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Hadoop is ready for the enterprise, says Apache

...The Apache Software Foundation has released the first production version of Hadoop, the scalable, distributed... Read more

5 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Microsoft to allow Eclipse, Mozilla licences for WP7 apps

...suitable to fit with the Marketplace APA," he said. Notable shiftHowever, Free Software Foundation Europe chief Karsten Gerloff said on Wednesday that the list of... Read more

9 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Software groups urge probe of Novell patent transfer

...The Open Software Initiative and the Free Software Foundation on Wednesday released a joint statement that urges the US Department... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Apache foundation threatens to quit Java steering group

...The Apache Software Foundation has threatened to pull out of the Java Community Process because... Read more

11 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Citrix puts weight behind OpenStack rival CloudStack

...develop a commercial version of the CloudStack distribution submitted to the Apache Software Foundation, the company said on Tuesday. It gained the CloudStack software when... Read more

3 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs'

...maturity and market support". However, open-source advocates such as the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) complained that the EIFv2, compared with the first version... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Google Wave finds home in Apache Incubator

...project, a preliminary step to becoming part of the open-source Apache Software Foundation's catalogue. Google Wave has been added to the Apache Incubator... Read more

8 December, 2010 by Luke Hopewell

OpenOffice supporters form LibreOffice offshoot

...The Document Foundation has a number of key supporters, including the Free Software Foundation, Canonical, Collabora, the Gnome Foundation, the OSI, OASIS and members of... Read more

28 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

Ubuntu 'not necessarily competing' with Windows 7

...we've created this environment." Karsten Gerloff, the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, was on the same panel as Holt, and said he... Read more

23 September, 2010 by David Meyer
Review on Motivation for Selection of Open Source Software License: An Economic and Social Perspective

Review on Motivation for Selection of Open Source Software License: An Economic and Social Perspective

...Stallman become pioneer of open source license, because it built a free software foundation, which legalized the above mentioned statement by introduced GNU GPL license... Read more

30 September, 2011

Apache: OpenOffice.org is not at risk

The OpenOffice software project is "not at risk", the Apache Software Foundation has said, after some members of OpenOffice.org publicly called for... Read more

17 October, 2011

Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation

...has ceded control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project, it announced on Wednesday. OpenOffice.org is the most... Read more

1 June, 2011

Apache foundation quits 'proprietary' Java process

...The Apache Software Foundation has resigned from the Java steering group, claiming that the widely... Read more

10 December, 2010 by David Meyer

Lobbyists clash over open standards in Europe

The Free Software Foundation Europe has launched a strong defence of open standards, after the... Read more

18 October, 2010

Internet needs no 'digital handcuffs', says Kroes

...talked of a pair of handcuffs sent to her by the Free Software Foundation lobby group. "Let me show you, these handcuffs are not closed... Read more

19 April, 2012

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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