February 23 Open Source News

Microsoft's anti-Google weapon: Open-source Bing Smart Data Collective (blog) By turning its search engine, Bing, into an open-source platform. Think of it. If Bing were open source, it could become the global laboratory for ...

Microsoft riles open-source advocates with Amazon deal PC Pro Amazon has struck a patent licensing deal with Microsoft, giving the online retailer the right to use open-source software in the Kindle. ...

Open Source's Big Model Train Win - Interesting, but... InternetNews.com (blog) By Sean Michael Kerner on February 22, 2010 4:36 PM It's a big win for open source -- or is it? I'm talking about the Jacobsen v. Katzer dispute about open ...

Opera launches first open-source project ZDNet UK Opera has launched its first fully open-source project by moving the Dragonfly debugging toolkit onto the BitBucket hosting service. ...

David Cameron launches Tory plan to curb out-of-town developments The Guardian The plan to curb out-of-town developments was one of the main measures in a Tory green paper on planning – Open Source Planning – launched yesterday by ...

Free software can have a catch Sydney Morning Herald Open-source applications can be a cheap option, but at what cost? Cynthia Karena reports. Free or low-cost open-source software sounds too good to be true. ...

Managing software legal compliance Computerworld By By Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu and Kamal Hassin of Protecode Network World - In the age of open source and large-scale outsourcing, ascertaining the legal ...

Some Clarity about the Devil Mountain Software Clarity Suite ZDNet (blog) A thorough portscan of the machine using the Open Source NMAP tool indicates that the Devil Mountain Software Clarity9 collection server, a Windows 2003 ...

snom technology Partners With ScopServ International for Increased ... TMC Net Asterisk is the world's leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, ...