January 30 Open Source News

Linux and Open Source ZDNet (blog) Matt Asay has a great piece over at C|Net today, describing attempts by open source to become more independent of Google, and essentially asking Google ...

Tearing down Twitter's walls CNET And, frankly, we need an open-source implementation. Open-source Sendmail was arguably the first messaging system to embrace SMTP. ...

Open Source: Not A Valuable Business Model For Movies? NewTeeVee (blog) Can film makers use principles known from open source software to produce their works and make a living while doing so? That's the question Tim Baumann set ...

Government ICT strategy pays lip service to open source LinuxWorld.com By Maxwell Cooter, TechWorld, 01/29/10 The government's stance on open source is meaningless without any significant means of enforcement. ...

Oracle climbs up the food chain CNET Open vs. open source. Oracle's model of "open" isn't the same as Sun's. In particular, it doesn't include nearly as much open source. Oracle does some open ...

Internet attack defense: License and registration please... ZDNet (blog) Combined with the new Open Source Android software, it's a dream come true for some, a nightmare for others. Red Hat believes it has one of the most secured ...

Red Hat's Open Source School of Thought LinuxInsider.com By Richard Adhikari The idea of open source need not be limited to software -- it can also apply to subjects like education, business, law and life in ...

PHP fluffed to suck data from Microsoft's cloud Register The PHP shop has released version its Zend Framework 1.10, claiming it lets developers easily call Windows Azure APIs from their open-source PHP ...

VMware Could Expand Cloud Platform With Acquisitions: Report ChannelWeb The company in August bought SpringSource, a developer of applications based on open-source technologies and a leader in such open-source communities as the ...

VMware Opens vCloud for Java, Python Developers Virtualization Review To that end, the virtualization market leader released two new open source software development kits (SDKs) last week. The kits -- one for Java and one for ..