Open Source / GPL

SourceForge announced the winners of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards in Portland, OR, at an evening celebration held during the OSCON conference. The awards recognize…

A group of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology organizations today announced their support for the open-source development of EPCglobal-compliant Low-Level Reader Protocol (LLRP)…

An e-petition on the Downing Street website has called on parliament to stop the BBC launching its iPlayer to a Windows-only audience.

More than 10,000 people have signed the petition which…

As the CEO of Sweden-based open source database vendor MySQL AB, Marten Mickos knows about the role open source software can play in business and personal computing.

Despite a growing…

"We continue to explore the Linspire/Microsoft affairs and we identify some highly discomforting facts. As we stated in the past, personal benefits were possibly (even probably) part of all those…

Alfresco Software announced the immediate availability of its first-ever global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise.

The Alfresco open source barometer…

"In our recent conversation with Danese Cooper, she brought up how open source is sometimes used as a market disrupter. If I understood her correctly, there are times where competitors are locked…

HP and the MIT Libraries today announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of institutions that use DSpace, an…

Open-Xchange Inc., today announced full-featured collaboration software designed to make it easy for small- and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of the cost benefits of open source…

Linux-based and Unix-based apps are becoming commonplace in the enterprise, but some sectors are still holding out. IDC and Info-Tech explain why our financial institutions are reluctant to take…