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Open-source maneuvers

A new Java undertaking gets some Big Blue backing, while a Microsoft exec calls the open-source architecture "brittle."

A new Java undertaking gets some Big Blue backing, while a Microsoft exec calls the open-source architecture "brittle."

IBM steps into open-source Java project

Long an open-source Java advocate, Big Blue has begun participating in Harmony and plans to submit code, an exec says.
July 21, 2005

Microsoft's eye on open source

newsmaker Martin Taylor, general manager of platform strategy, evangelizes that open source may not be all it's cut out to be.
July 20, 2005

OS/2 fans to IBM: Give us the code

blog Fans of the discontinued operating system are petitioning the company to open-source it, or at least portions of it.
July 18, 2005

previous coverage

Open-source P2P projects keep swapping

Supreme Court ruling casts cloud over commercial file-trading companies, but independent projects continue unabated.
July 15, 2005

Red Hat teams up with Open-Xchange

The Linux provider will support the collaboration toolset on Red Hat Enterprise Server 4.
July 15, 2005

SCO e-mail: No 'smoking gun' in Linux code

In 2002 missive, a SCO engineer said an internal probe found "no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever."
July 14, 2005