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Mozilla marks 10th birthday, warns of Firefox bug
News On 22 January, 1998, Netscape Communications Corporation announced its plans to make the source code for the Netscape Communicator client software available with free licensing on the internet. The Communicator 5 source code was made available on...
[January 24, 2008, 16:53]
SafeDrive: Safe and Recoverable Extensions Using Language-Based Techniques
White Papers SafeDrive has low overhead and requires minimal changes to existing source code. In order to apply SafeDrive to these device drivers, it had to change less than 4% of the source code. This paper presents SafeDrive, a system for detecting and...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft opens up Windows tools
News The release marks the second time Microsoft has released code on SourceForge under an open-source licence -- in both cases using the Common Public License. In April, Microsoft revealed the code for its Windows Installer XML (WiX) software, a set of...
[May 14, 2004, 8:45]
SCO to attack validity of Linux licence
Talkback But the problem with open source is you are letting the world know what your source code is. If we looked at the other organisations like Sun, MS, etc, would they have source code and ideas from other companies.
[August 16, 2003, 8:05]
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed on browser market
News Mozilla 1.0 will be compared against the latest generations of commercial browsers, so Mozilla spent the time necessary to make sure this release would indeed be ready for prime time," said a representative for Netscape, which created the project...
[June 6, 2002, 8:48]
SCO unveils code 'evidence'
Talkback Like GPL, a BSD style license allows any company to use the source code for commercial and/or free purposes. The difference is that a BSD style license allows the alteration of source code to remain proprietary (closed-source distribution).
[October 1, 2003, 19:11]
Hacker exploits Microsoft bug online
News The source code is thought to have gone unnoticed for two weeks. The code that was programmed on 21 June exploits a recently discovered bug in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS), which contains a buffer overflow flaw that could enable a...
[July 5, 2001, 16:54]
Microsoft opens up more code
Talkback So Microsoft is littering the Open Source world with open source code, which it no doubt wants to see end up magically appear in other peoples (GPL'd or not) software. I HOPE no one is buying this crap, and poisoning their minds by looking at the...
[September 30, 2004, 1:12]
Do Programming Languages Affect Productivity?: A Case Study Using Data From Open Source Projects
White Papers It was found that for 24 of the 45 pairwise comparisons, the programming language is a significant factor in determining the rate at which source code is written, even after accounting for variations between programmers and projects.
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
Microsoft and Red Hat to debate open source
News Mundie is expected to explain why Microsoft's vision of "shared source" software, where the software giant makes the source code of some of its products available to customers and partners while still maintaining the intellectual property rights...
[June 7, 2001, 13:16]
Crafty Bagle viruses keep spreading review
Reviews That event, in itself, wasn't too remarkable, given that the source code for the Bagle virus is widely available on the Internet today, and we've seen about 50 variations of Bagle since its inception in early 2004.
[March 7, 2005, 10:00]
Gates wades into open source debate
News In an interview on Tuesday with ZDNet at the TechEd 2001 conference, Gates observed that Microsoft routinely shares the source code for its Windows operating system with its partners. Open-source supporters point out that the GPL allows companies...
[June 20, 2001, 8:42]
Easy Replace
Downloads With syntax-shown source code, highlighted matches in source code, matches count, Easy Replace make the search and replacing work easy and clear. Easy Replace provides search and replacement for single file or multi files, block replacement in from...
[June 18, 2009, 4:19]
Adobe to hand JavaScript code to Mozilla
News Adobe will donate software to run JavaScript programs in the Firefox Web browser, the largest code contribution yet to the open-source Mozilla Foundation. The code will form the basis for a new open-source project called Tamarin, which will be...
[November 7, 2006, 9:00]
Linux firms adopt open-source media player
Talkback According to that definition a developer cannot charge for the use of their code in commercial products and still call it open source code. Open source is still 'free software' - freely available code for free enterprise whether that be non-profit...
[September 22, 2004, 16:18]
Microsoft wins Bristol antitrust case
News After two days of deliberation, a jury in federal court in Bridgeport, Conn.on Friday ruled that Microsoft didn't violate antitrust law when it raised the prices on its source code. Essentially, Bristol claimed that Microsoft hooked the company on...
[July 19, 1999, 8:47]
Sun planning Java improvements
News The new licensing tack is designed to give those developers more flexibility in how they can use the Java source code, Sun executives said. During the development of Mustang, Sun will release the source-code and binary versions of the software as...
[March 16, 2005, 11:45]
Open-Xchange development gets open-source boost
News Version 0.7.3 of the company's Open-Xchange email server went to beta on Wednesday following the decision to publish the source code under a GPL licence six weeks ago. The company said it released the source code to speed up development and to...
[October 7, 2004, 13:35]
Microsoft's open source arguments are arrogant, says IBM
News Open source allows free access to the programming code that makes up operating systems and applications, but also requires that any source code modifications also be made available. IBM has called Microsoft's recent attacks on the open source...
[July 5, 2001, 12:37]
Commerce Server Solution Assemblies
Downloads These assemblies are provided with source code and can be used to migrate a site based on MSIB or the Commerce Server 2002 Starter Site to Commerce Server 2007. The Commerce Server Solution Assemblies contain source code and Visual Studio Project...
[August 29, 2007, 12:27]
