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Open source plan could aid torture victims
News Probably the most important benefit for open source here is the transparency," Fruchterman said. In a few months, Fruchterman plans to put a call out for open source developers to help create the software, which is scheduled to be released in beta...
[April 10, 2001, 8:31]
Dyson: Open ICANN meeting worked
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit manager of the Internet's domain name addressing system, agreed last month to open the session to the public even though several board members opposed the move.
[August 27, 1999, 8:56]
Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'
Talkback One would preferr if Di Maio would speak about how Open Source application developers will be guaranteed protectection from the monopolistic practices of a company that is known to implement strategies that, on a software level, guarantee its...
[November 13, 2003, 10:14]
Open source versus free software debate rages
News I know that the open source movement has no clue about marketing, they underestimate it. Love was defending himself and the open source movement against reproaches by Richard Stallman, the chairman of the Free Software Foundation.
[June 25, 2001, 15:05]
Open source of contention - SSH!
News In the end, both sides could lose if access to an important component of Internet security and the good will toward SSH Communications become casualties, say open source and intellectual property experts.
[February 26, 2001, 14:22]
Open source communism
Talkback ZDNet UK is not claiming that open source equals communism - we will leave that kind of clumsy comparison to Darl McBride and Bill Gates. Whether the New Tories are simply appropriating open source values, in the same way they have with the...
[March 8, 2007, 15:12]
Open Terminal Here
Downloads When clicked on in the toolbar of a Finder directory window, this script will open up a new terminal session in that directory. Very useful if you're often switching between manipulating files and directories graphically and with the command...
[February 5, 2007, 7:00]
Open Source: not 'if', but 'what'
Leader One theme that's becoming increasingly apparent -- and which was reinforced yet again at the LinuxWorld expo in London this week -- is that the open-source model is steadily climbing its way up the software stack.
[October 7, 2004, 14:30]
IDC: Open OLPC won't tempt big PC makers
News Whitebox vendors in the Asia-Pacific region may back the decision by One Laptop per Child to open up its design, according to research analyst IDC. Earlier this month, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte announced the organisation's intention to open...
[March 2, 2009, 9:02]
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]
Open-Source-on-Windows ISV Gains Microsoft Support, Sees Sales Soar 200 Percent
White Papers Aras Innovator enterprise open source solutions address strategic business initiatives. The company wanted componentized solutions based on the Microsoft .NET Framework instead of large, monolithic J2EE systems that were expensive and difficult to...
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
Open System Interconnection (OSI) Protocols
White Papers The Open System Interconnection (OSI) protocol suite is comprised of numerous standard protocols that are based on the OSI reference model.The OSI specifications were conceived and implemented by two international standards organizations: the...
[August 16, 2003, 1:31]
Open-Xchange
Downloads Open-Xchange ("OX") is a groupware from Netline licenced under GPL. Open-Xchange 0.7.5 and startup items It is the community edition of Novell/SuSE Linux Openexchange ("SLOX"). This groupware has the following functions: portal: the first user...
[December 6, 2004, 6:00]
Open source 'pressuring Microsoft pricing'
News Enterprises are able to negotiate increasingly better licensing deals with Microsoft as the company fights off competition from Linux and other open-source software, according to software vendors and industry analysts.
[February 18, 2004, 16:50]
Open-source graphics card available for pre-order
News After four years of development, the Open Graphics Project last week made available for pre-order its first open-source graphics card. The Open Graphics Project (OGP) and its commercial sponsor, Traversal Technology, aim to bring to market a...
[May 27, 2008, 16:57]
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 he predicts any open source alternative will be slow to catch on.
[July 5, 2001, 12:29]
Open standards 'essential to Europe's IT future'
News A high ranking French government official has called for open standards for software to be adopted by all European countries. Carayon recommended that both the French Government and European member states should adopt open standards for data...
[October 6, 2006, 14:35]
Business Objects: Open source a distant threat
Talkback Watch your backside pal the next thing you know Open Source will be biting a lump out of it and the we can all LOL saying we told you so so many companys have said the self same thing and look at them now they almost invariabley end up...
[January 19, 2005, 0:08]
Microsoft lawyer: Open-source war is over
News Microsoft thinks the battle between open-source and proprietary software is as good as over. To bolster his claim, Horacio Gutierrez noted Microsoft is releasing plenty of software as open source, while open-source companies like Red Hat often...
[October 20, 2008, 11:49]
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]
