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

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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.

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.

.NET Goes Open Source and Catches Mono

.NET Goes Open Source and Catches Mono 05/07/2004 07:04 PM
Novell's Ximian-led Mono tallies 40,000 downloads in first few hours of beta release.

Novell brings .net to open source with
first Mono beta

Novell brings .net to open source with
first Mono beta 05/09/2004 07:59 PM
Computer Weekly May 10 2004 0:08AM GMT

Open source helps Flickr share photos

Open source helps Flickr share photos 02/05/2005 09:14 PM
Flickr, the online photo-sharing Web site, is a good case study on the benefits of open source. The technology that powers Flickr is a catalog of open source tools: Red Hat Linux, the Apache Web server, MySQL databases, PHP, Perl, Smarty templates, Postfix mail gateways, and even ImageMagick to handle the image manipulation.

Open source helps power SIP phone
popularity

Open source helps power SIP phone
popularity 08/02/2004 04:35 AM
VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) is being heavily hyped these days.  Systems come in various sizes, supporting anywhere from 25 to 1,200 users across multiple locations, time zones, and continents, and open source products are available across the spectrum. The reason for adopting VoIP is simple: the cost savings involved with putting voice and data on the same network. The argument for open source in VoIP is similarly simple: solutions that make use of open source software are less expensive than traditional PBX or Centrex systems and proprietary VoIP solutions.

Open source MetaDot helps organic
farmers grow

Open source MetaDot helps organic
farmers grow 04/14/2005 04:54 AM
The Organic Valley farming cooperative had a Web site and email for its member farms, but it desperately needed a corporate-style intranet to facilitate collaboration and better communication. That's where the open source MetaDot project came in, replacing phpWebSite as the sole point of reference for Organic Valley's employees and members. Now that the organization is familiar with open source software, it's finding open source alternatives may be the answer to more software dilemmas.

OSDL Helps Fund New Open-Source Legal
Center

OSDL Helps Fund New Open-Source Legal
Center 02/01/2005 08:56 PM
The new Software Freedom Law Center will help open-source developers fight legal disputes over intellectual property and patent rights.

NewsForge: Open Source Helps Flickr
Share Photos

NewsForge: Open Source Helps Flickr
Share Photos 02/05/2005 09:07 PM
From a new post on PHP Magazine's site today:

Latest Rokland Office Distribution Helps
Spread of Open Source

Latest Rokland Office Distribution Helps
Spread of Open Source 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
As buzz continues to grow about the rise of open source software, one giant question remains. How will people without broadband be able to obtain open source programs? Most all open source releases are only made available for Internet download by their development groups, thus eliminating access to these programs to anyone without an Internet or broadband connection. Rokland LLC has answered this question with their latest release of Rokland Office Suite, version 2.0. This new CD-ROM brings together some of the most popular and most needed open source programs including a full-featured office suite, email client, and antivirus software. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

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.

Speech Code From I.B.M. to Become Open
Source

Speech Code From I.B.M. to Become Open
Source 09/12/2004 09:26 PM
I.B.M. plans to announce that it will contribute some of its speech-recognition software to two open-source software groups.

Speech code from IBM to become open
source

Speech code from IBM to become open
source 09/12/2004 11:59 PM
CNET News.com Sep 13 2004 3:22AM GMT

Open Source Code at Google

Open Source Code at Google 03/27/2005 02:33 AM
Seach Engine Showdown Mar 27 2005 6:05AM GMT

eBay: Better Code For Open Source

eBay: Better Code For Open Source 06/24/2005 10:03 PM
Online marketplace aims to expand ecosystem and bring e-commerce to new devices with the help of its developers.

Get your hands on some open source SSL
VPN code

Get your hands on some open source SSL
VPN code 03/24/2005 05:13 AM
There is a lot of open source code out there, including one for SSL VPNs. Called SSL-Explorer, it is available free from SourceForge and runs on Microsoft and Linux platforms.

Columnist: Open Source the Leaked Code

Columnist: Open Source the Leaked Code 02/15/2004 10:31 AM

Why Microsoft Should Open Source the Leaked Source: From the "never-gonna-happen" department, this guy says that Microsoft should just open-source the code that was leaked last week. He makes a good case, but there's no chance Bill would actually go for it.

Why not make lemonade out of lemons by doing the unthinkable: Redistribute the complete NT4 and Windows 2000 code base via either a fully OSS-certified or quasi-open-source license on the MSDN web site?

Sound crazy? Maybe. But think about the positive implications of a fully Microsoft-sanctioned complete release of this code...

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Code Reading: The Open Source
Perspective

Code Reading: The Open Source
Perspective 03/14/2005 05:03 PM

IBM offers Cloudscape as open-source
code

IBM offers Cloudscape as open-source
code 08/03/2004 05:47 PM
IBM said it will donate its Cloudscape database software code, valued at $85 million, as an open-source project, with the goal of spurring Java application development and creating business opportunities for its infrastructure software products.

IBM offers Cloudscape as open source
code

IBM offers Cloudscape as open source
code 08/03/2004 11:01 AM
IBM Corp. has found a new home for the Cloudscape database software it picked up in 2001 through its acquisition of Informix Corp. The company plans to announce Tuesday that it will give Cloudscape to the Apache Software Foundation, which will oversee Cloudscape as an open-source project.

Intel To Open-Source Next-Gen BIOS Code

Intel To Open-Source Next-Gen BIOS Code 06/01/2004 05:20 PM
Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it plans to release the "foundation" code of its Tiano next-generation BIOS code as part of an open-source license.

Users laud open source VPN code

Users laud open source VPN code 04/14/2005 10:07 PM

NASA Prepares to Open Source Code

NASA Prepares to Open Source Code 02/12/2004 10:14 PM

For Open-Source Code, The Future Is In
Applications

For Open-Source Code, The Future Is In
Applications 04/09/2005 07:44 PM
Information Week Apr 9 2005 10:51PM GMT

Open-source code specialist gets
investment

Open-source code specialist gets
investment 07/26/2004 05:48 PM
Black Duck pulls in $5 million, which will be used to hire new personnel and bring its ProtexIP service to market.

IBM donates code to open-source project

IBM donates code to open-source project 11/18/2003 07:47 PM
ZDNet Nov 18 2003 6:49PM ET

Commentary: If only Cisco code had been
open source

Commentary: If only Cisco code had been
open source 05/17/2004 03:02 PM
The 15 May 2004 theft and publishing of the source code for Cisco's IOS router firmware could mean a wave of exploits against the critical router infrastructure of the Internet will be on its way. If that happens, it will be because Cisco ignored one of the iron rules of network security -- and experts the world over will be muttering "if only IOS had been open source."

Code exchanges: We got that open-source
feelin'

Code exchanges: We got that open-source
feelin' 06/14/2004 06:46 AM
ZDNet Jun 14 2004 11:18AM GMT

MySQL & Open Source Code Quality

MySQL & Open Source Code Quality 12/23/2003 10:37 AM

MySQL & Open Source Code Quality

MySQL & Open Source Code Quality 12/23/2003 12:59 PM
Slashdot Dec 23 2003 12:41PM ET

Amazon helps with number portability

Amazon helps with number portability 05/03/2004 03:07 PM
Amazon's phone-sales business unit has added a HOWTO on number-portability, and a service to help you keep your number when you change mobile carriers.

Transferring your cell phone number is easy when you order from Amazon.com. You won't have to wait in line at a store while your number is transferred from your previous carrier to your new one. And, in some cases, you will be assigned a temporary phone number for your new phone so that you can use it until your transfer is completed (you can even forward your calls from your current phone to your new phone in the interim). Best of all, when you buy a cell phone from Amazon.com and transfer your number, you will still qualify for all of our great rebates and discounts.

Link (via MobileWhack)

Briefly: Open-source code specialist
gets investment

Briefly: Open-source code specialist
gets investment 07/26/2004 05:48 PM
roundup Plus: Judge protects defendant's Web site...IBM upgrades supercomputer switch...SCO appoints software head...Blue Titan adds scale to SOA toolkit.

Best Free Open Source Cocoa Code To
Learn From?

Best Free Open Source Cocoa Code To
Learn From? 03/06/2004 02:03 AM

Open source programmer blesses "ripoff"
of his code

Open source programmer blesses "ripoff"
of his code 07/13/2004 04:58 AM
Jaleco, a Gameboy Advance cartridge vendor, released a vintage game-pack that included a public-domain NES emulator written by Loopy. They didn't credit him in the release, and a lot of hackers and gamers were affronted on Loopy's behalf, but Loopy doesn't care. As Waxy says, "his message embodies the spirit of the open-source movement":

Let someone take an idea, do something cool with it, and not have to hesitate because of legal nitpickings. If a company can take something that I made, and turn it into a product that other people enjoy, I'm all the happier for it. Why should I care if someone else profits off of something I made? It's already free.

Demanding that someone pay homage to my work is just ego-stroking, and I'm not into that. Sure, as a courtesy it would have been nice for Jaleco to tell me "hey, thanks for the source", and they didn't, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it, because I didn't write PocketNES so people would pat me on the back.

I wrote it so people could have fun playing old games. And that's exactly what's happening here. Mission accomplished.

I'm with him. After all, this guy used the holes in copyright to make an emulator that relied on Nintendo's (and its suppliers') IP. Li nk (Thanks, Zed!)

Wind River Donates Code to Open Source

Wind River Donates Code to Open Source 03/14/2005 05:55 PM

Open-source advocate: Release Java code

Open-source advocate: Release Java code 02/13/2004 06:44 PM
A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code.

Open source and the advancement of
automated code analysis

Open source and the advancement of
automated code analysis 06/25/2004 12:56 AM
Back in January I mentioned Agitar Software in a column on software testing. The backstory was that Agitar got in touch with me after reading my review of Compuwar e's DevPartner Studio. I had used NLucene, the .NET port of the Java-based Lucene search engine, as a benchmark to explore that product's debugging and source-code analysis features. Agitar's development lead, Kent Mitchell, picked up on the idea. He fed Lucene's Java sources into his test automation tool, Agitator, and used Lucene to demonstrate his product. ...

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.

Intel to open source next-generation
BIOS code

Intel to open source next-generation
BIOS code 06/01/2004 08:30 PM
Intel will be partnering with CollabNet to release its next-generation BIOS replacement project, codenamed Tiano, under the Common Public License (CPL). In particular, the company plans to release its firmware foundational code along with a driver kit.
Grok Description matches for Portability of Mono code helps to bridge Microsoft/open source gap
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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.

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.

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).

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.

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 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 /.)

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.

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?

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

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.

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 ...

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 Arms for Open-Source News

Open Arms for Open-Source News 07/22/2004 06:17 AM
A California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you think it's news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up. By Daniel Terdiman.

Open-Xchange Server goes open source

Open-Xchange Server goes open source 08/04/2004 09:46 AM
LINUXWORLD -- Open-Xchange Server, the Microsoft Exchange Server workalike, is being released under the GPL at the end of August. Open-Xchange Server is the engine behind Novell/SUSE's Openexchange Server, and is produced by Netline Internet Service. Netline CEO Frank Hoberg will be in the Novell booth during most of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, displaying what a company press release describes as "the industry's top-selling Linux-based groupware, collaboration, and messaging application."

Open source and visible source

Open source and visible source 06/08/2004 09:11 AM

Zope Corp.'s layered strategy of engagement with open source and visible-source communities is a compelling blend of the strengths of free and commercial software development. In two previous columns, Open source citizenship and Giving back to open source, I explored the tendency of enterprises to fork open source projects rather than join them. Pedhazur suggests that a commercial entity supporting both an open source base and a visible-source layered product can reduce the need to fork. By outsourcing code enhancements, the argument goes, an enterprise can enjoy single-throat-to-choke control without seceding from a project's community. It remains to be seen how broadly this model can apply, but in cases where it does, what's not to like? [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

In this two-minute clip, Zope Corp.'s Chairman Hadar Pedhazur describes the visible source model as a middle-ground option between the few large open source projects, whose direction an enterprise cannot easily influence, and the many smaller ones that enterprises can influence, but typically fork in order to do so. ...

Open season on open source

Open season on open source 05/21/2004 01:07 AM

Microsoft open to open source

Microsoft open to open source 06/24/2004 12:49 PM
Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past. Money-makers like the company's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite aren't on the table -- or anywhere near it. But the company has so far released two software-development tools to the open-source community, and it wants to continue the practice, a Microsoft platform manager told an industry group this week.

Microsoft open to open-source

Microsoft open to open-source 06/24/2004 08:17 AM

Wired News: Open Arms for Open-Source
News

Wired News: Open Arms for Open-Source
News 07/23/2004 03:07 AM
turns content control to the people .. Open Arms for Open-Source News

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Second source, not open source, is the
key

Second source, not open source, is the
key 06/16/2004 09:56 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 16 2004 2:16PM GMT

..::LvL Open Source

..::LvL Open Source 03/15/2003 07:15 AM
Effortless FreeBSD updates

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

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