Second Life's Open Source Fairy Tale
Developers have no guarantees when they open source an application. In many cases, they don't know who will use it, nor do they know how things will progress.
The fairy tale version is that…
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 3 Released
Feisty Fawn Herd 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04.
Pre-releases of Feisty are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system, or anyone who is not comfortable running into…
Linux Genuine Advantage
According to an independent study conducted by some scientists, many users of Linux are running non-Genuine versions of their operating system. This puts them at the disadvantage of having their…
Declaring Open Source
The U.S. Code is the operating system of our system of government, the line-by-line instructions that govern our federal government. The code contains provisions for pretty much everything you can…
Zend seeks a sustainable open-source model
Open-source software company Zend Technologies, hoping to double its revenue this year, says it will narrow its focus to big business and Web 2.0-style start-ups, according to incoming CEO Harold…
BBC web TV revamp: Linux and Apple are in
The BBC has announced its web TV plan will provisionally go ahead, despite concern from media watchdog Ofcom over how the launch would affect the UK's commercial telly.
The BBC Trust, which…
Aonix Shatters Ada Price Barrier for Linux
Aonix, a provider of solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, announced a new “zero-cost” license model for its ObjectAda for Linux product. Recognizing the expectations of the…
Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90)
Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of…
Getting to the root of open source
Part of the early received wisdom about open-source was that it couldn't last: why would people donate their time and expertise to creating something for no return?
The question interested…
Open source ID projects link up with Microsoft
Developers with the Bandit and Eclipse Higgins projects will demonstrate a new open source tool for authenticating users across multiple ID management systems at next week's RSA Conference in San…