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Source Code Is Not The Right Protocol
Talkback If the source code Microsoft was offering, was to be licensed under the Microsoft Community License or the Microsoft Permissive License - not the Limited-to-Microsoft versions of those licenses - I would see the value of it to European developers.
[January 27, 2006, 6:37]
Netscape To Make Browsers, Source Code Free
News In a dramatic about-turn that responds to the demands of both customers and developers, Netscape is to make its mainstream browser software and source code free. Both the standard versions of the Navigator browser and Communicator Net client will...
[January 22, 1998, 18:24]
Source Code Not Patentable?
Talkback Sounds like an algorithm expressed in structured english or even in source code is not patentable any longer. But the ruling suggests that copies of code that can be, for example, downloaded from the internet or inserted in a CD-ROM drive and...
[June 19, 2007, 9:35]
Source Code Is Not The Right Protocol
Leader On the face of it, Microsoft looks like it is being reasonable to the point of generosity in its offer to reveal Windows server source code to those who license its server interoperability protocols. The obvious problem with the offer, made by way...
[January 26, 2006, 12:00]
Microsoft Shares Source Code With AIDS Researchers
News Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has released to the AIDS research community the source code for four analytical software tools, a move intended to aid the development of a vaccine for the disease.
[June 14, 2007, 9:08]
Ordnance Survey Opens Map Source Code
News The Ordnance Survey has opened up its map source code for online developers to use when creating Web 2.0 applications such as mashups. Steve Coast, founder of open source mapping group OpenStreetMap said the OS's OpenSpace project represents "one...
[December 17, 2007, 8:13]
Study Lauds Open-source Code Quality
News A consulting group that scrutinises the source code underlying several operating systems has found that a key networking component of Linux is of higher quality in many regards than competing closed-source software.
[February 20, 2003, 7:42]
Gartner: Force MS To Publish Source Code
News The only practical way to punish Microsoft for monopolistic practices is to force it to publish some of the source code for its operating systems, according to analyst Gartner Group's top brains. According to Thompson, publishing the parts of the...
[February 21, 2000, 6:40]
JBoss Downplays Open-source Code 'plagiarism'
Talkback It is obvious that the Apache Software Foundation is unable to perform proper audit of the source code they accept, and especially where they allow ex-developers from the original JBoss project to commit code changes.
[November 12, 2003, 18:23]
A LandMARC Success For Lancaster University: The Contribution Of Mobile IPv6 Source Code To Microsoft Windows Server And Windows CE .NET
White Papers However, some of the Ph.D.students at Lancaster started to experiment with the Windows source code as an alternative to the more established research platforms. The success of the LandMARC project at Lancaster University through the Microsoft...
[March 28, 2007, 0:00]
Open-source Code Contains 'as Many Flaws' As Proprietary
News The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found. The open-source code seems to start at the same defect rate for early...
[July 1, 2003, 11:12]
MS Opens Source Code To Inspire Trust
News Microsoft, long a proponent of keeping source code secret, plans to publish the source code to a critical part of its Palladium project to enhance security, a representative of the software giant said on Monday.
[June 26, 2002, 11:10]
UK Government Joins Office Source-code Scheme
News The UK government is at the forefront of a Microsoft scheme allowing access to the Office 2003 source code. The scheme, known as the Government Security Program, allows public sector bodies in over 30 countries to examine the company's jealously...
[September 20, 2004, 12:45]
Chip Makers Release Driver Source Code
News Taiwanese chip makers VIA Technologies and XGI Technology released the source code of various drivers this week in an attempt to improve Linux support for their products. VIA Technologies released the source code of various drivers, including its...
[April 14, 2005, 15:00]
Stallman Makes Taiwanese Source Code Plea
News Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has travelled to Taiwan to try and persuade local PC makers to release the source code of their drivers, according to reports. The community around the GNU operating system will promote the hardware...
[May 26, 2005, 17:20]
Novell Releases More Source Code
News For the second time, Novell has released the source code of a once-proprietary software package that makes it easier to substitute Linux for Microsoft's Windows. It will be available as a free download by 15 May, though source code is available now.
[May 12, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft Files Lawsuit Over Source Code Theft
News Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy-protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code.
[September 27, 2006, 8:40]
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]
It Helps To Have The Drivers' Source Code Available To Study.
Talkback The goal for all Linux drivers is (theoretically) to become merged with the main kernel sources, at which point their code is subjected to exactly the same scrutiny as the rest of the kernel's code. I think that the real risk being described by...
[September 19, 2007, 13:14]
Real Prepares To Unwind Source Code
News Thirteen weeks after its surprise announcement that it was releasing parts of its source code into open-source development, RealNetworks will make the first installment of that code available on Tuesday.
[October 24, 2002, 8:14]
