code, and by monitoring 250 leading open-source projects and...
[October 18, 2004, 18:10]
Source for 64-bit Linux released
News Instead, almost all major software programs -- from development tools such as Java, Perl and Python, to enterprise applications like Apache, Samba and SendMail -- are either already ported to Trillian or are far advanced on their road toward 64...
[February 3, 2000, 9:55]
