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Open source consortium wins EC funding
News A European Commission-funded consortium has raised over three million Euros to fund a project testing the quality of open source software. The consortium is made up from research organisations, consultants and those undertaking open source projects.
[October 23, 2006, 17:10]
Open source consortium wins EC funding
Talkback This is certainly a project that is well outside the funding remit of the EC. To use taxpayers cash to "subsidise" this shows just how little restraint there is on creeping expansion by the beaurocrats into areas that are not there business.
[October 23, 2006, 21:03]
Open source consortium wins EC funding
Talkback To me this looks like the EC focusing on substantiating the credibility of open source source thereby furthering its use in business, academia and government. In the absence of putative licensing costs, the increased use of open source source...
[October 24, 2006, 8:26]
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
News The tool was developed in an open-source project with Sonata software and the Digital Accessible Information System (Daisy) consortium. Microsoft has helped develop an open-source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format...
[May 14, 2008, 8:58]
Open-source Eclipse unveils Ajax projects
News The Eclipse Foundation, an open-source consortium, on Tuesday detailed three projects designed to make Ajax-style web development easier. Meanwhile, the NetBeans project, which is the primary open-source rival to Eclipse, on Monday announced that...
[March 8, 2007, 8:41]
Red Hat: Open source driven by anti-US sentiment
News I'm reluctant to agree with that statement," said Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium, which promotes the use of open-source software in the public sector in the UK. Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open...
[March 26, 2008, 15:27]
MPs: Open source faces exclusion in schools
News The group of MPs has won support from the Open Schools Alliance, a group of organisations which includes the Open Source Consortium, SchoolForge, FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) and the UKUUG (UK Unix and Open Systems User...
[November 27, 2006, 13:37]
Gartner: Open source will quietly take over
News Gartner has woefully underestimated the penetration of open source," said Mark Taylor, president of promotion group the Open Source Consortium. In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT...
[April 4, 2008, 14:53]
Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift
News Linux absolutely needs more usability," said Mark Taylor, founder of the Open Source Consortium. Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and...
[September 11, 2008, 16:23]
Open-source legal body sues over GPL violation
News The SFLC initially was funded by the Open Source Development Labs — a consortium now called the Linux Foundation — and also is sponsored by Linux open-source allies including IBM, HP and Red Hat. A legal team enforcing the most widely used licence...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
Open source 'will solve RFID's image problem'
News The OSI recently formed a consortium of large organisations to create EPCglobal compliant open source software for commercial environments — the group hopes to release the software in the next two years.
[November 7, 2005, 17:10]
Open source gurus issue patent warning
News Stuart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs Linux consortium, said he believes others will follow IBM's move. Two open source leaders joined Linux founder Linus Torvalds in disparaging software patents Tuesday, the newest...
[February 2, 2005, 8:10]
Open-source MP3 competitor goes mobile with Zaurus
News MP3, or MPEG Audio Layer 3, has become the de facto standard for trading audio files over the Internet because of the small size and high quality of its files, but the format is controlled by the Fraunhofer Group and other members of the MPEG...
[April 12, 2002, 17:08]
Open-source .Net takes shape
News Microsoft has submitted its C# language and other run-time software to the ECMA and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards bodies. Builders of the Mono open-source development project released an update on Tuesday that will let programmers...
[December 13, 2002, 7:49]
Open source authentication scheme gets full marks
News We are recommending that all Regional Broadband Consortium and Local Education Authorities use this system for school online resource authentication and authorisation. Schools should implement an open source authentication system to give parents...
[October 3, 2005, 17:05]
Open-source rival to MP3 released
News However, the Fraunhofer Institute and other members of the MPEG Consortium control the format, meaning software makers must pay the group royalties for each encoder distributed. Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their...
[July 22, 2002, 9:25]
Study: Open, closed source equally secure
News Oddly, Anderson used the latter third of the paper to launch into a criticism of the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance, a security consortium started by Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer and IBM in October 1999.
[June 21, 2002, 8:57]
Coalition seeks US gov't support for open source
News Several open-source software companies and many other organisations have formed a consortium called Open Source for America to persuade the US government to use more of the collaboratively developed software, to participate in its development, and...
[July 23, 2009, 17:06]
Wind River joins open-source groups
News The company joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which develops and promotes Linux, and the Eclipse Consortium, an open-source project launched by IBM to develop better programming tools. Wind River Systems, an operating system...
[December 1, 2003, 10:45]
Row erupts over schools open-source project
News Today, Friday 13th, Becta's open-source posturing is exposed as a sham, empty spin covering 'business as usual' political sleaze," wrote Mark Taylor, who, in addition to his role as chief executive of Sirius, is the president of the Open Source...
[June 16, 2008, 10:11]
