September 26 Open Source News

Free software is dead. Long live open source CNET News by Matt Asay One of the most inspiring things I've witnessed in my 10-plus years in open source is its gradual embrace of pragmatism. ...

IMLS Grants To Support ROI Study, New Open-Source Library System ... Library Journal King County Library System, Issaquah, WA, was awarded $998556 (match: $1014400) for "Empowered by Open Source." In creating a new open source library system ...

Gov't open-source guidelines ignored, says Ingres ZDNet UK The public sector is ignoring government guidelines on procuring open-source software, according to open-source database company Ingres. ...

Rivet Logic Intros New Open Source Web Content Delivery Framework TMCnet By Anshu Shrivastava Rivet Logic, a provider of open source content management and collaboration solutions, reportedly launched Crafter rivet, ...

Linux and Open Source ZDNet Linus Torvalds shocked the crowd (well, the group) at LinuxCon this week with three words. "Linux is bloated." He added it's even gotten "huge and scary. ...

Open source code quality improving Register By John Leyden • Get more from this author The quality and security levels of open source code are continuing to improve, according to the latest annual ...

The Difference Between EULAs and Open Source Licenses OS News And this brings me to the difference between an End User License Agreement and open source licenses like the GPL or the BSD licenses. ...

Open Source Start-up Poses Mainframe Dilemma for IBM SYS-CON Media (press release) The European Commission, an admitted open source advocate, is already entertaining at least one known complaint about IBM's allegedly anti-competitive ...

Samsung Releases Open Source-based Phone For British Mobile Carrier Bernama SEOUL, Sept 25 (Bernama) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second largest handset maker, said Friday that it released its first open source-based ...