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Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope'
Talkback Just counting bugs per line is one thing, Open Source is a clear winner there. Discussing "quality" without defining what it is is quite a useless exercise. If code usability is considered, proprietary code comes out a lot better.
[April 25, 2005, 12:49]
News Burst: Open source evolution ahead, says report
News Open source ideas will change the face of the software industry by the year 2004, according to new research published by research company Forrester. Forrester predicts software companies will be forced to shift from proprietary business models to...
[August 16, 2000, 10:46]
Open-source cloud platform goes commercial
Blog Eucalyptus, an open-source project aimed at making it possible to set up Amazon Web Services-compatible private cloud infrastructures, has established itself as a private company, Eucalyptus Systems. The idea behind the company is support the open...
[April 29, 2009, 13:15]
Open-source audio wins MP3 player support
News Open-source audio technology Ogg Vorbis will get its first official entrée into a commercial portable MP3 player next month. The device, which will also support connections with Linux-based computers, may be the most open-source-friendly MP3 player...
[February 25, 2003, 9:59]
Open-source bug-hunting effort to grow
News A year after its original launch, a US government-backed project that scans open-source code for flaws is expanding. The effort, supported by a research contract from the US Department of Homeland Security, is now scanning code of 150 open-source...
[March 28, 2007, 9:01]
Open source Java coming this year
Talkback That must make Sun a .drum roll .open source company! Oh great! Yawn, yawn, nod, nod.
[October 24, 2006, 10:46]
Open source awareness growing in Scotland
Talkback There's a difference between open source and open standards/formats. Olav, learn to read. An you're wrong again: MS's default file format for Office 12 is XML-based. For a researcher, you don't do a lot of research.
[August 26, 2005, 17:22]
Open source: New target of malware?
News The recent OpenOffice worm may be a sign that malware writers are starting to target the increasingly popular open-source software, industry experts say. In an interview, Wilvin Chee, research director of IDC's Asia-Pacific software research group...
[June 13, 2007, 16:46]
Open source developers step up anti-patent campaign
News Developers are using shock tactics to persuade the open source community to get involved in the campaign against software patents. Over the last month various open source projects have replaced their Web home page with one that outlines the risk...
[April 14, 2005, 11:55]
JavaVis: Open Source Code for Computer Vision Subjects
White Papers This paper presents the open source project JavaVis, oriented to Computer Vision teaching. It consists of a framework with several features that make it useful for that purpose. Some of them are: image format, supporting frames and bands for...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Open source is another solution
Talkback Everyone would not wanna use only open source software, there are still coexist with open source and close source in the future.right, u can freely use other software's code, but u need claims i use your code via putting a note in your code.if you...
[November 15, 2006, 5:27]
Open source: KDE hits back at GNOME
News When the Gnome Foundation was announced, the KDE Project issued a statement claiming the existence of the new group would have no effect on the popularity of the KDE open-source desktop. But it seems the powers behind KDE (K Desktop Environment...
[September 11, 2000, 8:22]
Open source security push gets $20m
News Open source security vendor Sourcefire has secured $20m (£10.6m) in funding, the company announced on Friday. Sourcefire is best known for its popular Snort open source IPS product. The network intrusion prevention (IPS) vendor will use the funds...
[June 2, 2006, 17:15]
Open-source programmer rebuts charge
News A programmer has rebutted an accusation that he contributed proprietary software to an open-source project called Mambo, while his accuser has moderated his legal threats. Programmer Emir Sakic's rebuttal, posted Saturday, said the code he wrote...
[September 21, 2004, 8:35]
Trend Micro: open source is more secure
News Antivirus vendor Trend Micro is claiming that open source software is inherently more secure than proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows. Trend claimed that one reason open source software has fewer security issues is the variety of Linux...
[June 13, 2006, 15:40]
Open source angst: Fear of forking
News Among some open source developers, forking equals the end of the code-development tree's common roots. The open source community has tried to avoid the fate of Unix, which lost much of its strength when commercial vendors tried to differentiate...
[October 17, 2000, 8:12]
"Infectious" Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance?
White Papers Some free or open source software infects other software with its licensing terms. Popular open source software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, uses a license with this feature. This paper assesses the efficacy of broad infectious...
[January 26, 2009, 0:18]
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
News Microsoft has helped develop an open-source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible for the 160 million people worldwide with impaired vision.
[May 14, 2008, 8:58]
Open source firms 'to be consumed by wave of consolidation'
News A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted Wednesday. But those rivals are too immature to make it, said...
[February 16, 2006, 9:05]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback This is an excellent opportunity for open source, and should worry microsoft. If schools adopt the use of open source software, then students will leave schools with skills, not in ms office, but openoffice or staroffice.
[May 9, 2005, 12:33]
