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Open-source code contains 'as many flaws' as proprietary
News The open-source code seems to start at the same defect rate for early commercial code as well," Jeff Klagenberg, director of project management, said in an interview. The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the...
[July 1, 2003, 11:12]
Open-source code finder aims to prevent lawsuits
News US-based Black Duck Software on Monday released code designed to allow lawyers to resolve the intellectual property issues around open-source software. ProtextIP/development highlights potential licence issues through consulting a knowledge base of...
[October 18, 2004, 18:10]
States to Microsoft: open your source code
News Nine states and the District of Columbia want Microsoft to open its software source code should the company fail to comply with proposed restrictions on its business practices. The proposed remedy would force Microsoft to open up the source code to...
[December 10, 2001, 11:07]
Open source Java project wants code donations
News Geir Magnusson, a board member at Apache Software Foundation, said developing open source implementations of all parts of the Java platform will be difficult, but he hopes to speed things along by persuading companies and free software projects to...
[July 5, 2005, 15:00]
Open-source code maintainer filled with flaws
News Major open-source projects, including the Apache Foundation's Apache Web server and the GNOME and KDE Linux desktops, use the Concurrent Versions System to manage code under development. The security flaws underscore the advice of CVS Project...
[June 10, 2004, 9:05]
JavaVis: Open Source Code for Computer Vision Subjects
White Papers Some of them are: image format, supporting frames and bands for sequence processing, code with many algorithms available, it contains implementations of some of the most widely used algorithms in computer vision; 3D data support a visual desktop...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Study lauds open-source code quality
News The open-source implementation of TCP/IP in the Linux kernel clearly exhibits a higher code quality than commercial implementations in general-purpose operating systems," the company said in a report released last week.
[February 20, 2003, 7:42]
IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite
News Open source developers have rewritten a piece of code to avoid violating an IBM patent, raising questions over the effectiveness of IBM's policy to allow open source developers the free use of some of its patents.
[April 13, 2005, 15:05]
Coverity reveals common open-source code flaws
News Coverity, a commercial code-analysis company spun out of Stanford University, has been running its Scan project with Department of Homeland Security funding since 2006. Coverity did single out some projects for particular praise due to the...
[May 20, 2008, 17:35]
JBoss downplays open-source code 'plagiarism'
News JBoss' example, and that provided by SCO, should not be taken to mean that open-source software is more likely to include plagiarised code, he said. The LGPL used by JBoss, like other open-source licences, does have the benefit that people can take...
[November 12, 2003, 17:20]
Real's open-source code lacks MPEG-4
News RealNetworks on Wednesday released the last piece of its three-part open-source code for streaming digital media, but the server code lacks support for the industry standard MPEG-4. The Seattle-based digital media company introduced the Helix DNA...
[January 23, 2003, 7:28]
OSDL considers open-source code repository
News Open Source Development Labs, which promotes the adoption of the Linux operating system, has revealed potential plans for a repository of open-source code which could be used by the patent industry to reduce the likelihood of unoriginal software...
[October 27, 2004, 14:40]
Google Code reverses open-source licence ban
News Google has undone a ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open-source projects hosted at its Google Code site. The company had tried to discourage the increase in the number of open-source licences; having multiple licences can increase...
[August 29, 2008, 8:39]
Microsoft: We'll open up more source code
News But the idea of Shared Source came about because of customers telling us: "I am able to do some things in open source because I have access to the source code, and I would like to be able to do the same thing with your code.
[September 18, 2002, 16:27]
Embedded Android code goes open source
News Mips Technologies released the source code on Monday, two months after it first said it had ported Android to the 32-bit version of the Mips architecture. The Android operating system is a step closer to being embedded in consumer electronics...
[August 5, 2009, 14:53]
Ballmer questions open-source code security
News Click here to view the video.
[November 5, 2003, 14:35]
IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite
Talkback The linux newsgroups and open source coders have no idea how patents might or might not affect GPL or BSD-type licenses. This is highly irresponsible reporting. These guys are not doing this upon the advice of counsel.
[April 14, 2005, 8:03]
IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite
Talkback It’s going to get harder, not easier as “open source” moves into newer technology areas - e.g.rfid. Also, it is hard to write around patents that hold technology “high ground,” because the resulting open source or freeware product may be...
[April 14, 2005, 12:54]
JBoss downplays open-source code 'plagiarism'
Talkback JBoss cannot copyright ideas, and the claims of copyright infringement appear questionable based on a review of the code and a close examination of the source of JBoss' code itself. The three named exhibits include two which appear to be code JBoss...
[November 14, 2003, 22:56]
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. Ingrid, In fact, it points out how critical IBM's push for patent reform is. It just shows that reform isn't quite enough.
[April 13, 2005, 22:49]
