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'Critical' Open Source Initiative To Crack Public Sector
News A UK government-funded initiative aims to accelerate the use of open source software within the public sector, through various activities including the creation of a government-specific code repository and a directory of open source providers.
[April 5, 2005, 17:10]
Sun Submits Software Licence To Open Source Initiative
News Open Source Initiative president Eric Raymond declined to comment yet on whether the licence meets those criteria. On Wednesday evening, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned, Sun submitted a description of its Common Development and...
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
'Critical' Open Source Initiative To Crack Public Sector
Talkback Anonymous posters criticising article? How brave! Not only that, but you're spectacularly incorrect. How amusing! Smells like FUD - I just hope you're being well paid to spread disinformation about the most significant UK Public Sector breakthrough...
[April 6, 2005, 17:13]
'Critical' Open Source Initiative To Crack Public Sector
Talkback OK, so the whole article's a Press Release, and the headline's a quote, with the quotes in the wrong place. ZD, don't you realise that your already-beleagured reputation suffers with this kind of nonsense?
[April 5, 2005, 18:20]
'Critical' Open Source Initiative To Crack Public Sector
Talkback The article is not from a press release - if you read paragraph 4 of the article you will see that the Open Source Academy is expected to be announced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister later this month.
[April 6, 2005, 10:07]
'Critical' Open Source Initiative To Crack Public Sector
Talkback AFAIK there's a simple reason for the ODPM not commenting on this story yet - with the UK election called and parliament dissolved no major publicity type announcements are allowed for the next month - the "purdah" period.
[April 8, 2005, 13:23]
Open Source 'split By Digital Divide'
Talkback So to formulate an opinion of their own or take initiative, think idependently is missing. Before i forget, after 20 internet one still has to give comment in a box the size of a rubic cube.i can't open a webpage without reading about self declared...
[July 17, 2006, 0:40]
UC Berkeley Relies On Java Technology And Open Source Software To Advance Its Core Mission
White Papers These tools are part of e-Berkeley, an initiative sponsored by the Chancellor's office to advance web-enabled applications that make processes like registering for classes, printing course descriptions, buying books, even posting grades, much more...
[July 29, 2004, 0:00]
Microsoft Does Open Source U-turn
News Microsoft customers say the software giant has already made significant changes, such as sharing source code with large customers and launching a "trustworthy computing" initiative to button-up troublesome security holes in its software.
[October 14, 2002, 15:27]
Open Source Fans Try To Outflank .Net
News Even as Microsoft touts the open availability of the underpinnings of its .Net initiative, open source advocates are working to make sure .Net isn't a Microsoft-only technology But open source advocates don't trust Microsoft, citing its modified...
[July 5, 2001, 12:29]
Open-source Guru Finds Mac OS X Too Restrictive
News Eric Raymond, the co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, told ZDNet UK that he, for one, finds Apple's "public source" licence too restrictive. Apple may be courting open-source developers with its Unix-based Mac OS X, but it doesn't have all...
[March 26, 2002, 16:49]
Open-source Advocate Leaves HP
News Perens, a Linux developer, co-founded the Open Source Initiative, founded the group Software in the Public Interest and helped develop the Debian version of Linux. Open-source advocate Bruce Perens has left Hewlett-Packard, after spending two years...
[September 9, 2002, 12:36]
Open Source PCs Take A Passage To India
News This move follows an Indian government initiative to distribute free CDs containing localised versions of popular open source desktop applications. The Indian government has struck a deal with a number of PC vendors to pre-install open source...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
Open-source Guru Claims Proof Of MS-SCO Link
News It was published on Wednesday on the Web site of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a non-profit group that promotes open-source software. An open-source group has published a memo leaked from within SCO Group that appears to point to a much more...
[March 4, 2004, 16:30]
Open Source 'split By Digital Divide'
News Scott McNeil, the general manager of the open computing initiative at UNU's International Institute for Software Technology, speaking at a UNU conference on free software in New York on Thursday, said that as few developers in open source projects...
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Open Source Specialists Offered Tech Support Bounty
News Steven Grandchamp, the chief executive of OpenLogic, claimed the initiative will help companies that want to get support for multiple open source products from one provider. OpenLogic, an open source software and services provider, has launched a...
[May 9, 2006, 11:10]
Open Source Community Wooed By Microsoft
News Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative covers a range of programmes. Microsoft is redoubling its efforts to persuade business leaders that it is committed to working more closely with the open source community.
[June 29, 2006, 12:55]
Open-source Code Finder Aims To Prevent Lawsuits
News Levin claims that the product has information on more than 225 licences -- including the 50 licences listed by the Open Source Initiative. US-based Black Duck Software on Monday released code designed to allow lawyers to resolve the intellectual...
[October 18, 2004, 18:10]
Open Source Projects: Why It Pays To Keep Quiet
News He claims that almost every partner in the Open Source Academy, a UK government initiative to accelerate the adoption of open source software in the public sector, has been approached by Microsoft. Large companies and analysts that work with open...
[November 25, 2005, 14:15]
Microsoft: Open Source's Best Friend?
News But the initiative has drawn flak from some quarters in the open source community, judging from the responses posted on Port 25 blogs. Microsoft's love-hate relationship with open source software can be epitomised by recent efforts to enhance...
[May 17, 2006, 11:00]
