Open Source / GPL

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Critical Open Source Software Projects Receive 6,000 Bug Fixes in First Year of Coverity Scan Site

Coverity, Inc., makers of the world’s most advanced source code analysis solution, today celebrated the one year anniversary of the scan.coverity.com project that was started under an open source…

Collax updates its entire product family

Collax unveiled updates to each of its server solutions, now Collax Business Server 4.1.0, Collax Security Gateway 4.2.0 and Collax Open-Xchange Server 5.1.0 respectively.

All solutions…

SXSW Day Three - Revisting Open Source Business Models

The panel was fairly freeform. They started by polling the audience a bit - asking people what kinds of questions they wanted to hear about. Broke out pretty clearly that there were lots of folks…

GoDaddy.com Backs Open Source Community

GoDaddy.com is giving back to the Internet community by supporting open source applications with cash donations of $10,000 each.

Joomla, a Content Management System and Simple Machines…

Will an open source router replace your Cisco router?

Vyatta is an open source company that hopes to take the XORP (i.e., extensible open source router platform) and make it a commercially viable, enterprise-ready product. Pronounced "vee-atta,"…

MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free

"MIT Press has released its book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software as a free PDF download. The book is a collection of research essays covering topics such as open source motivation…

Will Glassfish Validate Schwartz’ Open Source Strategy?

The beta release of Glassfish Version 2 is a good place for evaluating Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz' open source strategy.

Glassfish is a Java-based application server. As such it competes…

Why GPLv3 says additional permissions are removable

As with any copyright licence, software developers who use any version of the GPL can also grant additional permissions to recipients for code that they hold the copyright of. That is, they can…

Big Vendors Lend Credibility to Open Source

Government agencies are no strangers to open source, according to an FCW.com piece published today. At first blush, we imagined part of the attraction lies in cost savings, just like it does for…

Walmart.com: Open Source Powers Enterprise Mashups

Eugene Ciurana, one of Walmart.com’s most influential platform architects, says that large F100 companies are setting their future enterprise IT strategies using many more open standards and Open…