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Fedora wants to draw in women

July 31, 2006 The project is trying to attract female coders, but some members of the open-source software community doubt it will be a success. TAGS: Fedora Project, women, F/OSS, community, mailing list, open source, Debian, open-source software

IBM: Proprietary technology not enough

April 6, 2005 These days, it's necessary to balance proprietary, open-source approaches, Big Blue exec stresses at conference. TAGS: intellectual property, open source, IBM Corp., approach, open-source software, offering, community, Novell Inc., conference, Linux

Novell halts its Hula dance

November 29, 2006 Founder of open-source e-mail and calendaring software project decides to move on while calling on community to continue. TAGS: Novell Inc., open source, leadership, community, e-mail

Open source, open wallet

November 7, 2005 Venture money going to companies with an "open-source" plan is rising rapidly. Is that a good thing? TAGS: open source, Matrix Partners, open-source company, business model, bubble, investment, venture capital, community, business intelligence, start-up, software company, IBM Corp.

Mozilla plans to fund developer community

March 22, 2006 "While we have funds beyond our operating levels, some of it should to go to community members," company CEO says. TAGS: Mitchell Baker, fund, open-source project, Mozilla Corp., contributor, foundation, open source, community, Yahoo! Inc., CEO

Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia

September 29, 2005 Magazine writer puts online encyclopedia's collaborative, open-source ethos to the test. TAGS: Wikipedia, encyclopedia, draft, community, article, entry, open source

Which way, open-sourcers?

September 12, 2006 Software advocate says the latest draft of the GPL license is driving a wedge between the open-source and free-software communities. TAGS: GPL 3, GPL, open-source community, Free Software Foundation, Linus Torvalds, community, provision, Richard Stallman, open source, Linux

IBM takes potshots at OpenSolaris

August 16, 2006 Big Blue, a major Linux fan, bashes top rival Sun's effort to make its Unix an open-source operating system. TAGS: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., open source, community, Linux, IBM AIX, programmer, project, Unix, operating system

Trolltech axes the Greenphone

October 22, 2007 The Linux developer says it will now focus on its Qtopia platform and leave the hassles of hardware to other companies. TAGS: Trolltech, Mobile Linux, Vodafone Group Plc., hardware company, mobile application, handset, open source, community, platform, Linux, developer

What's wrong with the Java community process?

March 10, 2005 IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would be to everyone's benefit--even Sun. TAGS: Steve Mills, JCP, Java, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., mainframe, community, standards, open source

Sun likes what it sees in the new GPL

February 9, 2007 Patent protections are just part of why version 3 of the license might be good for open-sourcing Java and Solaris, CEO says. TAGS: GPL, Sun Solaris, GPL 3, GNU, Jonathan Schwartz, Free Software Foundation, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL 2, GPLv3, open source, kernel, community, Java, Linux, license, interview

Sun expands open-source Java plan

August 15, 2006 Server and software company to release open-source components, open up Java for gadgets this year. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., open-source version, Java, open source, open-source software, programming language, community, Microsoft .NET, software company, component, IBM Corp., server, Microsoft Corp.

When more bugs can mean tighter security

December 7, 2007 Mozilla Europe president explains why having fewer disclosed vulnerabilities doesn't mean Internet Explorer is safer than the open-source Web browser. TAGS: Mozilla Corp., secure, community, motivation, bug, vulnerability, Firefox, open source, president, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., security

New browser gives taste of Web 2.0

October 21, 2005 Flock is based on Firefox and includes automatic RSS feeds, photo and bookmark sharing, and other next-generation Web technologies. Images: The Flock browser's debut TAGS: web technology, blogging, open source, online photo, Web 2.0, blog, RSS, Firefox, Mozilla Corp., Web browser, community, developer, photograph

IBM AlphaWorks: From software theory to fact

June 5, 2008 Laura Bennett, senior engineering manager at IBM's software development community, discusses how the group helps turn research concepts from the labs into practical products. TAGS: software engineering, Semantic Web, data visualization, IBM Corp., community, software-as-a-service, RAD, theory, division, health care, Web 2.0, programming, career, open source, health, information technology

Sun picks GPL license for Java code

November 13, 2006 After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. TAGS: GPL, Java Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, GPL 2, open source, license, community, Linux
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