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Microsoft reposts Windows 7 download tool
Microsoft said on Wednesday it has reposted a tool to the internet that aids installing Windows 7 on netbooks and computers without an optical drive. Read more »
Microsoft pulls Windows 7 download tool
Microsoft has halted distribution of a tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on netbooks amid allegations that the utility makes improper use of open-source code. Read more »
Microsoft sabotaging GPL, claims Samba
Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals. Read more »
Open source licence victory in model-railway case
A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions. Read more »
Skype caves in to GPL requirements
Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. Read more »
Sun promises 100 percent open source Java in 2008
Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. Read more »
Open source fans offer differing views of MS move
Open source developers and users have always been a sceptical group, but their opinions can shift — for example, their loathing of Sun Microsystems diminished as Sun stopped attacking Linux and started moving towards open source software. Read more »
Samba author: GPLv3 has further to go
The creator of the Samba project says GPLv3 could have gone further in its anti-DRM provisions. Read more »
Open source community site goes open source
Ohloh, the prominent community site for open source developers, is making itself open source, including its full suite of tools and even the Web site itself. Read more »
GPL offenders tackled by Linux law watchdogs
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) said it has filed suit against two companies for allegedly violating the General Public Licence, which covers usage of Linux and thousands of other free and open source products. Read more »
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Google: Open source lets us control our destiny
Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, gave the opening keynote at the Open Source Developer's Conference. Builder AU caught up with him to discuss why Google uses open source, how the company open sources its software and what it is like to be a comic book character. Read more »
Microsoft not yet open for business
The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested the information and replied: Heard it before. Not good enough. Read more »
JavaFX sends Sun back to the future?
Sun's chief technology officer for software discusses the issues facing Sun with JavaFX and whether it will be enough to put Java back on the desktop. Read more »
"We're halfway there": Sun on Open Source
Builder AU's Nick Gibson sat down with Sun Microsystems's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps to find out what's the fallout of open sourcing Java, what he really thinks about GPL v3 and why Sun is living on the prayer of Open Source. Read more »
Building on top of osCommerce
By choosing to modify an existing open source e-retailing system, Damian Hickey was able to accelerate the development process, but also took on board a score of additional problems. Read more »
Surviving in the wild with open source Java
Nick Gibson shows what the Classpath exception means you don't have to worry. Read more »
The open-source techie who means business
Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »
In defence of freedom
The principles are the same, but technology has moved on significantly in the 15 years since the release of GPL 2. Read more »
Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation
Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »
It's a Matrix moment for Linux
We are finding out that the brains of Linux programmers have been floating in tanks, feeding the parasitic robots (lawyers) who are calling the shots at financially strapped SCO. Now it's time to harvest those brains. Read more »
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Samba author: GPLv3 has further to go
The creator of the Samba project says GPLv3 could have gone further in its anti-DRM provisions. Read more »
Blog (8)
Aussie creates iPhone virus
-- An Aussie hacker has created a worm that places a background picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones that have SSH enabled, and released its source code. More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Microsoft's altruism just an illusion
-- Microsoft appeared to "get it" earlier this week, but it wasn't all that it seemed. Adobe and Oracle have been targeted by the security minded and the Windows 7 code has gone gold. Read more »
Microsoft adopts GPL for Hyper-V Linux components
-- Mark this day in your diary: Microsoft has decided to use the GPL for some of its software. Read more »
Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation
-- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »
Busybox settles a second GPL suit
-- The folks behind Busybox have settled a second lawsuit that argued a company violated the widely used free and open-source license. Read more »
Sun open sources Niagara 2 chip
-- Sun Microsystems has followed through on a promise to release the designs of a second server processor as open-source software. Read more »
GPL 3 -- a bridge too far?
-- Now it's time to create a new phrase: "free as in free software," meaning the freedom to make adversaries of potential partners -- the kind of freedom one has when one's work must be carefully excluded from other people's projects. Read more »
GPLv3 would prevent MS/Novell
-- According to the Free Software Foundation's general counsel, Eben Moglen, GPL version 3 would prevent the type of deal made by Microsoft and Novell from happening. Read more »
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