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Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
Blog It's all street-legal: the code was made available under a very permissive open source licence back in 2004, and may be the first of Microsoft's steps in that direction. A great post over at Scott Hanselman's blog goes into some detail of the...
[September 12, 2008, 9:11]
Microsoft talks the talk on security
News There are enough proof points to show that proprietary source code can be as secure as open source code. Who does the reviews of open source code? One element is the Secure Windows Initiative, part of last year's Microsoft security push, the so...
[July 23, 2002, 15:25]
Linux not MS' only open-source target
News But other Microsoft officials have countered Ballmer, claiming that Microsoft already makes a lot of its code available to universities and laboratories under licensing terms similar to open-source agreements.
[June 3, 1999, 8:17]
SCO makes a profit, increases revenue
News In a broader accusation, the company claims that its Unix code has been copied line for line into Linux, the open-source operating system. SCO said that there are more than 6,000 source code licensees of the Unix operating system.
[May 28, 2003, 14:21]
Car makers cruising towards Linux
News In the past, the automobile industry has developed its own software and protected its source code. This means its source code can be used and modified royalty-free. Leading automobile manufacturers in Europe are increasing plans to test-drive Linux...
[January 26, 2001, 16:25]
Virus targets programs built with Delphi
News The virus spreads the executable file of itself as well as the source code. It looks for a compiler on the infected system and re-compiles the source code, inserting its code into any programs compiled on the system.
[August 19, 2009, 12:23]
.Net developers can write for Linux using Mono
News Steve Gaines, Novell's UK technical director, said Mono will allow an enterprise's developers to write code that will work on multiple platforms -- including Linux, Unix and Mac OS -- even though they only have Windows skills.
[May 7, 2004, 17:15]
Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement
News Vista was five years in the making, so the code behind it is very complex according to Hovsepian, whereas open source is more nimble and flexible. HSBC claims it will achieve cost savings by reducing the number of Linux distributions it uses and by...
[March 14, 2007, 14:22]
FSF keeps pushing for Microsoft server protocols
News The distribution of source code in which the protocols are implemented would put the intellectual property that makes up the protocols in the public domain," said a Microsoft spokesperson on Friday. Jeremy Allison the co-founder of Samba, the open...
[November 25, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft struggles to work with open source
News The EC is concerned that open source vendors are excluded from the licence agreement, as companies are not permitted to release the source code of products created using the licence. The spokesman said that Microsoft cannot allow open source...
[April 5, 2005, 18:20]
Linux scrubs up for medical role
News BMS Bayer developed its own user interface library, ParaGUI, on top of the existing SDL graphics code -- more commonly used for multimedia and gaming. Written in C++ and Python, ParaGUI runs on Windows, Linux, BeOS, MacOS and others; it's licensed...
[June 13, 2002, 15:37]
Microsoft's licensing check rounded again
News By changing a setting in a Microsoft validation tool called "GenuineCheck.exe", it's possible to generate a code that will validate the Windows software on a machine as genuine even if it is unlicensed, according to a Web site publicised on...
[August 8, 2005, 9:35]
Google releases Web 2.0 security tool
News Ratproxy currently supports Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows, and is available from Google Code. Last month, Google said it would terminate support for Browser Sync, and this week the company open sourced the code for the product's client...
[July 11, 2008, 13:15]
New Trojan appears to attack VeriSign
News Paul Ducklin, head of technology, Sophos Asia-Pacific, said the Trojan, dubbed Qhost1, seduces the user into going to a Web site that exploits a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer and inserts malicious code onto the victim's personal...
[October 2, 2003, 14:50]
Linux security under spotlight
News This Linux axiom points to the fact that when a bug becomes an issue, many people have the source code, and it can be quickly resolved without the help of a vendor. Perhaps the most important advantage that open source software can provide is that...
[December 3, 2002, 11:21]
Linux a picture of health at CeBIT
News One developer claimed Debian was a better choice for mission-critical applications than rival commercial distributions, as the lack of commercial pressures meant for better code. Some users said were predictably passionate about running their...
[March 11, 2005, 17:55]
Limitations take the shine off open Sun
Leader Five million lines of code -- the heart of one of the most mature and highly specified operating systems around -- are to be released into the open. In particular, the Community Development and Distribution License under which the software is...
[June 14, 2005, 15:00]
Key Linux group faces split
News Open-source advocates often boast of the advantages of the collaborative programming model, in which the source code underlying a particular program may be freely shared and changed. But Packard abused his privileges as one of the handful of people...
[March 21, 2003, 7:58]
Sun aiming StarOffice at mainstream
News Sun released the underlying source code at OpenOffice, enabling others to augment the software through the open-source process. Outside of the US -- in China, India, Brazil, the UK -- they are starting to really deploy StarOffice (because of the...
[March 28, 2002, 9:55]
Industry nervous, not afraid of SCO suit
News The research company also recommended IT managers seek advice from their legal departments and perform "due diligence" on Linux or other open-source code by exploring its source and integrity. One thing that troubles me is the instant alliance with...
[May 27, 2003, 11:24]
