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Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback Right from the start of the Open BSD project, the project spent a couple years doing a ground up source code audit to find and fix quality/security issues. The Open BSD project is focused on fixing bugs and securing code.
[June 19, 2005, 10:32]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback It is sad that we see persons from the BSD community openly attacking Linux when just last week Linus Torvalds in an interview went out of his way to avoid making a single negative remark about the open-source BSD's.http://os.newsforge.com/article...
[June 20, 2005, 15:41]
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope'
News An eminent software developer has claimed that the pressure to be first to market with new technology is leading to a decline in software quality, but that standards are higher in the open source world.
[April 22, 2005, 11:25]
Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
News Barnett from Ovum lays the blame on the lack of availability of open source educational applications and the usability of open source software. Open source consultant Spencer says it recently lost a tender to revamp the IT systems in a large...
[March 7, 2006, 14:00]
Open Source != Communism
Talkback Open Source is competitive capitalism in it's purest form. I am still at a loss as to why people think that Open Source is a left wing concept. Soon or later if open source spreads as all the open source advocates predict, the developers will wake...
[March 10, 2007, 9:50]
Open source awareness growing in Scotland
Talkback As for open standards vs open source, of course they are not the same but they complement each other - the software implements the standard and helps propagate the standard, reinforcing its value. Microsoft's announcement of XML support is another...
[September 12, 2005, 18:01]
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope'
Talkback It's mostly built upon Linux and other open source platforms. So the quote from the person who disagreed actually supports the assertion about the quality of open source software. I was at a presentation at OSCon last summer, where team members of...
[April 22, 2005, 18:28]
Open source comes of age
News The engineering concept of freely available source code was apparently simpler to explain than the GPL's freedoms; according to the Open Source Institute (OSI), usage of the term "open source" shot to popularity in the press within a few weeks...
[March 13, 2006, 17:10]
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope'
Talkback Still, the same problem will occurr if more open source developpers end up being commercially employed and motivated. Open source suffers from being open source. Very simple but very true : pressure to deliver drives quality down because users will...
[April 24, 2005, 20:23]
Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
News Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing will be solving many problems in the real world, open-source advocates have predicted.
[December 3, 2008, 17:23]
Open source needs culture club
Talkback However, let's get back to basics: if MS had not been so ourtageously greedy, Gates included, there would have been no need for Open Source. Of course a culture club will develop, without the need for some capitalist having a vested interest.
[November 10, 2005, 23:48]
Open source business email moves closer
News Using an open source business model and a modern development technique known as Ajax, the start-up is looking to unseat entrenched messaging suppliers IBM and Microsoft. Web-based messaging product available for free with an open source licence.
[November 15, 2005, 9:05]
Sun: Open source is about self-interest
Talkback The organisation running it has nothing to do with Open Source. The OSBC certainly *was* about self-interest. Speakers were chosen not on merit, but on how much they coughed up in fees (starting at £6,000).
[June 28, 2006, 13:39]
Open-source licence victory in model-railway case
News A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open-source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions.
[August 14, 2008, 17:32]
Open source protects the innocent bystanders in corporate battles
Blog This would be more of a worry if IBM and Sun were still locked into a proprietary software model themselves, but thankfully they've spent the past few years trying to out-open source each other. While the negotiations and prevarications over the...
[March 25, 2009, 11:20]
Also, Open Source...
Talkback Open source, rather, puts power into the hands of the people, and lets people change, improve, or add to the software as they please, which seems to be working extremely well. But if it was open source, the nature and location of the bug could be...
[September 20, 2009, 4:53]
Open source consortium wins EC funding
Talkback To me this looks like the EC focusing on substantiating the credibility of open source source thereby furthering its use in business, academia and government. In the absence of putative licensing costs, the increased use of open source source...
[October 24, 2006, 8:26]
Open-source advocate attacks patent laws
News Microsoft, the world's largest software company and a foe of the open-source world, isn't so critical of existing intellectual property law. The old will defeat the new unless you do something to prevent it," Lessig cautioned an audience full of...
[August 30, 2001, 8:46]
Open source groups ally to target schools
Talkback Support is not as important with open-source software because it just works and keeps on working even with workload changes. Software: Less of a security issue due to true priviledge separation which Microsoft's "user" accounts can't compete with...
[May 5, 2005, 19:07]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback Lyons and Forbes appear to have a chip on their shoulder against Linux and Open Source. Considering that the entire internet could not have existed without Open Source, this has to make one wonder whether Forbes and Lyons with their ideological...
[June 17, 2005, 17:58]
