Open Source / GPL

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Soft sell for open source apps

Enterprise software vendors that use open source business models may be few and far between, but they are out there. I recently spoke to Peter Schroer, president and founder of Aras, about his…

Open source is good for the economy

Europe's lawmakers should "correct" policies that "implicitly or explicitly" favour the use of proprietary software, according to a newly published report from the European Commission (EC).

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DRM, GPLv3 just 'hot air': Linus Torvalds

Digital rights management and the General Public License cause a lot of 'hot air' to be exchanged but they are not a 'big deal', according to the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds.

DRM,…

Using open source as a marketing ploy

This morning News.com is running an article (Taking the plunge into open source) on how proprietary software companies are leveraging (bastardizing?) open source practices for some of their new…

Open Source software takes on VMware

InnoTek today released VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), marking an important milestone in the development of PC virtualization software. VirtualBox OSE is the first professional PC…

Taking the plunge into open source

More software companies are finding that the best way to make money with software is to give it away, cherry-picking open-source software practices for commercial gain.

On Monday, a small…

The MVPs of Open Source

Who are the MVPs of open source? Are they the advocates? The maintainers? The stalwart community members? The CEOs of open source software companies?

Or is it someone else entirely?

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