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Does The GPL Still Matter? |
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Written by XOS Staff
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Friday, 09 May 2008 10:21 |
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The GNU General Public License heads to court again today, as Skype attempts to defend its distribution of Linux-enabled SMC hardware handsets that appear to be in violation of the operating system's open source license. It's easy to guess why Skype is fighting the suit, which was brought by GPL activists: the company relies on a proprietary protocol, and releasing the code could give competitors an advantage.
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Outsourcing vs insourcing? |
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Written by XOS Staff
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Friday, 09 May 2008 10:18 |
Outsourcing has so many benefits:
- Cost savings
- Time zone benefits
- Quick turn around time
- Standardising business processes
…and many more
-- tinasilvee, Naples
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Sun: Java ubiquity an advantage in RIA battle |
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Written by XOS Staff
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Friday, 09 May 2008 09:54 |
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Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft.
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TopCoder's interesting twist on community-based development |
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Written by XOS Staff
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Friday, 09 May 2008 09:43 |
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An old friend from the open-source world, Ira Heffan, called me today about his company, TopCoder. Ira is a smart guy so I figured anything with which he was involved must be good.
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Written by XOS Staff
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Friday, 09 May 2008 10:16 |
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The company has dropped its appeal against its conviction last July in a German court of failure to comply with the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product, but Skype's WSKP100 phone was sold without giving users access to the source code, according to a case brought by gpl-violations.org, a group policing open-source licence violations.
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Written by XOS Staff
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Friday, 09 May 2008 09:46 |
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All data center managers have their own “toolbox” of monitoring, management, and debugging programs. But unless they work in a large enterprise IT department that can afford an integrated suite of management tools, such as HP’s OpenView or IBM’s Tivoli line, they must use their network tools individually, without being able to flow data between them or view results from multiple programs simultaneously.
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The Freenet Project is very pleased to announce the release of Freenet 0.7.0. |
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Written by XOS Staff
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Friday, 09 May 2008 09:41 |
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Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet without fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve this Freenet makes it very difficult for adversaries to reveal the identity, either of the person publishing, or downloading content.
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