Microsoft releases source code to open source community

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Open-Source Community Eager for
Cloudscape Code

Open-Source Community Eager for
Cloudscape Code 08/05/2004 07:54 PM
IBM's move to open-source its Java database "permits applications to count on the functionality of a real database from the get-go," says a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Microsoft Releases Source Code for WTL

Microsoft Releases Source Code for WTL 05/13/2004 11:02 AM

Microsoft Releases Source Code on
SourceForge

Microsoft Releases Source Code on
SourceForge 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge By Mary Jo Foley
http://www. eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1561989,00.asp

On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository. To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its "shared source" umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly considered a true open-source license. Microsoft made available an internally developed product called the Windows Installer XML (WiX) to SourceForge. The code is downloadable here.

Microsoft Research Releases Allegiance
Source Code

Microsoft Research Releases Allegiance
Source Code 02/11/2004 11:00 AM
Allegiance was an incredible experience for the development team. We were all first-timers, trying our best to create a fun, innovative, challenging game. We think we succeeded there, even if we failed at being commercially successful. Allegiance seemed to die all too soon—for a variety of reasons. But we’ve been amazed at the level to which some of the Allegiance fans have remained hard-core. We’re astounded at the progress that has been made at creating new factions, hosting new servers, replacing authentication, etc. It seems that Allegiance hasn’t really died.

Microsoft Releases Source Code for
Windows Template Library

Microsoft Releases Source Code for
Windows Template Library 05/12/2004 02:33 PM
The company frees the code under the open-source Common Public License and posts it on SourceForge, saying the move will make WTL no longer just something its users consume "but rather something they can pick up and modify."

Microsoft Posts More Open Source Code
(TechWeb)

Microsoft Posts More Open Source Code
(TechWeb) 05/14/2004 03:03 AM
TechWeb - Microsoft has posted its Windows Template Library (WTL) to the SourceForge site.

Microsoft to Offer Office Source Code
Under Shared Source

Microsoft to Offer Office Source Code
Under Shared Source 09/20/2004 10:45 AM
Microsoft is releasing its Microsoft Office desktop source code to qualifying international governments and agencies via the company's Shared Source licensing program.

Portability of Mono code helps to bridge
Microsoft/open source gap

Portability of Mono code helps to bridge
Microsoft/open source gap 02/01/2005 09:25 PM
Computer Weekly Feb 1 2005 12:01PM GMT

Microsoft releases first open source
project with externally-created license

Microsoft releases first open source
project with externally-created license 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
InternetNews.com: "WiX is the first project from Microsoft to be released under the Common Public License, an externally created open source license." Slashdot readers remain skeptical, but I think the world is truly changing....

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb) 04/08/2005 04:56 AM
TechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
What should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the whole enchilada.

Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source

Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
ANALYSIS: Redmond would be smart to make lemonade out of lemons by releasing the rest of the Windows code and letting developers have at it.

Open Source Community Building

Open Source Community Building 03/24/2005 05:27 AM
Open Source Community Building by Matthias Stürmer
http://opensource. mit.edu/papers/sturmer.pdf

Abstract
Building an active and helpful community around an open source project is a complex task for its leaders. Therefore investigations in this work are intended to define the optimum starting position of an open source project and to identify recommendable promoting actions by project leaders to enlarge community size in a healthy way. For this paper eight interviews with committed representatives of successful open source projects have led to over 12 hours of conversation about community building. Analysing the statements of these experienced community members exposed helpful activities that led to the presently prospering communities of their projects. Summarizing the conclusions of this qualitative research a table with conditions for successful open source project initialisation and a subject-level promotion matrix of community building could be created. They include suggestions o­n how to start a new open source project and how to improve and increase the community of an already advanced open source project.

Apple And The Open Source Community

Apple And The Open Source Community 07/04/2004 06:56 PM

What's Wrong with the Open Source
Community?

What's Wrong with the Open Source
Community? 12/02/2003 12:27 AM
Slashdot Dec 1 2003 1:09PM ET

More On The Corporate Gated Open Source
Community

More On The Corporate Gated Open Source
Community 04/29/2004 11:56 AM
Earlier this month we joked about how the new Avalanche CIO co-op was really open source with a $30,000 gate. It appears that the group doesn't see it as a joke. That's exactly how they describe themselves. The interview with one of the founders also raises some interesting points about how the group is going to avoid a SCO-IBM situation where some of the software that goes into the co-op is accused of having intellectual property violations. The guy from the co-op sort of brushes that off by saying they have a top intellectual property law firm who will review all submissions to make sure they're safe. Considering the number of software patents showing up these days on all sorts of minor software processes, and the fact that I'd put IBM's lawyers up against any top IP law firm any day and they certainly didn't expect SCO to go on this bizarre run, I doubt that's much real protection. If anything, this may end up opening up the companies in the co-op to more (pointless, of course) patent lawsuits by revealing their internal software. For instance, the first piece of software in the co-op was an internal application from Best Buy. Before this, no one outside of Best Buy really knew what it did, since it was all internal. Thus, there was almost no risk of being accused of patent infringment. However, by opening it up (admittedly to just a few companies right now) they risk someone who has patents on some tiny process used in their software to come back and sue them and any of the other companies in the co-op who downloads it. Maybe after a few of these types of lawsuits the companies involved in the co-op will become a bit more pro-active in fighting against bad software patents.

Free/Open Source research Community

Free/Open Source research Community 12/09/2003 01:27 PM
Free/Open Source Research Community
http://opensource.mit.edu/h ome.html

Free/open source software (F/OSS) is software for which the human-readable source code is made available to the user of the software, who can then modify the code in order to fit the software to the user’s needs. The source code is the set of written instructions that define a program in its original form, and when it’s made fully accessible programmers can read it, modify it, and redistribute it, thereby improving and adapting the software. In this manner the software evolves at a rate unmatched by traditional proprietary software. For many years free/open source software has been building momentum. Beginning amidst the technical cultures that produced the Internet and World Wide Web, it is now causing quite a stir in the commercial world as large software corporations are finding themselves competing against commercially available open source software.

This new demand for free and open source software has piqued interest among scholars in disciplines ranging from sociology to economics to social psychology, and has raised questions in fields of application ranging from innovation processes to strategic management. As an aid to these scholars, they offer the Free / Open Source Research Community. By having visitors contribute to our research databases, they hope to establish a community of information exchange that will lead to a greater understanding of open source and it's applications.

In the spirit of free and open source software (F/OSS), they are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that others may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development. They invite researchers to post their papers on open source and free software here, and to add themselves to the research directory, so that their community can become steadily larger and more comprehensive.

Red Hat building open source community
in India

Red Hat building open source community
in India 01/24/2004 12:09 AM
BANGALORE, INDIA - Linux vendor Red Hat is investing in India to build an open source community in the country, with educational institutions likely to be a key focus, according to the company's top executive.

Red Hat to build open-source community
in India

Red Hat to build open-source community
in India 01/26/2004 10:18 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 26 2004 2:08PM GMT

Attacks puzzle open-source community

Attacks puzzle open-source community 02/13/2004 06:56 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 13 2004 10:52AM GMT

Openwave Courts Open Source Community

Openwave Courts Open Source Community 05/31/2002 10:12 AM

Google reaches out to open-source
community

Google reaches out to open-source
community 03/19/2005 03:28 AM
The site is aimed at providing the open-source community with software tools developed and used internally by Google, contributing code that external developers might find useful.

Apple Releases Darwin 7.0 Source Code

Apple Releases Darwin 7.0 Source Code 10/29/2003 01:13 AM
Apple has released the source code for Darwin 7.0, which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.3.

The released version of each Darwin project is available to browse or download as a source archive. To browse the sources click on the project name in the list on Apple's Darwin project page. To download a source archive, click on the ".tar.gz" in the same row as the project.

Beagle Author releases source code

Beagle Author releases source code 07/06/2004 05:20 AM

It is being deduced that the Beagle author released the source code so that if he was caught he can claim that the source code is available on the net to help divert attention away from him. What is also interesting is the code is written in pure assembler proving this was no amateur. Expect a significant number variants of the Beagle worm to be on the loose soon. [ZDNet]

IBM releases source code of speech
software

IBM releases source code of speech
software 09/27/2004 08:57 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 27 2004 1:38PM GMT

Apple releases source code for Darwin
7.0

Apple releases source code for Darwin
7.0 10/30/2003 11:59 PM
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- In sync with the release of Apple's latest and greatest operating system, Panther (aka Mac OS 10.3), the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has released the source code of Darwin 7.0. The code became available at 8 p.m. Oct. 24, and various versions are now available for free download at Opensource.Apple.com.

Can the open source community beat
software patenters?

Can the open source community beat
software patenters? 08/10/2004 10:51 AM
Patents and the threat they pose to open source and overall software innovation are a hot topic, but patents may not be a useful weapons against a community that works with, ardently supports, and defends open source with money, time, and expertise.

vnunet: Open Source Community Preaches
Coexistence

vnunet: Open Source Community Preaches
Coexistence 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
"Open source and commercial applications will coexist in peace, Marten Mickos, chief executive at MySQL, said in a keynote presentation at LinuxWorld, adding that open source will help the IT industry to move more quickly into new markets..."

BEA Builds Beehive for Open-Source
Community (NewsFactor)

BEA Builds Beehive for Open-Source
Community (NewsFactor) 05/20/2004 03:46 PM
NewsFactor - BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) is delivering software code for its WebLogic framework, with an eye to drawing more developers to the platform and speeding the creation of more Java-based enterprise applications.

IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor)

IBM Tips Derby to Open-Source Community
(NewsFactor) 08/03/2004 06:10 PM
NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is providing its Cloudscape relational database software to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an open-source organization, hoping to spur innovation for Java applications for embedded databases.

Fedora Directory Server Now Available To
The Open Source Community

Fedora Directory Server Now Available To
The Open Source Community 06/05/2005 11:28 PM

IBM Donates Speech Technology to Open
Source Community

IBM Donates Speech Technology to Open
Source Community 09/13/2004 10:28 PM
IBM has contributed speech technology to the Apache Software Foundation. By releasing its source code IBM hopes to bring a quick end to battles over competing, proprietary standards; solidifying the industry behind VoiceXML.

Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community

Kernel Changes Draw Concern from
Open-Source Community 04/17/2005 11:09 AM
The Linux 2.6 kernel is getting fatter, some contend; others say new features are optional and that their use is at the discretion of organizations compiling their builds of the kernel.

Notebook: Open-Source Community Upbeat
at LinuxWorld

Notebook: Open-Source Community Upbeat
at LinuxWorld 08/03/2004 11:07 PM
Attendees are finding plenty to appreciate at this week's LinuxWorld show in San Francisco, including new products, desktop Linux and guys in kilts.

Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans

Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS
Spam Plans 09/17/2004 07:45 PM
The broadness of Microsoft's recently revealed e-mail authenication patent confirms open-source concerns with the company's anti-spam efforts using Sender ID.

Community News: MoviePartners' Open
Source Move

Community News: MoviePartners' Open
Source Move 05/26/2004 07:31 AM
Via a link from PHP Magazine today, there is a special note off the newswire about the MoviePartners leveraging open source technologies to launch two new websites, one of which is the "oldest and largest" screenwriting communities still in operation.

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

CA issues million dollar challenge to
open source community

CA issues million dollar challenge to
open source community 08/07/2004 08:41 AM

Free/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers

Free/Open Source Research Community
Online Papers 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Free/Open Source Research Community Online Papers
http://opensource.m it.edu/online_papers.php

Free/open source software (F/OSS) is software for which the human-readable source code is made available to the user of the software, who can then modify the code in order to fit the software to the user’s needs. The source code is the set of written instructions that define a program in its original form, and when it’s made fully accessible programmers can read it, modify it, and redistribute it, thereby improving and adapting the software. In this manner the software evolves at a rate unmatched by traditional proprietary software.

For many years free/open source software has been building momentum. Beginning amidst the technical cultures that produced the Internet and World Wide Web, it is now causing quite a stir in the commercial world as large software corporations are finding themselves competing against commercially available open source software.
information. This new demand for free and open source software has piqued interest among scholars in disciplines ranging from sociology to economics to social psychology, and has raised questions in fields of application ranging from innovation processes to strategic management. The online papers archives represents the latest thinking and current happenings.
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