October 24 Open Source News

Beware Open Source Encryption Dr. Dobb's Journal Now, organizations and individuals are required to notify the Bureau before making open source cryptographic software public on the Internet. ...

Even The Open Source Community Gets Overly Restrictive At Times Techdirt Reader Brad sent in a fascinating post from a little while back by Steve Streeting, a software developer who created an open source 3D rendering engine ...

Open Source conference returns to Portland Portland Business Journal OSCON, the annual convention for the open source community, returns to Portland in July 2010 after a one-year detour to San Jose, Calif. ...

BT taps open source BI software, homegrown DW to unlock customer data SearchCRM.com Not surprisingly, then, the company turned to open source technology. "With open source, you can customize it as you see fit," Gayle said. ...

PortableApps adds Chrome and Skype CNET News That collection used to be limited only to open-source programs, but on Wednesday it started making portable versions of closed-source freeware to users. ...

Linux/Open Source Mozilla's Raindrop Aims To Sort Out the Message Flood CIO Today Since it is an open-source project, users are encouraged to develop their own widgets to provide new functionality. The time line offered for the project is ...

Apple Shuts Down Open Source ZFS Project Mac Rumors A notice posted today on Apple's ZFS open source project page indicates that the project has been terminated. The ZFS project has been discontinued. ...

Symbian Foundation opens smartphone kernel source code Ars Technica It's a key milestone in the foundation's open source roadmap, but Symbian still faces a tough battle against Android and the iPhone. ...

Open Source Voting System Code Ready for Public Review Wired (blog) The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) announced the availability of source code for its prototype election system Wednesday night at a panel ...