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Open source to take over mainstream IT
News Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as community takes certain steps, according to roadmap from Open World Forum.
Tags: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Wikipedia, open source research and development, sustainable development, Floss, software, Open-source Community, Paris, information technology
Open source gathers steam in Malaysia
News Supporters celebrate its growing momentum in Malaysia, where an open source user dismisses studies said to prove the technology costs more.
Tags: Open source, Software licensing
Gates: Security is top priority
News Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has set security as the top priority for the software maker's products, a shift that analysts say can't happen soon enough.
Understand limitations of your online privacy
Blogs Life is about choices. We all make decisions almost every second of our life. Some are menial...should I floss and brush...
Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat
News Community pushing open and free software prepares to defend itself in light of Microsoft's "antagonistic" litigation involving Linux.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Open-source Software, TomTom, open-source leader, software, Linux Community
10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009
Techguide The year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and open source software--from an explosion in the mobile arena to widespread adoption of OpenOffice 3, says industry watcher.
Tags: Open source, Linux, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., KDE, File System, GNOME, Ubuntu, operating system, GNOME 2.24
Mozilla: Firefox license in Ubuntu was 'giant error'
News License agreement has the wrong content, Mozilla's former chief exec says. The code is actually under a free and open source license.
Tags: Web browsers, Open source, Software licensing, Mitchell Baker, EULA, Ubuntu, operating system, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, software
Massive Linux handout set for French schools
News Local government finances project to distribute 64,000 packs of CDs with Linux and with free software for Windows and Mac OSes.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Open-source Alfresco shifts to GPL
News Document management company hopes license change will mean more outside programmer involvement.
Tags: Open source
Commentary: I've got Web search rage
News Looks like online users are looking for love--and everything else--in all the wrong places. A new study shows nearly three quarters of U.S. Internet users expressed a significant amount of rage while doing Web searches.
Open source casts new mold for type design
News The open-source movement gets embraced in the world of font design.
Tags: Programming languages, Open source
Microsoft's OOXML limps through ISO meeting
News The proposed document specification has less than one month left to achieve the 66 percent backing required to make it a full ISO standard.
Tags: XML, Microsoft Office
The Linux developer lifestyle, exposed
News Are open-source developers all sandal-wearing geeks? A new survey reveals a detailed picture of free software developers' motivations and expectations--and even their personal lives.
Developing peer-to-peer applications with Jabber
Techguide Find out how to make use of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol to P2P-enable your applications.
Tags: Java, Software engineering/development, Peer to peer, TCP, Jabber, Connection, F/OSS, P2P, Password, Service Parameter
Open source comes of age
Insight A succession of high-profile patent cases do the open-source movement no harm at all by pushing the issue of software ownership into the mainstream.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Software licensing
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