Open Source in Washington, DC
"One of the interesting topics that came up from a few of the Government folks was security of open source. They really wanted to understand how open source compared to commercial software from a…
The Real Meaning of GNU GPLv3
Now that the final version of the GNU General Public Licence version 3 has been released, the in-depth analysis of its implications can begin. Two of the first commentaries to be published have…
What The New GPL Means For Enterprise IT
GPLv3 looks good for customers: It increases user protection from patents and lock-in, while clauses that could have affected Web services have been dropped.
fter two years of consultation…
KDE 4.0-alpha2 Released
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment. This release comes straight out of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland…
Open-source evolves from 'nerdy' to notable
Last January, Host Europe, a company that runs the Web sites for 120,000 businesses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, secured an unlikely supplier for the open-source software it uses to run…
Novell's Response to SCO's Opposition to Novell's Evidentiary Objections
Novell's Reponse to SCO's Opposition to Novell's Evidentiary Objections to SCO's Exhibits Submitted in Connection with Summary Judgment Motions [PDF]. In this filing, Novell makes three points:…
Joint releases to jolt open source: Shuttleworth
Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has declared more publicity would be generated for open source software if the three large desktop projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org agreed on a…
Motorola's "open source" Service Availability Framework is not open source
Motorola released their "open source" Service Availability Framework. However, The license of OpenSAF isn't really open source after all - it's a mixture of GPL and MPL, with extra parts aimed at…
Steve Wozniak: Open Source good, DRM dying
"Steve Wozniak just weighed in on DRM, saying "it doesn't make much sense if these things are going to have DRM forever." In this great new interview, he complains that even now, only six songs on…
Mandriva adds a semantic layer to the KDE 4 desktop
On the occasion of aKademy 2007, the annual conference of KDE developers and users, Mandriva is proud to announce together with the NEPOMUK partners and the KDE community that the NEPOMUK-KDE…