Open Source / GPL

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Money Can't Buy An Open Source Community

As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source…

Legally Speaking: What GPLv3 Means for the Microsoft-Novell Pact

With Antoinette (Toni) Tease, a registered patent attorney who practices in the areas of intellectual property and technology law. She currently serves as chair of the information technology (IT)…

Open source goes live

The Veterans Health Administration hospitals were among the first in the United States to embrace IT-assisted health care in a major way. So it was a much anticipated moment when last week the…

Spending on open source support services in Canada to soar

The market for open source support services is going to boom over the next five years, according to a recent Gartner survey. The study of organizations in geographies around the world – including…

Mindquarry Forms Up With an Open Source Team Software

Mindquarry offers the first Open Source alternative to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server or IBM's Lotus Connections. The free download is available at www.mindquarry.com. Mindquarry eases especially…

The commie smear against open source

Often proprietary companies trot out their FUD that open source is somehow socialist, communist, as pink as its programmers' underwear. Here's the truth.

The commie smear against open…

How Open Is "Open"? – Industry Luminaries Join the Debate

Need an "open source" company nowadays merely be "a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company"?

Nat Torkington raised this week the very real question of…

Open-Xchange Deploys Largest Open Source Software Customer Win in History

Open-Xchange Inc., announced today that it has signed a partnership with 1&1 Internet, the world’s largest web hosting company, to provide hosted email and collaboration services based upon…

Open-source Replicator?

The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop…

National Open Source Centre launches today in the Houses of Parliament

The National Open Centre (NOC) is launched today by John Hemming MP, in the Houses of Parliament.

The NOC will help the UK to benefit from open source and open standards by developing…