Open source wireless tools emerge

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Patents emerge as an open source issue

Patents emerge as an open source issue 08/06/2004 06:17 PM
The SCO group may not be the threat it once was, but IP (intellectual property) concerns were front and center at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco last week. Conference speakers called for changes to U.S. IP law and the way the open source community manages itself.

Open source translation tools

Open source translation tools 03/23/2005 04:12 AM
Do you speak open source, but English is not your native language? You can turn to a growing list of user-friendly tools for translators, including specialized graphical tools like poEdit, KBabel, and Gtranslator.

Open Source Tools for eActivism

Open Source Tools for eActivism 01/17/2004 11:21 PM
Top 10 Open Source Tools For E-Activism.

Good article today listing the "Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism". Some of these I hadn't even heard of before (like ActionApps, completely new to me).

Open source tools are a natural fit for e-activism, since they are born of the same bootstrap, grassroots mentality as a good e-activist campaign. Plus, they're free :-) Or at least cheap -- and often far better in quality than their commercial counterparts. [Seen on Many-to-Many]

[Ant's Eye View]

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford have put together a terrific list of Open Source tools that can be used by activists to spread the message and promote interaction by enewsletters, forums, blogs, wikis and epetitions. They wrote an article for Steven Clift's excellent Democracies Online Newswire.

1. ActionApps (On-line Magazine/Content Sharing) http://www.apc.org/actionapps/
2. PostNuke (Slash Forums/Portals) http://www.postnuke.com/
3. Drupal (Blogs) http://drupal.org/
4. Active (News Posting) http://www.active.org.au/doc/
5. phpList (eNewsletters) http://www.phplist.com/
6. phpBB (Forums) http://www.phpBB.com/
7. WebCards (eCards/email2friends) http://webcards.sourceforge.ne t/
8. TWiki (Wiki/Group Documentation) http://www.twiki.org/
9. Back-End (eActions/ePetitions) http://www.back-end.org/
10. FPDF (eLeaflets/ePosters) (Dynamic PDF/Graphic Generation) http://www.fpdf.org/

[Designing for a Civil Society]

Missing Open Source Security Tools?

Missing Open Source Security Tools? 06/28/2004 06:16 PM

reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR
Tools

reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR
Tools 03/30/2005 11:26 AM
reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR/IM Tools
http://www.theresearcher .ca/index.html

reSearcher is an award-winning integrated suite of open source tools for locating and managing electronic information resources, designed for use by students and researchers in academic libraries. The four main modules of reSearcher are: 1) GODOT, a full-text link resolver and interlibrary holdings locator and requesting system. 2) CUFTS, a full-text link resolver, knowledgebase, and electronic collection management tool, 3) Citation Manager, a tool for capturing, managing and exporting bibliographic data in a wide range of formats, and 4) dbWiz, a cross-database search tool. reSearcher enables academic libraries to provide students and researchers with streamlined access to an integrated array of information resources. Together, reSearcher's components deliver rich portal-type functionality, presenting a unified interface to research databases, library and union catalogues, internet search engines, and other electronic information sources. reSearcher is developed by Simon Fraser University Library for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). reSearcher is used daily by students, faculty, and staff in universities, colleges, university-colleges and institutes throughout Western Canada. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

Sun plots push for open-source tools

Sun plots push for open-source tools 12/07/2003 09:46 PM
ZDNet Australia Dec 7 2003 9:35PM ET

Management Tools 'Priority One' for Open
Source

Management Tools 'Priority One' for Open
Source 12/12/2003 09:01 PM
In order to gain traction in enterprise, the open source movement must develop better management and support tools, customers say.

IBM readies 'Atlantic' tools plus open
source effort

IBM readies 'Atlantic' tools plus open
source effort 07/19/2004 02:35 PM
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS -- IBM at the Rational Software Development User Conference here Monday revealed a planned upgrade to its Rational and IBM tools portfolio, dubbed ?Atlantic,? and also pledged to make some IBM products available under an open source format.

Open-Source Security Tools Touted at
InfoSec

Open-Source Security Tools Touted at
InfoSec 04/05/2005 10:21 PM
A security consultant encourages cash-strapped businesses to consider open-source security tools and utilities to help cope with the increasing spate of malicious hacker attacks.

Microsoft Share Windows Tools Via Open
Source

Microsoft Share Windows Tools Via Open
Source 05/13/2004 07:55 PM
Microsoft posted to SourceForge its Windows Template Library, a series of code snippets designed to make it easier for developers to create graphic interfaces for Windows programs. By Ina Fried, CNET News.com (via MyAppleMenu)

Microsoft shares Windows tools via open
source

Microsoft shares Windows tools via open
source 05/13/2004 06:22 PM
The software powerhouse releases into the open-source community a series of pre-existing templates that developers can freely modify.

Managing Huge Networks with Open Source
Tools?

Managing Huge Networks with Open Source
Tools? 08/06/2004 11:49 PM
Slashdot Aug 7 2004 2:58AM GMT

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades 07/06/2004 05:01 PM
Saying that poorly made software costs enterprises more than $22 billion a year, the company's Rational division plans to standardize its automated software quality tools on an open-source platform.

Using open source tools to build
interoperable Web services

Using open source tools to build
interoperable Web services 09/08/2004 12:36 PM
XML and Web services have been touted for years as the new lingua franca for application development, destined to transform the way companies conduct business and communicate. Lingua franca, or "bastardized French," was a pidgin or trade language used a couple of hundred years ago by various language communities around the Mediterranean to communicate with others whose language they didn't speak.

BlueGlue Tools Expedite Open-Source
Development

BlueGlue Tools Expedite Open-Source
Development 06/28/2004 10:10 AM
At JavaOne, OpenLogic will launch itself as well as its BlueGlue developer tools suite of more than 100 open-source tools from projects such as Eclipse, MySQL, Apache and JBoss.

Progress Embraces Open Source with
Eclipse-Based Tools

Progress Embraces Open Source with
Eclipse-Based Tools 06/22/2005 02:16 AM
Q&A: Progress Software's Joe Alsop explains the strategy behind the vendor's move to open source.

Company merges code-editing tools with
open-source framework

Company merges code-editing tools with
open-source framework 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
Java. It also allows developers to create and edit projects in 47 other languages, including C#, PHP, HTML, XML and COBOL. Although ...

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades (Ziff Davis)

IBM to Attune Quality Tools on
Open-Source Hyades (Ziff Davis) 07/06/2004 06:41 PM
Ziff Davis - Saying that poorly made software costs enterprises more than $22 billion a year, the company's Rational division plans to standardize its automated software quality tools on an open-source platform.

Eclipse To Pursue Open-Source Tools For
Parallel Computing (TechWeb)

Eclipse To Pursue Open-Source Tools For
Parallel Computing (TechWeb) 04/15/2005 04:48 AM
TechWeb - Effort will allow tools for building parallel-processing applications to work together.

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...

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group 05/07/2004 04:33 PM
A key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the legal standing of open-source software.

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life 06/23/2004 08:27 PM
As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! — here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So there.)...

Open source opportunity, open source
risk

Open source opportunity, open source
risk 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the ArsDigita flameout, Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the risk, of open source as a business model. ...

Open source process for open source
development

Open source process for open source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board of directors: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer. (via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)

From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

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.

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community 05/05/2004 04:06 AM
About a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification, addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and privileges that we associate with open source software.

Open source process for closed source
development

Open source process for closed source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

IBM Adopts Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.

IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing and testing new technology.

Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company. These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research and Global Services, he said."

Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the so called open source development process have they built into the Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different definitions of the open source development process (via Ross Gardler).

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.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model. 02/18/2004 10:41 PM
Pi ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business Model. Interesting.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal, and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open Source.

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks 04/12/2005 08:07 PM
Accessible through common Web browsers, the collaboration platform lets users share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and documents originating from both proprietary and open-source systems.

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware 12/19/2003 11:45 AM
MSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.

Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's own website-."

Update: Yoz points out that the patch has been patched. Link (via /.)

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter 07/20/2004 11:14 AM
One frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in Mozilla (keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has remained unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse interaction with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system unusable and that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers and not dealt with for at least two years - when there are more examples like this that make using Open Source software a pain, what do you do?

Are you one of the few people with the time and money and expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the problem?

Do we have it "too good" and these niggles are, by comparison to the rest of the world's computer users (Windows), absolute peanuts?

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com) 08/03/2004 10:28 AM
washingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to convince the general public that the Linux operating system is becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention 08/09/2004 12:52 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 9 2004 5:11AM GMT

Open source cracks publishing wide open

Open source cracks publishing wide open 06/17/2004 11:24 AM
Once upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations. Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat. Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle, are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source 06/16/2004 11:32 AM
The White Rabbit has beckoned us down the wrong rabbit hole. Much has been made about the open source revolution, and with good reason. The open source development model produces superior software. But, in my estimation, the real promise of open source lies not in open source, but rather in open distribution. Here's why ...
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