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Open-source bug hunt project expands
March 28, 2007
Bug tally is at 6,000 on the first anniversary of government-sponsored project, which is adding more open-source code to scan.
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Symantec Corp.
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.
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Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
May 21, 2007
The company will sponsor an open-source project to create converter between Ecma Open XML and Chinese standard. Also: new ODF converters.
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Microsoft Corp.
Security from A to Z: Open source
November 27, 2006
Experts have issued warnings of complacency over security in open-source projects. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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Site helps developers navigate open-source jungle
July 14, 2006
Ohloh compiles data on open-source projects, in an effort to help people find, compare software and choose the right one.
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Microsoft Corp.
Open season on OpenDocument
July 6, 2006
Battle takes turn Microsoft announces sponsorhip of an open-source project to create a OpenDocument converter.
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Microsoft Corp.
Liberty Alliance courts open-source projects
January 23, 2007
Group aims to make it easier for open-source developers to use its specifications for sharing identity data in applications.
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Oracle gets Groovy with open-source project
May 12, 2006
The database giant will participate in Grails, an open-source development that combines the Groovy scripting language and Java infrastructure.
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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.
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Open-source P2P projects keep swapping
July 15, 2005
Supreme Court ruling casts cloud over commercial file-trading companies, but independent projects continue unabated.
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Open-source consortium wins EC funding
October 23, 2006
The European Commission is committing millions of euros to a consortium examining the quality of open-source code.
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Developers fast to fix open-source bugs
April 4, 2006
Holes in popular open-source packages found in a government-funded scan were plugged swiftly, Coverity says.
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LAMP lights the way in open-source security
March 6, 2006
U.S. government-sponsored analysis finds that the most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs.
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IBM spearheads Ajax tools at Eclipse
February 1, 2006
Open Ajax is a proposed open-source project to let programmers build Web apps using Eclipse, Ajax toolkits.
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BEA Systems Inc.
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Open-source group wants educational patent reversed
December 1, 2006
The Software Freedom Law Center says the "junk patent" threatens open-source projects. The holder says it's willing to deal--but the group asks too much.
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Wiki start-up taps open source to lure new users
July 25, 2006
Looking for more users, wiki appliance company MindTouch will open source its business wiki software and a Web development framework.
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Microsoft Corp.
Mozilla finally turns 1.0
June 5, 2002
The browser software, four years in the making in an open-source project, arrives on the Web. Netscape says developers wanted to be sure it would "be ready for prime time."
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IBM tunes up for Jazz open-source project
January 30, 2007
Set to launch in June, Jazz aims to modernize development tools for programming teams that are geographically spread out.
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HP balks at patent provision in GPL update
August 2, 2006
So far, Hewlett-Packard prefers the earlier GPL, raising the specter that two versions of the license will survive.
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