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Open source software had its origins in the free software movement. By now, most open source users understand that free refers to freedom, not to price. The new lesson is that the freedom belongs to the software, not to users. You are not free to do whatever you want with the open source software and may find yourself in a legal fight if what you do restricts the freedom of the software. Many of the things that for-profit companies strive for end up limiting some software's freedom. Any activity that leverages software for business advantage is likely to restrict the software's freedom, and the growing use of open source software by for-profit companies has been a growing irritant for free software advocates.
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via LWN @ 4:55 8th Jun
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Open Source Software Continually Improving According to Research from Coverity(TM) Joint Venture With U.S. Department of Homeland Security New Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008 Shows 16% Reduction in Static Analysis Defect Density Across 250 Popular Open Source Projects Over 2 Year Period SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity(TM), Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced the availability of the Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008. The Coverity Scan site was developed with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of the federal government's 'Open Source Hardening Project.' The report is based on 2 years of analysis of more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from over 250 popular open source projects with Coverity Prevent(TM), the industry-leading
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via Reuters @ 9:30 20th May
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BROOMFIELD, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/16/08 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced that after its first two months, more than 220,000 open source package/project installations have been discovered. Additionally several organizations have joined The Open Source Census at various levels, including: ActiveState, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft, Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, and OSAlt.com (Open Source as Alternative).
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via AEC News Room @ 12:10 16th Jun
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Computerworld Australia — How can something given away for free end up being the world's largest industry of its type? Well, according to open source content management vendor Alfresco CEO John Powell the value of open source is not what it generates, but what it saves, and that's worth billions.
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via CIO Magazine @ 10:53 20th May
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Commercial open source software has arrived. There have been commercial sponsors of open source projects for a long time, but the recent spate of high-price (for open source, at least) acquisitions of companies with open source products at the core of their business has made a splash in the technology industry. In addition, Sun’s convulsions into the open source world have left the Java landscape decisively in open source territory.
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via Java Developers Journal @ 9:39 21st Jun
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Microsoft has evolved in its stance toward open source, but its current hiccup with the Sandcastle project calls into question just how well it understands the obligations open source imposes. Microsoft created its CodePlex site to host open-source software, and has been careful to abide by open-source rules, submitting its licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval.
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via CNET News.com @ 19:02 5th Jun
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Microsoft's been getting some flack for posting a project called Sandcastle on their Codeplex open source site but not including the source code for the project. Ops, that is a rather "open" definition of open source software. Either it was just one of those goof ups that happen in big companies or someone on the Sandcastle team really don't know that open source licensed software is supposed to include source code. I'd guess it was a goof up. Whatever the reason, Microsoft's learned a hard lesson very quickly; the open source community does a good job of policing policy violations, and they are just waiting for Microsoft to make a mistake.
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via NetworkWorld @ 8:03 7th Jun
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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.
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via Database Journal @ 9:41 18th Jul
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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 years 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.
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via Macro World Investor @ 12:42 15th Jul
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"Most Open Source Projects (Not the namesake open source projects) are released under an OSI approved license. The open source definition of OSI states that 'Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria'. It goes on to describe 10 items under this. Item #6 states that 'The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.'
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via Linux Today @ 16:23 28th Jun
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Dimdim (www.dimdim.com), the world's free open source web meeting company, today announced a new release of its web meeting software specifically for the open source community. The new version, called Dimdim Open Source Community Edition Version 3.5, nicknamed "Eagle," is completely free and available for immediate download. Dimdim "Eagle" is the world's first unified communications platform specifically created for and by the open source community. To date, this community has downloaded Dimdim's free open source web meeting software over 230,000 times.
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via Macro World Investor @ 22:43 19th May
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PRNewswire/ -- Funambol Inc., the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it has enhanced its native open source wireless sync app for iPhone 2.0. The app uses the new iPhone 2.0 SDK and enables users to wirelessly sync PIM data with a wide variety of consumer and enterprise email systems and clients. The free open source software will be available when iPhone 2.0 ships and the App Store opens, scheduled for July. iPhone users will be able to access the sync software via the free myFUNAMBOL portal. In contrast to MobileMe announced yesterday, myFUNAMBOL provides free syncing of PIM data and mobile email for mass market users. When the new Funambol iPhone open source software ships in July, it will initially sync contacts, followed by a version that also syncs calendars and notes.
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via Earthtimes.org @ 7:51 10th Jun
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Funambol Inc., the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it has enhanced its native open source wireless sync app for iPhone 2.0. The app uses the new iPhone 2.0 SDK and enables users to wirelessly sync PIM data with a wide variety of consumer and enterprise email systems and clients. The free open source software will be available when iPhone 2.0 ships and the App Store opens, scheduled for July. iPhone users will be able to access the sync software via the free myFUNAMBOL portal. In contrast to MobileMe announced yesterday, myFUNAMBOL provides free syncing of PIM data and mobile email for mass market users. When the new Funambol iPhone open source software ships in July, it will initially sync contacts, followed by a version that also syncs
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 11:46 10th Jun
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Funambol Inc., the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it has enhanced its native open source wireless sync app for iPhone 2.0. The app uses the new iPhone 2.0 SDK and enables users to wirelessly sync PIM data with a wide variety of consumer and enterprise email systems and clients. The free open source software will be available when iPhone 2.0 ships and the App Store opens, scheduled for July. iPhone users will be able to access the sync software via the free myFUNAMBOL portal. In contrast to MobileMe announced yesterday, myFUNAMBOL provides free syncing of PIM data and mobile email for mass market users. When the new Funambol iPhone open source software ships in July, it will initially sync contacts, followed by a version that also syncs
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via Macro World Investor @ 7:51 10th Jun
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Google often gets a bad rap when it comes to “open source citizenship” because many don’t think the company gives back as much open source code as it uses. And its lack of support for the Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3 doesn’t help matters. But as News.com writer Stephen Shankland found, Google’s open source program manager, Chris DiBona, isn’t all that worried about what open source businesses or open source evangelists think about Google. His philosophy is to focus on the open source developers:
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via IT Business Edge @ 20:46 28th May
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SAN FRANCISCO – May 20, 2008 – Coverity™, Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced the availability of the Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008. The Coverity Scan site was developed with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of the federal governments ‘Open Source Hardening Project. The report is based on 2 years of analysis of more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from over 250 popular open source projects with Coverity Prevent™, the industry-leading static source code analysis solution.
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via Embedded Computing Design @ 0:09 21st May
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity(TM), Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced the availability of the Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008. The Coverity Scan site was developed with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of the federal government's 'Open Source Hardening Project.' The report is based on 2 years of analysis of more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from over 250 popular open source projects with Coverity Prevent(TM), the industry-leading static source code analysis solution.
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via Macro World Investor @ 8:32 20th May
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You cannot say something’s good or bad unless you benchmark or compare it against something else. According to theOpen Source Security Report 2008 Linus’s Law, “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, a mentality which when combined with static code analysis of the most popular and widely used open source projects such as Firefox, Linux and PHP and benchmark it against 250 other open source projects, can truly make an impact. Is open source software security improving? Coverity’s recently released Open Source Report 2008, indicates it is.
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via ZDNet @ 21:58 26th May
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rsmiller510 writes "Last week Adobe surprised a few people with the announcement that it was including Alfresco content management services as part of its LiveCycle Enterprise Suite Update 1 package. The surprise was two-fold, that Adobe felt it was necessary to add content management services at all, and that it chose open source vendor Alfresco as its content management partner. I spoke to Alfresco CEO John Powell to get his perspective on the pact and how it can help push open source into the enterprise mainstream. Powell is understandably excited by this arrangement, and one of the main reasons, he says, is because the Adobe partnership gives his company credibility with companies that might otherwise not even sniff at an open source vendor.
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via Slashdot @ 2:34 28th Jun
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ActiveState released a white paper today that explores and debunks some common misconceptions about open source software and, in particular, dynamic languages like Perl, Tcl and Python. Entitled "10 Myths About Running Open Source Software in Your Business", the white paper was written by open source experts at ActiveState, a leading provider of tools and business solutions for open source dynamic languages. The white paper is available for free download at http://www.activestate.com/business_solutions/ten_myths.pdf.
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via Linux PR @ 21:14 17th Jul
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aacc1313 writes "An article that details how Open Source is being hijacked by Microsoft and the sort via 'Shared Source' licenses and how Open Source licenses have become so much more confusing. From the article, "The confusion stems from the fact that Microsoft's 'shared source' program includes three proprietary licenses as well, whose names are similar in some ways to the open-source licenses. Thus, while the Microsoft Reciprocal License has been approved by OSI, the Microsoft Limited Reciprocal License (Ms-LRL) is not, because it allows users to modify and redistribute the software only on the Windows platform" and "The 'shared source' program was and is Microsoft's way of fighting the open source world, allowing customers to inspect Microsoft source code without giving those customers the right to modify or redistribute the code.
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via Slashdot @ 14:20 12th May
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SAN FRANCISCO and REDWOOD CITY, CA, June 11, 2008 -- KnowledgeTree, the leading provider of commercial open source document management software, and Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 open source messaging software, today announced a new Code Sniper project to their respective global open source communities. The project is set to recognize and reward community members who write software to sync content between mobile phones and the KnowledgeTree document management application using the Funambol mobile open source platform.
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via Linux PR @ 22:16 11th Jun
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In 2005, Alfresco was the first open source software company in the UK to capture venture funding, for its collection of enterprise document management applications. John Powell, formerly the COO of Business Objects, and John Newton, founder of Documentum, got together to launch Alfresco because they wanted to create a business that would have "global reach," according to Powell. Right from the start, Powell and Newton knew that the best way to do that was to create and market an open source product.
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via Linux.com @ 6:21 12th Jul
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Back in 2005, an ATOS survey found that 60 percent of businesses were planning to use some form of open source software in their business. Since that survey, open source software products have been widely adopted. Open source Web site development tools such as Joomla are common, and BT recently announced that it will be offering all of its clients the open source CRM system SugarCRM (News - Alert) rather than Siebel.
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via TMC Net @ 12:40 15th Jul
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Wij hebben enkele experimentele fases doorlopen om te Open Source te begrijpen, ons te positioneren en Open Source projecten te testen”, verklaart Marc Gardette, verantwoordelijke van de groep architecten van de researchdivisie en het bedrijfsplatform van Microsoft Frankrijk. De uitgever neemt uiteraard al twee jaar deel aan de vrije wereld, al was het maar met Codeplex, het hostingplatform voor Open Source projecten. Het bedrijf vermenigvuldigt nu ook haar partnerakkoorden met de gemeenschap dankzij een samenwerking met Novell, Apache en zelfs Mozilla. Ten slotte is het bedrijf dit jaar ook sponsor van organisaties zoals Open Source Census en Oscon (Open Source Convention).
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via Computerworld Belgium @ 11:28 19th Jun
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