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October 19, 2005 Company strips down its Shared Source Initiative to three licenses, one of which is modeled on the Mozilla Public License. TAGS: license, source code, OSI, open source, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., code, Bluetooth, developer

December 23, 2004 The license that forms the legal underpinnings of Linux--and a software industry revolution--is being updated for the first time since 1991. TAGS: GPL, Trusted Computing, license, Richard Stallman, source code, foundation, open source, Bill Gates, Web service, open-source software, IBM Corp., attorney, programming, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

March 16, 2005 "Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source. TAGS: J2SE, Java, James Gosling, Java software, Sun Microsystems Inc., license, Java software company, open source, J2EE, Java 2, source code, software company

July 23, 2002 Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens writes that RealNetworks is off to a good start in opening up some source code, but it needs to go further if it wants to block Microsoft's advance. TAGS: RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealAudio, Open Source Initiative, RealNetworks RealVideo, open source, codec, OGG, open-source community, license, GPL, code, source code, co-founder, Microsoft Windows Media Player, media player, server

July 17, 2000 The company will open the source code of its Star Office software Wednesday, but a major new version of the product has been delayed. TAGS: Applix Inc., StarOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, license, Linux, GPL, source code, Microsoft Office, acquisition, handheld, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

September 9, 2004 Company goes head-to-head with MySQL and PostgreSQL with a free version of its ASE database for Linux. TAGS: Sybase Adaptive Server, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase Inc., PostgreSQL, GPL, database, open source, Linux, source code, database company, license, MySQL

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