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Is everything open source?

To see just how big a buzzword open source has become, look to the troubled bond insurers MBIA and AMBAC. These two companies started off...

AMD goes open source with performance library

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is making its performance library available as open-source code, which should help developers build multithreaded applications for x86 machines. The...

Europeans ‘better’ contributors to open source community?

I had an interesting chat yesterday with Javier Soltero, the CEO of open source web infrastructure management firm, Hyperic. We got to talking about...

Will open source be a victim in the Dot Bomb 2.0?

In some ways Dot Bomb 2.0 has already begun. Google is down 27% since the start of the year. Once solid niches like consumer health...

Microsoft’s open-source patent threat still intact

Microsoft made major concessions Thursday that should make it easier for open-source software to dovetail with or even replace Microsoft products, but a major...

Is counting open source code contributions really useful?

If you're active in the open source world, Ohloh probably knows you. The Bellevue, Wash., software company has a database of some 70,000 developers...

Open-source fans mixed on Microsoft move

Open-source fans can be a skeptical bunch, but I've seen their collective opinions shift--for example in the gradually diminishing loathing for Sun Microsystems as...

What’s Next for Open Source and Public Media?

Open Source has won. We've moved into Gandhicon 4. Now what? That's the question that occurred to me yesterday, while sitting in the audience...

Switching Office Suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org

Author: JT Smith How to set up OpenOffice.org to work how you want it with templates and clip art, configurations, shortcuts, and more. You’ve been...

AMD open-sources code for multicore development

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday released the source code aimed at making it easier to build media applications for x86 multicore processors. Link: news.com Category: Open...