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US Report: Red Hat's red letter day
News The principal benefit is this phenomenon called control," he said, adding that -- unlike more proprietary programs such as Windows -- Linux lets users change the basic source code of the software. He said Netscape's decision to release its source...
[September 30, 1998, 8:34]
Trustworthy Computing - could try harder
News Microsoft used the money to conduct an extensive security review of many Microsoft products, even going so far as to halt development work by more than 8,500 Microsoft engineers to facilitate an intensive vulnerabilities analysis of millions of...
[October 8, 2002, 9:15]
Windows 7, consistently, everywhere
Blog The company (if you buy the proposition) reckons that they their framework allows developers to build applications and user interfaces once, and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.
[September 21, 2009, 8:24]
New Linux in Autumn, says Torvalds
News Unlike Microsoft's Windows operating system, Linux is a free and released under the GNU public licence (GPL) meaning that the source code is publicly available. The next major release of the Linux kernel will be made available this autumn, promises...
[August 19, 2000, 7:10]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback Maybe if they placed more of an effort in creating the source code for a more user friendly Linux and with the help of the community they could find a common ground with the home user instead of turning them away as being too much of a burden to...
[November 5, 2003, 21:17]
Linux under threat from 'security update'
Talkback Linux IS more secure because ANYONE can EXAMINE the source code and MODIFY that code. Millions examine the Linux code, thousands examine the MS code. I hate explaining the Open Source model to people who have allowed themselves to be brainwashed by...
[October 25, 2004, 12:58]
When does Copyrighted Software cease to be Copyrighted?
Blog Comment I sent an email off to an attorney that specializes in copyright law and FOSS asking the question I posed in the blog, how small a chunk defines a copyrightable bit of source code. What I'm trying to say is that if you took the Linux kernel or...
[September 22, 2008, 7:56]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback And this is for a product line whose source code is kept secret ! So, without getting in the internals (that can not be veirifed since MS is closed source anyway), assuming that "Linux is moving closer to Windows" is just a moromic marketing...
[July 5, 2004, 18:10]
Microsoft to deliver Unix conference keynote
News DTrace, one of the most touted features of Sun's recently-released Solaris 10 operating system, provides advanced performance analysis and debugging features for server software and recently had its source code made publicly available.
[October 13, 2005, 13:25]
Free Software is dead!
Blog The good news is that because the source code is open, anyone else is free to take the code and develop it further. The Open Source text editor I recommended for the Macintosh was Smultron. Both projects, IMHO, are immensely useful (why is there...
[September 25, 2009, 12:59]
MS to antitrust judge: Give us more time
News In their remedy proposal the nine states said Microsoft should be compelled to open up the source code to the Internet Explorer browser, license Office for competing operating systems and carry Java in Windows for 10 years, among other things.
[December 24, 2001, 9:27]
Open source Android opens Huawei eyes
Blog There are details unexplored here - how does the requirement for sharing source code get met, in a white label phone? Significantly, Chen said Huawei was keen on open source as a means to increase customisation in its phones, something that Windows...
[November 11, 2008, 17:00]
Citrix customers fear Windows, get Linux
News Security fears have also driven an increasing interest in Linux, in part because of its open source development model, which makes it easier to identify potential vulnerabilities, and in part because of its tightly integrated user access system...
[May 15, 2003, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News It's all about what the company thinks of open source software; the sort of thing where people write code, then give it away with a licence for others to do with it what they will -- provided only that they then give away the results.
[November 7, 1998, 6:39]
Compuware lawsuit targets IBM
News Sun brought a suit against Microsoft earlier this month, in an attempt to force it to release the underlying source code for Internet Explorer and separate Windows from other Microsoft software. In an effort to get some of its tools to market...
[March 13, 2002, 6:31]
Mono Project aims to bring .Net apps to Linux
News Aside from the actual development effort, the Mono Project tools must be built in the open-source community without infringing on Microsoft's intellectual property -- which essentially means that developers must re-engineer the tools based on the...
[October 30, 2001, 10:23]
XenSource fine-tunes Windows support
News We don't want to have somebody do to us what Oracle did to Red Hat," Crosby said, referring to Oracle's clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux built from the Linux seller's publicly available source code. Although Xen is open source software...
[April 3, 2007, 8:53]
Stallman to speak on peer-to-peer
News Free software gurus including Richard Stallman, founder of the free software foundation and Bruce Perens, author of the Open Source Definition, will speak at Cambridge University next month in a meeting to assess the impact of sharing computer...
[March 19, 2001, 14:53]
US software 'blew up Russian gas pipeline'
News Exactly one year ago, China officials announced that the country had signed a pact with Microsoft that would give them access to the highly protected Windows operating system source code. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates hinted at the time that China...
[March 1, 2004, 14:10]
Row over report praising Windows patching
Talkback Erm, it is a separate program, it isn't the kernel, if the code is properly isolated there is no way it should require a reboot! For a IS department using just Windows and thinking of going open source it might scare them enough to stay MS, for a...
[May 20, 2005, 10:37]
