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Open source to industry: It's payback time
News Leading open source advocates will this summer meet some of the biggest software companies that have built up businesses on the back of open source software, to negotiate terms for the companies to give something back to the community.
[April 9, 2001, 7:40]
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 sourcing your proprietary app: an act of deperation?
Blog Comment Both Java, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, are now open source successes for the companies involved and weren't an act of desperation - they were fine before they were released, and the companies are still doing just fine - in fact Sun is doing so well...
[January 28, 2007, 15:11]
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-Xchange has a community version as well..
Talkback This article was referring to the free trial of the commercial version of Open-Xchange. The community version can be downloaded for free at www.open-xchange.org. The commercial version offers additional administrative & maintenance tools, a...
[November 7, 2006, 16:25]
Open source Skype? Partly.
Blog Skype has confirmed it is developing an open source client for Linux. However, it seems that only the user interface portions of the client will be open source, and the library for the communication protocols will be a binary-only distribution.
[November 3, 2009, 7:55]
Open source bad for business?
Talkback You seem to be saying that open source is somehow going to undermine the UK economy? I am not sure what evidence you're basing that on but the fact that traditionally proprietary companies such as IBM for example are doing very nicely from open...
[March 8, 2007, 13:56]
Open source needs culture club
Leader Our survey of official attitudes to open source has revealed a whole spectrum of responses, from excitement through to hostility. The arguments for and against open source all ostensibly centre around good, solid facts — capital and operational...
[November 9, 2005, 14:40]
Open source scores in higher education
News Only a quarter of Britain's colleges and universities have a policy on open source software (OSS), yet over three quarters have considered deploying it — largely due to cost considerations. These findings have emerged in a survey conducted by OSS...
[August 7, 2006, 13:35]
There needs to be a culture shift - open source yes - free -no
Talkback Working in a large educational establishment I am fully aware of open source potential. Wanting "something for nothing" is a peculiarly British trait, but is, I believe, wholly the wrong motivation for considering open source software.
[February 25, 2008, 9:47]
US Report: Open Market shares jump as Intel buys
News Under the agreement, Intel bought 330,000 restricted shares of Open Market stock. Open Market has 30.6 million shares outstanding. Open Market said it will make its Transact software available on Intel Pentium II-based servers running Windows NT...
[June 5, 1998, 6:00]
Open source software may be free, but there's still money involved
Blog For an open source project started by a hobbyist it has an awful lot of corporate backing these days. Serious money is being spent on employing coders to hack the kernel, and the companies responsible wouldn't do that if there was no money to be...
[August 21, 2009, 17:17]
Open-source code maintainer filled with flaws
News Security researchers have found at least six more flaws in the open-software world's most popular program for maintaining code under development. Major open-source projects, including the Apache Foundation's Apache Web server and the GNOME and KDE...
[June 10, 2004, 9:05]
Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
White Papers The open source software movement, which has gained publicity as the popularity of the Linux operating system has grown, provides an alternative to the economic incentives that dominate the thinking of U.S.intellectual property policy.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Open Source: not 'if', but 'what'
Talkback Open source is not the new environmentally friendly. Businesses will measure the risk in quantifiable terms, not in terms of loyalty or out of principle. They’ll want to know how much downtime is involved, how much it will cost to make the move...
[October 9, 2004, 17:48]
Open Source Strategies for Educational Multimedia
White Papers This paper briefly presents the system, motivates the decision to release it using a combined open source and "Community source" model, and highlights major challenges that lie ahead. ePresence is an educational multimedia system for producing...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Open source application service launched by Red Hat
Blog Known as RHX (Red Hat Exchange) the online portal is positioned to provide IT professionals with a one-stop shop to find open source applications that are optimised to work on top of the Red Hat Linux operating system.
[May 10, 2007, 17:33]
Open Source is the freedom of Choice, not necessarily the cheaper option.
Blog Admittedly Open Source can be cheaper if you think of the code itself not costing anything. He asked me if I use Open Source Software because it is cheaper than the alternatives. At the end of the day, whether a product is Open Source or...
[September 21, 2009, 10:06]
Open Standards for Integrity-based Network Access Control
White Papers In addition to this strong security, TNC open interfaces allow components from different vendors to be integrated into a single whole. Learn how to integrate the trusted hardware of the TPM into a network access control framework with the...
[May 12, 2005, 0:00]
Open source Skype? Partly.
Blog Comment I would love to see the open source teams develop there own from scratch fully supporting text, voice, video, and user definably encryption, along with true peer to peer technology as well as user scalable Voip & telephony options.
[November 2, 2009, 20:19]
