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Making open-source browsing safe for the masses

It's been an eventful month for Window Snyder. As chief security something or other at Mozilla, Snyder has shepherded two updates that fixed...

Game Over For OpenDocument?

Is it game over for OpenDocument? Probably. We've been expecting Massachusetts ITD to publicly revise its open formats mandate to include Office Open XML...

Enea Open Sources LINX for Linux

New Distribution Model Makes Reliable, High-Performance Interprocess Communication (IPC) Services Freely Available. Link: press-releases.techwhack.com Category: Open Source

IDC: Patents Inhibit Open Source Adoption

Author: JT Smith Study shows what's driving open source forward, and what may be holding it back. "The potential for copyright and patent infringement is the...

Software Freedom Law Center clears OpenHAL for further development

Author: Shirl Kennedy An investigation by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has determined that OpenHAL -- which facilitates Linux wireless connections for LAN cards...

Open Source Being Repositioned in Corporate America

Open Source methodology has gained some ground in one of the last places you and I might expect: In the development area of corporations....

Microsoft Not So ‘Open’ After All?

The head of the open-source group that will decide whether to certify Microsoft's "shared source" software licenses as open-source licenses said that more than...

Do we need an open hardware license?

Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier Nokia researcher Jamey Hicks recently proposed a Open Source Hardware License (OSHL) for approval by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Is...

Diagnose and manage your network for free with Linux and open source tools

In this Internet-connected world it is an essential skill to know how to troubleshoot network problems. High-quality software suites exist to do the job...

Microsoft aims for open-source certification

After years of speculation, Microsoft said last week it will submit its "shared-source" software licences to the Open Source Initiative, for approval as fully...