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CA brings more patents to the open source party
News Last year, however, it dipped its toe into open source by making its Ingres database an open source project and selling support services. Computer Associates (CA) will give open source projects access to 14 of its patents, the company said...
[September 8, 2005, 8:55]
Google open sources Wave components
News While these are still early days for the federation protocol and open-source project, our vision for Wave recognises the importance of encouraging and promoting third-party implementations, so users and businesses are able to customise and manage...
[July 27, 2009, 14:55]
Open-source programmer rebuts charge
News When it comes to the General Public License (GPL) -- the licence that governs Mambo -- it's possible for one party to write open-source software for another, giving that other party the copyright but not the right to make it proprietary, he said.
[September 21, 2004, 8:35]
Sun wants Java to share more
News At the moment, there are different systems for mixing and matching third-party development tools with software from NetBeans, from the IBM-backed Eclipse project and from companies such as Borland. Alongside the NetBeans revamp, Sun is looking at...
[December 5, 2003, 10:30]
Nokia makes Linux patent pledge
News Nokia also believes that a party should not enjoy use of Nokia's patents and at the same time threaten the development of the Linux kernel by assertion of its own patents. Therefore, Nokia's commitment shall not apply with regard to any party...
[May 26, 2005, 10:15]
The issues making IT a political hot potato
Comment The Conservative Party appears to be genuinely interested in free, open-source software. In wealthier times, the Labour Party found in technology the perfect outlet in for its natural proclivities. Consider the NHS, where the IT project at the core...
[August 27, 2009, 12:59]
Munich Linux migration delayed by 'PR stunt'
News Mueller, along with a few others, came up with the idea of the Green Party drafting written questions to the mayor of Munich, to ask about software patents and their impact on the Munich's Linux migration project, known as LiMux.
[March 29, 2006, 11:05]
Oracle hopes to lead Eclipse Java project
News The Eclipse software provides a framework for plugging in third-party components. Oracle has proposed a project to the Eclipse open-source foundation to ease creation of high-end Java applications. Oracle intends to create commercial products based...
[April 14, 2005, 8:20]
French MPs dump Windows for Linux
News The project, backed by MPs Richard Cazenav and Bernard Carayon of the UMP party, will see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client.
[November 27, 2006, 8:03]
Sun shines on Jxta
News For the past three years, it has been developed as an open-source project backed by Sun, and has been used by several third-party software makers in their products. Sun Microsystems is planning to incorporate software developed through its peer-to...
[January 29, 2004, 11:50]
Sun: Open-sourcing Java is 'done'
News Phipps wanted to name the third-party companies but was "voted down", he said. Sun's Java is now officially an open-source project — mostly. Sun resisted making Java open-source software for years, worried that someone would "fork" the project into...
[May 10, 2007, 11:43]
Microsoft commits another £60K to Apache
News Microsoft's involvement in these specific communities range from having its employees being core contributors driving the project, to having folks contributing patches or ideas on our mailing lists, to even commissioning a third party to...
[November 5, 2009, 13:56]
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed on browser market
News In an attempt to stem the increasing dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, Mozilla designed Gecko -- the core browsing engine of Mozilla browsers -- to be used in third-party applications.
[June 6, 2002, 8:48]
Linspire launches free Linux distribution
News Freespire also includes proprietary third-party software in situations where there are not yet viable open source alternatives. By including third-party proprietary drivers, codecs and applications software, Freespire is "able to provide better out...
[August 10, 2006, 12:50]
Mozilla release could trigger battle of the browsers
News Ultimately, however, it decided the step is an important concession to attracting third-party developers that could create applications based on its technology. Mozilla.org remains an independent organisation that exists to make Mozilla a...
[April 12, 2002, 17:30]
Google Android platform source code: "free for everyone"
Blog Developers can now contribute code, with a full set of APIs that allows the platform to host applications written by third-party developers. In what is arguably a fairly significant milestone for the Android Open Source Project, it is hoped that...
[October 21, 2008, 16:01]
Open-source group broadens its reach
News Both BEA and Sun have programmes designed to entice third-party tools vendors to plug in to their own development tools and are not expected to join Eclipse. Although Sun has raised the possibility of linking its own open-source development tool...
[December 16, 2002, 15:44]
Indian OpenOffice roll-out continues
News The Hindi CDs were officially launched by Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Indian Congress party, in a ceremony that was also attended by the Indian IT Minister and local journalists. The project hopes that once people are used to the open source...
[June 23, 2005, 17:30]
Microsoft's open-source patent threat still intact
News In December, Samba announced a complicated third-party arrangement that in effect gives it access to Microsoft's communication protocols, a move that came shortly after the EU required Microsoft to share interoperability information with open...
[February 22, 2008, 12:03]
Microsoft's licence to kill
Talkback I'm not sharing the API's themselves, just my code that uses them - it's up to the third party to figure that out on their own. Suppose I purchase the API, and I'm on the Samba project, which aims to create an Open Source Windows Server compliant...
[March 18, 2005, 22:10]
