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Microsoft Rebuilds Open Source Sandcastle

"Microsoft is apparently serious about its efforts to adhere to the letter of the Open Source Definition and is now set to relaunch its Sandcastle effort as a result. Nearly a month ago Microsoft pulled the Sandcastle project from its CodePlex site because it was listed as being open source (under the OSI approved Ms-PL) when in fact it wasn't because it didn't adhere to the licensing terms of open source. Sandcastle which is a documentation compiler for managed class libraries did not have source code open and available for download.

Microsoft's Annual Report Reveals OSS Mistakes

mjasay writes "Microsoft's most recent annual report suggests that the company is increasingly coming to grips with open source, yet also seems determined to perpetuate myths about open source that poorly serve it and its shareholders. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has suggested before that 'free software means no free soda' for Microsoft employees; but this is perhaps the first time that Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a public document. In the annual report, Microsoft makes two primary false claims about open source: 1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights; and 2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.

Ramji Says Microsofts Heart Is in Open Source

Microsoft’s open source man, Sam Ramji, told Sun Microsystems’ Barton George in a podcast during the O’Reilly Open Source Conference last week that the heart of Microsoft is in the middle of its open source lab and activities. Ramji talks about Microsoft’s relationship with the Samba project, the work the company is doing to improve interoperability with Linux and Solaris, and the licenses that Microsoft submitted for certification by the Open Source Initiative, among other things.

Actuate Initiates Open Source Advisory Board

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced the formation of an Open Source Advisory Board. Open Source technology industry luminaries Julie Hanna Farris, a seasoned open source technology entrepreneur and Andrew Aitken, CEO of the Olliance Group, the leading open source management consultancy, are founding members of the board. The board’s mission is to reinforce and extend the leadership and innovation of Actuate’s open source business model, which combines the key elements of open source with the best of enterprise software and to further Actuate’s community contributions and activities.

Entries Invited for the 2009 Open Source Business Award

NUREMBERG, Germany, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Headquartered in Nuremberg, Open Source Business Foundation e.V. (http://www.osbf.de), the European network of the open source sector, is now inviting entries for the 2009 Open Source Business Award. The OSBA is the largest European business plan competition, and is open to all companies, consortia, public authorities and private individuals concerned with innovative solutions that are based on open source software. Participants have until November 30, 2008 to submit their business plans and concepts to win prize money totaling EUR 78,000, coaching offerings by established experts and venture capital financing. The awards ceremony will be held on January 28, 2009, during the "Open Source Meets Business" congress, which publishers Heise Verlag are staging in cooperation with OSBF in Nuremberg.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — July 15, 2008 — Ingres Corporation, a provider of open source database management software and support services, announces that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year's Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2008--Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year’s Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Open-Source Software: Evolving Toward Broader Acceptance

Open source is assessed for more than half of businesses software acquisitions, according to Saugatuck Technology, a research and consulting firm. A CIO.com survey conducted in April showed that 53 percent of respondents were already using open-source applications in their enterprises and that 44 percent considered open-source applications equally during acquisition processes with proprietary applications. While this may surprise some, most businesses no longer carry the negative perceptions once associated with open-source solutions. The software is in use in some of the world's largest corporations and governments, in some of the most intensive application environments. In addition, open source is easy to acquire within many organizations compared to commercial solutions.

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater...

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code SAN MATEO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify Software, Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for business software assurance, released today its Open Source Security Study which reveals that the most widely-used open source software packages for the enterprise are exposing users to significant and unnecessary business risk. The study validates that Open Source Software (OSS) development communities have yet to adopt a secure development process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities unaddressed.

Study Says Open Source Software a Security Risk

chareverie writes "Fortify Software released a study where they concluded that open source software poses a large security risk to corporations who have implemented it. They reason this by stating that the fault lies within the open source communities and their failure to adhere to minimum security practices. Fortify Software studied 11 open source software packages, where the application server Tomcat was determined to be the best. The other 10 were found to have poor results, with those being Derby, Geronimo, Hibernate, Hipergate, JBoss, Jonas, OFBiz, OpenCMS, Resin and Struts. Jacob West, manager of Fortify's research group, reminds that purpose of the study was 'not to condemn open source software, but rather to point out that the security practices need to improve because open source adoption by enterprises and governments is growing

Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition

There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jacobsen v. Katzer, No. 2008-1001 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008) easily goes to the top of the charts of this small category. This is a highly significant opinion that will greatly bolster the efforts of the open source community to control the use of open source software according to the terms set out in open source licenses.

Microsoft gives Apache cash to promote open source

Microsoft expanded its support for the open-source community on Friday by giving money to the Apache Software Foundation, the first time it has given money to the long-standing open-source project. Microsoft also said it is contributing code to support a PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) project and committing to offer royalty-free specifications for Windows Server and .Net Framework protocols as part of its expanded support for the open-source community.

Voiceroute execs talk about going (mostly) open source (video)

Voiceroute, a software PBX vendor, originally started as a proprietary software company but went (at least partly) open source earlier this year. In this video, CEO Ming Guang Yong says the company should have moved toward open source "a lot sooner," and explains why. He and CTO Navin Kumar also talk about some of the specific differences between their open source and proprietary versions, including how and where they draw the line between the two, and share their thoughts about dealing with open source developers and building a successful open source development community.

Microsoft's annual report: A study in open-source awareness...and ignorance

In reading through Microsoft's annual report, I am struck by how far the company has come in appreciating the threat that open source brings to Redmond. I'm also shocked by just how ill-informed the company continues to be with regard to open source as a business strategy. Steve Ballmer has revealed this before in his quips about "Open source won't pay our bills," but here Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a public document:

Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's

Microsoft Mends Breach in Open Source Sandcastle

Microsoft has released all of the source code used in its Sandcastle project, which is now published at the CodePlex open source developer's Web site, according to a blog. Sandcastle helps developers of managed class libraries create uniform documentation on their projects, using MSDN style.

Microsoft Mends Breach in Open Source Sandcastle

Microsoft has released all of the source code used in its Sandcastle project, which is now published at the CodePlex open source developer's Web site, according to a blog. Sandcastle helps developers of managed class libraries create uniform documentation on their projects, using MSDN style.

Open Source Census Reveals Trends After More Than 275,000 Installations of Open Source Software Found to Date

The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.

Open Source Census Reveals Trends After More Than 275,000 Installations of Open Source Software Found to Date

BROOMFIELD, CO, Aug 06, 2008 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.

Open Source Census Reveals Trends After More Than 275,000 Installations of Open Source Software Found to Date

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 08/06/08 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.

Microsoft menaced by Open Source

IconMicrosoft . . . complained in its annual report that it was facing increasing pressure from open source companies. It claims they are stealing its ideas and benefiting from its intellectual property. "A number of commercial firms compete with us using an open source business model by modifying and then distributing open source software to end users at nominal cost and earning revenue on complementary services and products." Also see analysis at Microsoft Watch.

Open XML Format SDK

The 2007 Microsoft® Office system introduces a new file format that is based on XML called Open XML Formats. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 all use these formats as the default file format. Open XML formats are useful for developers because they are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Microsoft provides a library for accessing these files as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging namespace. The Open XML Format SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.

Senior Microsoft developer dumps Redmond to embrace open source

Mike Gunderloy spent over a decade consulting for Microsoft, helping to build the Access and Excel versions of Microsoft Office 97 and 2000, as well as SQL Server, C#, and ASP.Net. A series of Microsoft moves, most particularly its "patent land-grab," has pushed Gunderloy away from Microsoft to the point that he's now "100 percent Microsoft-free" and has embraced a variety of open-source projects and programming languages.

Open Source Helps New IT Grads Get Foot in the Door

Yes, some US IT jobs are disappearing, but Linux.com (which shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) has a recent story emphasizing the job advantage that involvement in open source projects can give young programmers who aren't planning to ditch their dreams of making a living in the field. The article focuses on one programmer's experience with Google's Summer of Code, which led directly to her job working on the Drupal content-management system. But the underlying message (that involvement in open source projects provides a background of experience otherwise difficult to obtain because of the chicken-and-egg problem of "experience required" job opportunities) is generalizable to many other forms of open-source involvement. Do you have a job that you landed because of your unpaid open-source programming?

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