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Wind River joins open-source groups
News Wind River Systems, an operating system specialist that decided to embrace Linux rather than fight it, plans to announce Monday it has joined two prominent open-source groups. The company joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which...
[December 1, 2003, 10:45]
Open source groups ally to target schools
Talkback Support is not as important with open-source software because it just works and keeps on working even with workload changes. Software: Less of a security issue due to true priviledge separation which Microsoft's "user" accounts can't compete with...
[May 5, 2005, 19:07]
Open source groups ally to target schools
Talkback This is like re inventing betamax
[May 16, 2005, 1:42]
Open source groups to merge
Blog Two open source consortia have announced they are to join forces. According to a press statement on Thursday, the two organisations will provide a "global platform for supporting research, development, distribution, and adoption of open source...
[October 1, 2009, 17:19]
Open source groups ally to target schools
News UK educationists have partnered with the Open Source Consortium (OSC) in a bid to push free and open source software into schools. As a result of the affiliation, Schoolforge-UK will head the Education Working Group of the OSC, a European...
[May 5, 2005, 12:50]
Open source scores in higher education
Talkback Articles like this, based on "facts" provided by vested interest groups do nothing to help the broader community understand what is actually happening in the market place. Vested interest groups almost always ask questions that have an answer that...
[August 9, 2006, 4:26]
Open source needs sex education
Talkback First, and it is a constant in these kind of articles, it is postulated that woman are 'excluded' of a specific and narrow sub-group of the general population, on the sole ground that they represente x% of that sub-groups and that x
[August 2, 2006, 4:21]
Microsoft keeps its open source enemies close
Talkback It is highly unlikely to refer to anyone who reads or posts on these groups Linux and similar simple do not aim for these users basically as you arent going to find many non-computer geeks who are prepared to sit around in focus groups discussing...
[July 4, 2005, 22:46]
IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite
Talkback Actually, I don't think this event raises any question about the effectiveness of IBM open-sourcing patents. Even when the groups involved (like IBM and PostgreSQL) have the best intentions in the world, software patents will continue to inhibit...
[April 13, 2005, 22:49]
The problems with open source
Talkback While OpenOffice.org itself does not offer paid support, there are a number of groups and individuals who do offer such support, and those are listed on the OpenOffice.org website. I totally agree with this article, when it comes to corporate users.
[August 9, 2005, 2:10]
US Government to fund open source bug hunt
News The US Department of Homeland Security is extending the scope of its protection to open source software. Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24m (£702,000) in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
Open source 'will solve RFID's image problem'
News The public image of RFID as a secretive tool of big business and government could improve if open source groups get involved in developing RFID standards, according to one UK charity. Dr Humberto Moran, chief executive of Open Source Innovation, a...
[November 7, 2005, 17:10]
Open-source clan clashes with Sun
News But the company acknowledged it needs to improve its work with open-source groups, saying the task would be addressed "within the next few weeks. A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source...
[December 4, 2002, 13:44]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
Talkback The most an open source developer is likely to lose is time. The comparison understates the huge gift these people and other similar groups like cave rescue and mountain rescue provide to society, particularly the UK where the government has yet to...
[November 30, 2004, 14:09]
Open source needs sex education
Leader The acceptance of such ideas can only be enhanced by the establishment of beachheads of excellence; high-status groups producing necessary contributions that help open source not only meet the standards of proprietary software but exceed them.
[August 1, 2006, 14:05]
Open source's usability challenge
Leader Any glance at open-source discussion groups will show just how far out of mind such considerations stand. That should make usability supremely challenging for open-source projects, especially ones of the scale and complexity of Ubuntu.
[September 11, 2008, 17:25]
Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'
News Proponents of open-source and proprietary software are exchanging blows "on the wrong battleground" said Gartner Research vice president Andrea Di Maio today. Di Maio argued that while open-source disciples have arranged themselves on a front...
[November 13, 2003, 8:35]
US Report: Open Source gathering steam
News Marshall said groups such as Red Hat, which do offer support for Linux or other open-source projects, show "there is a momentum" for the methodology. Increasingly, companies are viewing open source code releases as a cheap and easy way to enlist...
[December 8, 1998, 10:02]
Open source battle heats up over Oregon bill
News Lined up behind the measure at last week's hearing were Linux user groups and developers, along with school district representatives, some who testified that they were able to save so much money using open-source software that they could afford to...
[April 10, 2003, 7:52]
Re: The big con - open source
Talkback True, except that they are now developing open source using open source style development practices; mass code inspection, vast test groups, development tools produced using the same methods. : Open source is just a step up from shareware which...
[January 7, 2009, 7:54]
