December 24 Open Source News

Google's Open-Source Manifesto Tells the Truth BusinessWeek In the open-source community, the free software definition explicitly states that truly free software means "free as in speech, not free as in beer. ...

O'Reilly seeks proposals for July open source conference eWeek The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) has issued a call for proposals for its annual conference. Scheduled for July 19-23, at the Oregon Convention ...

Read all 'open-source licensing' posts in The Open Road CNET News by Matt Asay When we open source our code we use standard, open Apache 2.0 licensing, which means we don't control the code. Others can take our open source ...

Will we see an open-source IPO in 2010? CNET News by Matt Asay 2010 is promising to be a big year for technology IPOs, but will open source join the party? Probably not. Not yet, anyway. ...

Fortify advises companies to code audit open source applications before deployment TMCnet (M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Following Sun Microsystems' decision to release a raft of open source applications to support its secure cloud ...

EtherPad source code is free, now what? LWN.net Some pieces of the service as it was provided at etherpad.com are not present in the open source release, however, notably file upload, ...

Your 2009 code word was Ubuntu ZDNet (blog) If there was one word that could get Open Source readers more passionate than Microsoft in 2009, it was Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not the most profitable Linux, ...

Software development's winners and losers, 2009 edition IDG The real secret may lie in WebKit-focused Web applications because the same open source browser implementation is running on many of the best smartphones. ...

The Top 10 Open Internet Moments of 2009 Huffington Post (blog) On the day they settled in at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Obama's open government team began deploying open-source Drupal systems on all of its sites and ...