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OSDL boss hints at Microsoft collaboration
News Cohen added that proprietary software development was enormously important to the future of Linux and open source software, and that they would continue to co-exist. There is an opportunity for a tremendous amount of software, mostly proprietary...
[July 11, 2005, 18:15]
Stephen Fry kicks off GNU's 25th birthday party
News The GNU/Linux combination provided the first completely non-proprietary way for people to run a PC. We intend for the 25th anniversary to be more than just a reflection on the history of the free-software movement, because, despite all of the...
[September 2, 2008, 14:49]
Open-source payroll application launched
News John Pinner, managing director of Clockwork, said he estimates companies will save between £1,500 and £25,000 over comparable proprietary software. Clockwork's business manager Welch said he thinks open source is better than proprietary as it...
[November 25, 2004, 14:50]
UK Government reckons this open source thingy could catch on maybe
Blog And what about that headline - "levels the playing field' - that seems to imply that until now the government has been quite happy with uneven playing field when it comes to procuring anything but proprietary technology but I might be being unfair.
[February 25, 2009, 8:55]
The OSC's open letter to Becta
Blog Comment I fully agree with Mr Taylors definition of this being the case of "jobs for the boys, spin, and discrediting non-proprietary software" Becta are simply paying lip service to the idea of OSS in education, they'll use it as a stick to beat...
[June 16, 2008, 9:22]
HP lures Sun customers with gifts
News We're targeting people who feel that they're stuck with Sun Solaris proprietary Unix systems and giving them a chance to move to an open system," said Marc Jourlait, vice president of enterprise marketing programs at HP.
[October 6, 2003, 14:15]
Compaq, Intel, MS team on clustering spec
News Clustering technologies traditionally have been targeted at high-end computing because they required proprietary hardware and software, which can carry a relatively high price tag. Because they were proprietary, there were relatively few...
[December 17, 1997, 9:40]
The danger in Skype's plans
News Third-party applications are an important competitive bulwark for Skype, which is pushing to make its proprietary software an industry platform. Since the company began licensing or giving away its proprietary source code late last year, an...
[April 4, 2005, 16:55]
Sun boosts open storage strategy
News Today's storage industry resembles the server market of 10 years ago, with most companies locked into proprietary systems, Sun said, arguing that open source can increase performance, cut costs and allow for more innovative software.
[May 1, 2008, 13:33]
Sony CMD-MZ5 review
Reviews Since MS is a proprietary competitor to the open MMC and SD standards, you can currently use it only with Sony devices. If the rest of the MZ5 was ground-breaking, like the Siemens SL45, then you could forgive its proprietary memory expansion system.
[July 24, 2001, 0:00]
Re: The big con - open source
Talkback Proprietary file formats? It is generally a disadvantage for proprietary software vendors to adhere strictly to open standards in file formats, protocols and such. The 'Big Con', open source is being marketed by ‘Open Source’ companies that it is...
[January 7, 2009, 7:54]
Linspire launches free Linux distribution
News Freespire provides a free marketplace for any and all Linux software, including proprietary, open source, free and commercial products," said Linspire's chief executive, Kevin Carmony. Freespire also includes proprietary third-party software in...
[August 10, 2006, 12:50]
Stallman: Protect the freedom of free software
News It's becoming increasingly common for companies to run proprietary software such as the Oracle database on GNU/Linux (Stallman takes exception when people refer to the operating system as Linux for reasons we'll explain later), but that's not...
[October 11, 2004, 14:45]
Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
Talkback The OpenSuse project has put out an amazingly easy to use desktop OS where networking, desktop navigation and ability to "surf the Web and write documents" is as easy or easier than the latest offerings from proprietary companies.
[March 7, 2006, 18:39]
Financial customers get Liberty software
News SecuritiesHub lets customers tap into proprietary trading and bond information from the Wall Street firms with a single username and password. Hub ID previously used a proprietary standard called Cooked URL, but Communicator decided to move to...
[February 3, 2003, 10:57]
RealNetworks muscles into iPod
News We think consumer choice is going to win out over proprietary formats. The new Harmony software, which RealNetworks said mimics the proprietary copy protection used in Apple's iTunes store, is sure to be controversial.
[July 26, 2004, 8:55]
Massachusetts to use both Open XML and ODF
News The company insists that OOXML, having gained certification from standards organisation Ecma International, is now an Ecma concern, and no longer a proprietary standard. To date, OOXML has been implemented in a single, proprietary product...
[August 2, 2007, 18:20]
Microsoft software implicated in air traffic shutdown
Talkback So, there was a problem with the PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE (last I checked, MS doesn't make PC's) they knew about, and chose to ignore it, instead sending out a tech every 30 days to reboot it. What does the OS have to do with anything when you're...
[September 22, 2004, 17:50]
Open source battle heats up over Oregon bill
News On the other side were representatives of proprietary software makers, including the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the ISC, who worried that legislators were being misled by claims that open-source software is free of costs.
[April 10, 2003, 7:52]
Government still tech agnostic despite Vista concerns
News However, speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at the BETT educational technology conference in London, schools minister Jim Knight said opportunities for learning existed with both open-source and proprietary software.
[January 9, 2008, 15:55]
