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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, Google Inc., code, project, phishing, social networking, open-source software, activity, Java

IBM steps into open-source Java project

July 21, 2005 Long an open-source Java advocate, Big Blue begins participating in Harmony and plans to submit code, exec says. TAGS: Java, open source, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., code, project

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, code, search, project, search engine, developer

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: competitive advantage, open-source community, open source, Novell Inc., Wall Street, financial company, bank, audience, code, New York, conference, Linux

Microsoft shares Windows tools via open source

May 13, 2004 The software powerhouse releases into the open-source community a series of pre-existing templates that developers can freely modify. TAGS: Jason Matusow, SourceForge, template, open source, open-source community, code, Microsoft Corp., XML, developer, Microsoft Windows

MySQL to make use of Microsoft code

October 11, 2004 The code, which was open-sourced in April, will be used for the administration tool that connects to the MySQL database. TAGS: MySQL, source code, code, PostgreSQL, MySQL Database, open source, database, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Microsoft flexes more open-source muscle

September 27, 2004 Software giant releases code for FlexWiki Web collaboration program--its third application to go public. TAGS: FlexWiki, SourceForge, Jason Matusow, open source, Wiki, open-source community, code, Microsoft Corp., collaboration, project, XML, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft airs tools' source code online

April 6, 2004 In what may be the first time Microsoft has adopted a pure open-source approach for a product, the company reveals the code for its Windows Installer XML software. TAGS: Jason Matusow, code, SourceForge, XML, source code, open source, software development, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system

Real: Baby steps toward freedom

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

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: GPLv3, anti-DRM, Free Software Foundation, digital-rights management, GPL, provision, open-source community, code, Linux, open source, information technology, movie

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, legal action, open source, enterprise, lawsuit, IBM Corp., intellectual property, code, Unix, London, 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., information retrieval, open source, 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, GPL, virtual worlds, code, Linux, open-source software, project, agreement, server

Microsoft may offer peek at SQL Server code

February 23, 2005 The company is looking at making the source code for the next version of SQL Server available under its shared-source program. TAGS: Microsoft SQL Server, Jason Matusow, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, source code, Stephen O'Grady, open source, product development, code, database, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., security, server, developer, Microsoft Windows

Open-source programmer rebuts charge

September 21, 2004 Back-and-forth dance characterizes dispute over code released to open-source Mambo project. TAGS: Mambo, open-source programmer, open-source software, open source, open-source community, party, code, agreement, attorney

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, Novell NetWare, Linux, SuSE, IBM Corp., code, project, brand, server, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Linux community scoffs at SCO's evidence

August 20, 2003 As pictures of contested Linux code make their way online, open-source enthusiasts are bashing SCO Group for its claims that the code shows that it has legal rights over the OS. TAGS: SCO Group Inc., Bruce Perens, BSD, slide, Linux, Silicon Graphics Inc., code, Unix, open source, IBM Corp., operating system, conference

Microsoft mulls opening of Office code

January 16, 2004 The purveyor of proprietary software is looking to expand its Shared Source Initiative to Office, which lets companies see source code underlying Office, server applications and more. TAGS: Jason Matusow, source code, Microsoft Office, expansion, code, open source, Microsoft Corp., government, XML, Linux, server, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft simplifies code-sharing plan

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., code, Mozilla Corp., Bluetooth, developer

Study: Few bugs in MySQL database

February 4, 2005 The open-source database has only 97 flaws and has been well-coded, an analysis finds. TAGS: Coverity, MySQL, MySQL Database, analysis, bug, flaw, open source, code, database, security, Linux, Microsoft Corp.