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Open source community wooed by Microsoft
Talkback I don't know how many of the "open source community" were at the OSBC conference, but while many of the speakers were very good, there were a number there who don't really have any position to speak on free software.
[June 29, 2006, 15:59]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
News Microsoft is redoubling its efforts to persuade business leaders that it is committed to working more closely with the open source community. But Taylor also thinks Microsoft has a long way to go to gain the trust of the open source community.
[June 29, 2006, 12:55]
Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move
News As Microsoft takes this significant step forward into the interconnected world of the future, we aspire to doing so with members of the open-source community by our side now and for the long haul," said Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager of...
[February 22, 2008, 12:42]
Open source community retaliates
News The open-source community has reacted with anger to last week's claims from Microsoft representatives that open source software was too insecure for it take seriously. But Clifford is keen to point out that open source is a tried, tested and...
[December 6, 1999, 11:25]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
Talkback This is why the majority of the open-source community is ignoring MS. Don't think I'm stupid MS, I know your sudden change of heart is a renewed initiative to gun after open-source.It stands in your way.It does not take a rocket scientist to figure...
[June 29, 2006, 23:50]
Banks 'should give back to open source community'
Talkback This is good for the open-source community as bank will be looking for people with the relevant skills and not just MS-certified engineers. If banks use more open-source infrastructure software and more applications are developed on it, then open...
[April 26, 2006, 15:03]
Open-source community site goes open source
News Ohloh, a community site for open-source developers, is making its tools open source, including the website itself. We want to make sure we have a solid process in place so that the development community can easily access and contribute to Ohcount...
[January 18, 2008, 16:07]
Evaluating Software Engineering Processes in Commercial and Community Open Source Projects
White Papers This paper describe a current study for obtaining information about management of commercial and community open source projects. Leaders of more than 75 open source projects have been interviewed and surveyed.
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
BT joins enterprise open-source community
News BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation. Open source is vital to BT's transformation and the wider software community at large," said Jeremy Ruston, BT's open-source innovation chief, on...
[July 24, 2008, 11:52]
Who is the open source community?
News Who is the open-source community, anyway? Still, this groundbreaking study does an admirable job of taking the first objective look at the open-source community. There are also more open-source developers by the day and the community's rate of work...
[October 29, 1999, 15:59]
Attacks puzzle open-source community
News A recent spate of attacks on Macromedia Flash developer community Web sites has exposed a potential security threat in a common open-source mailing list application. Evidence that would link the attacks or the groups behind them is yet to emerge...
[February 13, 2004, 9:50]
New boost for open-source community
News It's difficult to predict traction and uptake, but the open-source community is really adding functionality at an accelerating pace," O'Grady said. The Agila project will begin as an "incubator" at Apache, during which time Apache will assess the...
[October 1, 2004, 9:10]
Banks 'should give back to open source community'
News Major open source vendors on Monday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open source community. In a separate talk at the conference, Larry Ryan, the director of worldwide financial services at HP, made a similar comment on...
[April 26, 2006, 9:15]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
Talkback Those are not open-source values. Microsoft has only one god, only one value: exploit, exploit, exploit. Other human beings exist for only one reason: to be used. Lie down with MS, and don't expect not to wake up in an .interesting condition.
[June 30, 2006, 7:16]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
Talkback "Microsoft was anti-open source. Why would anyone think that? Just because they funded SCO, said Linux was illegal because it was free. Because they don't want the competition from an OS that works. If you can't trust M$, then who can you trust?
[June 29, 2006, 16:56]
Attacks puzzle open-source community
Talkback Typical. If this happened to a site running Microsoft products it would be headline news. For non-microsoft products it is simply a blip.
[February 16, 2004, 20:32]
Banks 'should give back to open source community'
Talkback Capitalists giving something away. Pull the other one; it's got bells on it.
[April 26, 2006, 20:12]
Attacks puzzle open-source community
Talkback That is because Windows has such a bad rap sheet that it deserves everything it gets. Other OS's on the other hand are built with security in mind, not as an after thought like Microsoft's security policy ( Too Little, Too Late )
[February 20, 2004, 11:51]
Taking sides in the open source community
Talkback DRM does not protect privacy. Privacy is obtained via encryption. The GPLv3 has absolutely no problem with software that encrypts personal data. The GPLv3 is all about restoring rights to the public, and protecting that restoration.
[October 12, 2006, 9:17]
Taking sides in the open source community
Talkback Microsoft and Jonathan Zuck may hope that a wedge can splinter the developers of free software / open source software, but actually this shouting is nothing new in the community. We do this all the time, and because it's done in public, the...
[October 12, 2006, 12:36]
