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Politicians should stay out of Net policing

Insight perspective The law cannot hope to keep up with the Internet, and just hampers innovation, says industry expert.

Friday, July 31 2009 02:15 PM

Tags: Web sites, Legal, Government, Domain Name, OSI, monitoring, network, Internet Service Provider, Internet, ISO

How do you start a network audit?

Insight Consultants and administrators are often tasked with auditing a network, which can be a tedious process. When doing an audit for the first time, the most difficult part is getting started, so here are some step-by-step recommendations.

Friday, December 10 2004 03:09 PM

Tags: IT Management, Networking, Security

Doing the VoIP security groundwork

Insight What you need to consider before beginning a Voice over IP project.

Friday, March 11 2005 11:23 AM

Tags: VoIP/IP telephony

Microsoft launches open source blog platform

News Oxite is aimed at developers and not designed to compete with the likes of WordPress or Movable Type, according to the software maker.

Wednesday, December 10 2008 08:34 AM

Tags: Server platforms, Content management, Web logs, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Developer, Movable Type, blogging software, OSI, Oxite

Red Hat exec takes over Open Source Initiative

News Group seeking to become more influential in open-source matters sees second change of guard in less than a month.

Monday, March 07 2005 09:19 AM

Tags: Open source

OSI co-founder attacks Microsoft over OOXML fiasco

News Eric Raymond warns that the Microsoft Permissive License may be refused OSI approval following the OOXML debacle.

Tuesday, September 04 2007 09:14 AM

Tags: Web services, Standards

Microsoft aims for open source certification

News Software giant is to submit its shared-source licenses to the Open Source Initiative, but expects the OSI to pay for its 'generosity'.

Tuesday, July 31 2007 12:00 PM

Tags: Open source

Open-source overseer proposes paring license list

News OSI head suggests that licenses should meet three new requirements to receive open-source seal of approval.

Thursday, March 03 2005 11:15 AM

Tags: Open source

Open source will solve RFID's image problem

News By using open standards and licensing, small businesses could have more input into the development of the radio-tagging technology.

Tuesday, November 08 2005 03:13 PM

Tags: RFID, Open source

Open-source group leader steps down

News Eric Raymond, one of the most influential members of the open-source community, leaves his post as president of OSI.

Wednesday, February 02 2005 10:44 AM

Tags: Open source

Intel to stop using open-source license

News  The chipmaker says it will discontinue an open-source license used to govern some of its software.

Friday, April 01 2005 09:53 AM

Tags: Open source

Open-source board eyes fewer licenses

Insight The Open Source Initiative is taking aim at the "proliferation problem" as the number of open-source licenses grows.

Thursday, February 17 2005 11:19 AM

Tags: Open source

Open-source group to corral licenses

Program The Open Source Initiative has begun an effort to pare down the number of open-source licenses in widespread use.

Thursday, April 07 2005 10:01 AM

Tags: Open source

HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to deal

News Boycotting the patent system means "leaving oneself exposed for absolutely no good reason," says HP's Linux vice president.

Wednesday, February 16 2005 10:16 AM

Tags: Software engineering/development, Software licensing

Sun unveils first details on open Java

Techguide In an unexpected move, vendor decides to license open source Java under the GPL. First batch of source codes are also released.

Monday, November 13 2006 04:01 PM

Tags: Java, Open source