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Governments Get Access To Office Source Code
News Microsoft is set to add Office to its programme that allows governments to view source code for key applications. Matusow said it's too early to say whether Office would be included in the broader Shared Source effort, where source code access is...
[September 20, 2004, 8:20]
UK Government Joins Office Source-code Scheme
News The UK government is at the forefront of a Microsoft scheme allowing access to the Office 2003 source code. Under the latest extension of the programme, Microsoft is allowing governments access to the source code of its main desktop product, Office...
[September 20, 2004, 12:45]
Sun Sets Up Open Source Office
News Sun Microsystems on Wednesday night launched an office dedicated to open source matters, signalling a new elevation of the collaborative programming philosophy within the company. Simon Phipps, already Sun's open source officer, will lead the Open...
[August 19, 2005, 11:15]
Microsoft May Open Office Door
News Microsoft is considering an expansion of a programme that would allow companies to see the source code underlying its Office software and other applications. The company's Shared Source Initiative, launched nearly three years ago, allows business...
[January 19, 2004, 10:00]
OpenOffice Patches Three Security Holes
News StarOffice and StarSuite are Sun's commercial office software offerings, based on the same code as the OpenOffice suite. OpenOffice.org has released a patch for three security vulnerabilities in its popular open source office suite.
[July 4, 2006, 13:35]
Microsoft Plans OpenDocument Translator
News The software giant on Thursday is expected to launch the Open XML Translator project on SourceForge.net, a popular site for hosting code-sharing projects that use the BSD open source licence. Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open source...
[July 6, 2006, 10:15]
Hackers Burgle Microsoft Source Code
News Software giant Microsoft said hackers had broken into the company's computers, in what a spokesman called "a deplorable act of industrial espionage", and were believed to have gained access to the source code of such software as Windows operating...
[October 27, 2000, 9:35]
Free Office Suite Coming To The Mac
News However, it has taken slightly more than a year for developers to reach the present stage -- they began in April 2001, when Sun released the StarOffice code under an open-source licence. Open-source software lets developers freely modify the...
[May 8, 2002, 14:47]
Sun: Open Source For The Masses
News Today, Friday the 13th -- a target fatalistically selected by Sun back in July and achieved on time -- Sun placed all nine million lines of StarOffice 6 alpha code into open source. As with just about every commercially backed open source project...
[October 13, 2000, 12:25]
Windows Code Seller Pleads Guilty
News William P Genovese Jr, 28, of Meriden, Connecticut, entered his plea on Monday in a Manhattan federal court to charges that he unlawfully sold and attempted to sell portions of Microsoft's source code for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, according...
[August 31, 2005, 9:55]
Microsoft To Release ODF Translator For Word
News A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Friday to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Gnome Throws Down The Gauntlet
News Thirteen open source vendors and organisations launch their plan for an alternative to the Windows/Office desktop monopoly. Gnome Office, the open source components of StarOffice contributed by Sun Microsystems
[August 16, 2000, 9:01]
IBM Leads US Patent Pack
News In another effort, the OSDL is hosting a Web site called the Open Source Software as Prior Art project, which will be designed as a way to search through existing open source code. Sutor said he expects that open source developers will search the...
[January 10, 2006, 8:30]
Lotus Founder Preps Open Source Outlook Alternative
News He hopes that his nonprofit organisation -- the San Francisco-based Open Source Application Foundation (OSAF), which he founded last year -- will eventually raise funds by licensing its code base to companies seeking to build commercial...
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Free Office Suite Reaches Milestone Release
News It is the result of 18 months of collaboration between Sun developers and more than 10,000 volunteer developers, which began when Sun donated the StarOffice code to the open-source or "free software" community.
[May 2, 2002, 13:08]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback You probably aren't even aware of the vast amount of software available to run on Linux open source code) that will cross platform with all of your Office and Windows software, cost nothing to download, and can be changed to be what YOU want it to...
[November 12, 2005, 16:49]
Photos: Inside The Free Software Foundation
News The key difference is that, if tomorrow Microsoft made its software work for a change, offered it for free and gave you access to the source code, would these people stop supporting free software? This magazine included listings of computer...
[April 13, 2006, 16:10]
Open-source Efforts Derailed By 'loud Minority'
News A better response to Gibson's dilemma, he said, would be to promote open source as "the best process we have for creating code in a transparent and scientific environment that benefits from incredible exposure".
[March 20, 2008, 9:45]
Sun Shines On Linux Desktop
News By taking actions such as releasing the source code for its StarOffice software, a Microsoft Office competitor, Sun has been trying to curry favour with the open-source community, a vast, loosely organised group of programmers who collaboratively...
[January 23, 2003, 7:44]
Sun To Drop Free StarOffice Downloads
News Sun showed its intent to make StarOffice into a serious competitor for Microsoft Office when it first began giving away StarOffice 5.2 and then, in 2000, donated the StarOffice 5.2 source code to open-source developers.
[May 27, 2002, 13:33]
