Open Source / GPL

Jerome Glisse announced today that a small team of X.Org developers has managed to provide the initial support for ATI R500-based cards (ATI Radeon X1300 up to X1600 at the time) by reverse…

Linux leader Linus Torvalds has finally found something that could convince him that the forthcoming version 3 of the General Public License is worth adopting: open-source Solaris.

"If Sun…

The hidden cost and complexity of open source is still a key barrier to adoption for many CIOs and large enterprises.

Ian Cohen, Associated Newspapers CIO - and recently voted one of the UK…

Goodness, didn't Microsoft just spit in Richard Stallman's eye?

The GPL creator's attempts to stop Microsoft from cutting any more of those patent-protection deals like the one it cut with…

Zenoss Inc., the company behind the most popular open source IT monitoring and management solution on Sourceforge.net, today released the next major version of Zenoss Core, version 2.0. The new…

While not exactly a ringing endorsement of the new version of the GPLv3 final draft, Linus Torvalds says it's "a hell of a lot better than the disaster that were the earlier drafts."

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"Personally I think it's [Microsoft-Novell deal] a bad idea and that Novell are going to get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed to keep the software free, if it fails…

Speaking to UNI on the sidelines of a seminar on "Open Document Format(ODF) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)" organised by Confederation of Indian Industry, State IT Minister Debesh Das…

Are the political wranglings and brash anti-commercialism of the Free Software Foundation helping to dig the GPL's grave? Long-time free software advocate William Hurley, better known as "whurley…

SourceForge today said it has teamed-up with Wikispaces to integrate wikis directly into SourceForge.net, the world’s largest repository of open source software. The addition of wiki…