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Lost laptops get open-source rescue service
News The data captured by the client software — location information and, for the Mac OS X version, images captured by the built-in iSight camera — is encrypted so that only the user can access it. The researchers admitted that Adonea doesn't currently...
[July 30, 2008, 17:09]
US court: Reverse engineering is 'presumptively legal'
News Bunner attorney Allon Levy of Hopkins & Carley in San Jose, California, said the decision establishes important protections for software programmers who use legal methods to learn about proprietary products.
[March 1, 2004, 10:40]
Java standards battle nears close
News Differences in how Java software makers implement standards can cause incompatibilities, they warn, because they may add proprietary extensions to the base J2EE standard. For vendors to legally claim that their software is J2EE compatible, their...
[July 31, 2003, 14:00]
Microsoft debases Linux standards
News Linux and open source software have chosen to rely on public standards.that means that Linux is extremely interoperable with other systems, including proprietary operating systems. Various Linux vendors including Red Hat, Novell SuSE and...
[February 1, 2005, 11:20]
Novell plans launch of snap-response Linux
News FSMLabs, a small company based in New Mexico, sells a product called RTLinux that pairs the company's proprietary RTCore operating system for real-time tasks with Linux to run other software, such as the user interface.
[September 21, 2006, 8:55]
Australian government offers open-source guide
News The guide is being developed to assist agencies in making informed decisions on the merits of open-source software and to provide a basis on which these solutions can be compared with other options on the criteria of fit for purpose and value for...
[July 7, 2004, 10:55]
IBM: 'Linux is here to stay'
News Steve Mills, the head of IBM's software group, continued the pro-Linux drumbeat Thursday in a keynote speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York. Big Blue has 4,600 customers buying Linux servers, software or services, he said.
[January 24, 2003, 10:22]
Microsoft's open source arguments are arrogant, says IBM
News In recent weeks, Microsoft executives have launched an all-out propaganda war against open source software, based on the GNU Public Licence (GPL). Microsoft is trying to shore up its defences as the tide is coming in," Adam Jollans, marketing...
[July 5, 2001, 12:37]
Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool
News Software makers such as Parallels have been making Mac OS X virtualisation software for some time, but Sun is the first to release an open-source virtualisation product for the platform. The software was originally developed by Germany-based...
[May 8, 2008, 16:44]
Adobe open sources BlazeDS
News The software, to be called "BlazeDS", is a component of LiveCycle Data Services Enterprise Suite (ES), which provides data services such as remoting, data push, publish and subscribe. This in turn is part of Adobe LiveCycle ES, a suite of Java 2...
[December 17, 2007, 9:34]
Ten reasons open-source smart phones will not win out
Blog With open software this kind of thing gets much easier to do. There will be some issues to openness - take the UAE software update to the Blackberry that installed spyware on each and every machine - and this was carrier approved!
[July 23, 2009, 17:32]
Anger as Eric Raymond drops Red Hat
News Raymond wrote the seminal paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar in 1999, which compared various ways of developing free software. Raymond has vehemently argued that Linux should stray from its roots as truly free software, saying it has become...
[February 26, 2007, 9:13]
Email security appliances review
Reviews All are based on industry-standard server hardware, typically running a security-hardened Unix/Linux OS to provide the platform for the mail-screening software. All provided the same basic tools to screen out viruses and block spam, mostly using...
[November 12, 2004, 16:25]
Netscape deal to make AOL instant portal power
News The acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp.would solidify America Online Inc.s position as the top online company through the acquisition of Netscape's Netcenter portal, server software and business relationships, Internet industry experts...
[November 24, 1998, 11:51]
IBM brands OpenSolaris a 'facade'
News OpenSolaris is designed to appeal to developers, who have the power to sneak software into companies the same way Linux snuck in during the 1990s. I'm not sure why IBM is attacking the OpenSolaris community," said Jim Grisanzio, pointing to the 16...
[August 17, 2006, 8:45]
Office 2003 will 'protect Microsoft's monopoly' - Sun
News Sun Microsystems has expressed concerns that document protection tools that Microsoft will include in Office 2003 will fortify the software giant's domination over enterprise desktops. In a document never before released outside Sun, but shared...
[September 30, 2003, 9:35]
US Report: Microsoft asks court to keep pre-trial testimony closed
News In its request for a stay pending a more complete appeal, the world's largest make of desktop PC software conceded that a 1913 law required depositions taken in Sherman antitrust cases must be open to the public.
[August 19, 1998, 7:18]
Does Microsoft's Novell pact mean war on Linux?
News But the extent to which customers are reassured by the deal correlates directly with the extent to which they're worried about the absence of anything similar with Red Hat or any number of other open-source software companies.
[November 6, 2006, 8:57]
IBM: Open standards hold key to dynamic e-business
News But that's not enough -- we need to support open-source software," Wladawsky-Berger said. The bulk of IBM's $13bn software business is geared toward providing this capability and enabling this environment, and its applications are all modular and...
[August 16, 2001, 10:36]
Single biggest thing holding Linux back? Vendor lock-in
Blog In trying to get more businesses to adopt Linux and open source software over the past 18 years or so, I've discovered that no matter how good Linux becomes, one hurdle stubbornly remains - in fact, it's the biggest hurdle that Linux and free/open...
[February 17, 2009, 7:54]
