December 16 Open Source News

Open Source Group Sues Consumer Electronics Companies InformationWeek The GNU GPL v2 governs the use of many open source technologies. BusyBox is a component of embedded Linux, the OS used in many consumer electronics products ...

Is open source a train anyone can stop? ZDNet Linux, a mainstream operating system, is proof you can monetize open source software with application service and support around the world. ...

The Problem of the Open Source Commons: Harsh Economic Realities of Open ... Java World A particular open source product may be considered highly valuable by many users who, given the appropriate license agreement, never actually back up this ...

Microsoft apologizes to Drupal community...for competing CNET News Microsoft has launched an advertising campaign against Drupal, an open-source Web publishing system, to promote its websitespark program. ...

Red Hat makes desktop virtualization protocol open source InfoWorld Red Hat embraced the virtualization market some time ago, starting with the open source Xen technology as part of the company's Enterprise Linux operating ...

Open Source Football: Goal Line Technology Apna Football Open Source Football offers a close look at how football can be improved - through technology or otherwise. Not just how its played and controlled, ...

Magento and GlobalCollect Enter Strategic Partnership To Boost Online Sales Business Wire (press release) The Magento e-commerce platform, developed by Varien, is based on open source technology that provides merchants with high levels of flexibility and control ...

EnterpriseDB and The 451 Group to Host Webinar on Open Source Adoption in the ... Melodika.net EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres company, will host a webinar with The 451 Group this week titled "Open Source Adoption in the Enterprise. ...

Google phone with T-Mobile contract in Jan: source Reuters Until now, Google has partnered with many handset makers by offering its open-source Android software as a freely available operating system for smart ...