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National open source centre comes to Birmingham
News Founding partners of the NOC include the National Computing Centre, Birmingham City Council and the council-led Digital Birmingham initiative, which aims to build an IT future for a city with an industrial past.
[October 25, 2006, 16:00]
French Inland Revenue service goes open source
News The move comes as part of a French ministry initiative called 'Copernic' that will overhaul the country's entire tax IT infrastructure. The French Inland Revenue service announced on Thursday that it has chosen JBoss's open-source application...
[August 5, 2004, 17:00]
European Commission denies favouring open source
News The Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) wrote to the Commission immediately after the release of the report urging it to contact the "international press" to "set the record straight" over its stance.
[January 30, 2007, 11:48]
Europe extends open source resource
News Eddie Bleasdale, owner of consultancy NetProject, said: "I would question the need for a government initiative to manage the source code for open source projects. The European Commission is launching a resource for public sector organisations to...
[October 12, 2006, 17:25]
So... is the open source model broken or not?
Blog The original article actually says "the open-source business model that relies solely on support and service revenue streams is failing to meet the expectations of investors", and it's by Stuart Cohen, CEO of Collaborative Software Initiative, and...
[December 4, 2008, 9:03]
Microsoft: ready for open source threat?
News Microsoft has been touting plans to broaden Windows source-code access to business partners in an initiative it calls its "shared-source philosophy. The plan is a software-as-a-service initiative similar to plans from competitors including Hewlett...
[June 19, 2001, 11:29]
Managing content the open source way
News The four-year-old initiative, backed by the British government, has resulted in an open-source CMS, customised for UK local authorities. It feels like a week hardly goes by without public sector organisation on the European mainland announcing a...
[April 19, 2005, 17:25]
CA looks to open source
News Even Microsoft has borrowed concepts from the open-source world to improve its developer relations programs and its Shared Source Initiative. Computer Associates International is looking to the open-source community for help in building its next...
[May 6, 2004, 8:35]
Putting too much trust in open source?
News With Microsoft launching a major security initiative in response to recent criticism, some fear that Linux and open-source developers have become complacent in the commonly held belief that open-source programs are more secure.
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
South African TV show evangelises open source
News As for future shows, Black said it has a number of open-source luminaries lined up, including Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond, the co-founders of the Open Source Initiative, which promotes Linux and open-source software to businesses.
[November 24, 2004, 14:20]
NASA may launch open-source software projects
News In the end, the paper recommends that NASA consider the Mozilla Public License for that agency's open-source development initiatives, since the licence is recognised by the Open Source Initiative, requires that derivative works also be open source...
[May 19, 2003, 8:07]
IBM makes a patent offering to open source
News IBM will allow royalty-free use of patents in any software covered by the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition, the company said. IBM has decided to let open source developers use 500 software patents without fear of an infringement...
[January 11, 2005, 8:15]
Aussie agencies accused of locking out open source
News Both bills attracted the attention of a US software industry lobby group, which claims to be backed by developers working in both proprietary and open-source fields, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC).
[September 19, 2003, 9:30]
South African TV show evangelises open source
Talkback For a developing country like South Africa the benefits of open source are enormous, this initiative will bring computer literacy to thousands of people who would never have had the opportunity with proprietry software like XP.
[January 14, 2005, 10:23]
Microsoft to open source? Not likely...
News The statement, signed by the president of the Open Source Initiative, among others, reminded Microsoft that open source code "open source is not magic pixie dust" and that "that empty demonstrations and half-measures won't do.
[April 9, 1999, 15:07]
Java developers indifferent to open source Java
News Last year, Eric Raymond, the president of the Open Source Initiative, said that Sun needs to choose between controlling Java and seeing it spread as widely as possible. The majority of Java developers that Builder UK spoke to at the JavaOne...
[June 30, 2005, 17:40]
Delay hits open-source .Net project
News Mono is clearly intended to provide some of the .Net advantages to open-source advocates, but that class of developer is usually virulently anti-Microsoft, so winning them over to a Microsoft-related initiative, even if it's open source, is likely...
[November 19, 2003, 9:30]
Google's adventures in open source
News Jean Camp at Indiana University, is an online anti-phishing initiative. Search giant Google is a heavy user of open-source software and an active participant in many projects that develop it — even chipping in some funding, Chris DiBona says.
[December 14, 2006, 7:45]
Microsoft keeps its open source enemies close
News Microsoft has made a number of experiments in co-opting aspects of the open-source model, including the Shared Source initiative, which now has 20-odd programs and 1.5 million developers involved, according to Shared Source director Jason Matusow.
[June 30, 2005, 17:00]
Meet Sun's open source ambassador
News A month ago, Sun announced plans to open source StarOffice and related programming interfaces and file formats via the Opensource.org initiative. As Sun Microsystems's unofficial ambassador to the open source community, Marco Boerries has a tough job.
[August 17, 2000, 9:42]
