Rich Internet plug-in technology to get open source analysis framework at Mix10 conference.
Read More (Software)Rich Internet plug-in technology to get open source analysis framework at Mix10 conference.
Read More (Software)In the trial at the Court of Appeals, the dispute about whether it is SCO or Novell who owns the copyrights to Unix is taking a new turn...
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Read More (Industry News)The biggest story this past week on Ars was ad-blocking. You may not have realized it, but blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit.
Read More (Industry News)Once again, Google has bought something only to open source it.
This time it’s ReMail, first acquired, then put on Google Code as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.
The continuing conflict between Google and China, which may be a proxy for deeper conflicts over economics and values, could easily impact open source.
That’s because Google has become the U.S. company most identified with open source development.
XML co-creator Tim Bray has joined the exodus from Oracle and landed at Google, as a “developer advocate” for the Android.
Bray, who like tech titans Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, was born in 1955 (as was this humble blogger), is now expected to be a much more familiar face to reporters, contrasting what he calls Android’s open development vision with the Apple iPhone’s “
“If Apple wants to be a real leader, it should be fostering innovation and competition, rather than acting as a jealous and arbitrary feudal lord.”
Is that a quote from Richard Stallman? From Steve Ballmer?
The Mozilla Foundation will re-write its Mozilla Public License to make it more compatible with Apache and more globally acceptable.
Mozilla is best known for its Firefox browser. (Picture from Wikimedia.)
Call it one small step by a licensor, one giant leap against license proliferation.
The most important result may be to make it easy for Google Code contributions to move into the browser.
A number of humorous yet undocumented features are hiding beneath the surface of some of the most popular open source software applications.
Read More (Industry News)Key members of the Sun Drizzle team have recently joined Rackspace. This is great news for Drizzle users, but it also begins positioning Rackspace as an enterprise software provider for the next decade.read more
Read More (Blog and Opinion)Institutional stock holder/Hedge Fund Elliot Associates wants to buy Novell and take it private. Sean Michael Kerner thinks this is a good idea, and a good deal for Novell.
Read More (Industry News)In the modern world it's super easy to create, but harder to throw things away, which may be setting up big costs for us down the line.
Read More (Blog and Opinion)The world of Linux applications continues to expand and improve, so check out Eric Geier's roundup of ten great Linux applications you might not have discovered yet: media players, Web page designer, video creation, run Linux on Windows, Windows apps on Linux, and more.
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