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A look inside Google's open-source kitchen

December 13, 2006 Google's Chris DiBona says the search giant has a lot of involvement in open source, but is also a firm believer in proprietary software. TAGS: open-source developer, open source, open-source project, Google Inc., phishing, open-source software, project, social networking, code, activity, Java

Google crawls into source code search

October 5, 2006 Search giant gives software developers a tool that lets them search billions of lines of source code. TAGS: Google Inc., open source, source code, programmer, developer, code, search, search engine

Banks 'should give back to open-source community'

April 26, 2006 The Street is making increasing use of open source, but the financial world should contribute more code, experts say. TAGS: open-source community, competitive advantage, open source, Novell Inc., Wall Street, financial company, audience, conference, bank, code, New York, Linux

Open-source firm offers to protect customers from lawsuits

October 17, 2006 Software seller OpenLogic says it will indemnify buyers against legal action connected with its open-source products. TAGS: SCO Group Inc., open-source software, open source, legal action, lawsuit, enterprise, intellectual property, IBM Corp., Unix, London, code, Linux

Sendmail firming up open-source plans

June 16, 2006 E-mail software company will open-source some proprietary products if legal and patent concerns can be addressed. TAGS: Sendmail Inc., open source, information retrieval, sourcing, candidate, code, e-mail

'Second Life' software becomes open-source

January 8, 2007 Outsiders will be able to modify the viewer software; Linden Lab plans to follow suit with the server software, too. TAGS: Second Life, server software, open source, Linux kernel, virtual worlds, GPL, open-source software, Linux, code, server, agreement

Novell brands its own open-source religion

May 9, 2006 To perk up revenue from open-source software, Novell readies an open-source identity-management package and desktop Linux suite. TAGS: Novell Inc., identity management, open source, open-source software, Linux, Novell NetWare, IBM Corp., code, brand, server, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

British mapping agency takes on Google Maps

November 2, 2006 Ordnance Survey is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mashups. TAGS: Google Maps, open source, mashup, Google Inc., U.K., map, code

So much for the 'new and improved' GPL

April 30, 2007 James V. DeLong says the Free Software Foundation's intellectual hostility toward copy protection threatens to create new problems. TAGS: Free Software Foundation, GPLv3, anti-DRM, digital-rights management, GPL, provision, open-source community, code, information technology, open source, Linux, movie
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