February 24 Open Source News

Facebook still pitching itself to open-source crowd CNET But this year the focus was instead on open source, with relatively recent hire David Recordon taking the stage rather than a platform evangelist. ...

BBC iPlayer rejects open source plugins, takes Flash-only path Register However, it didn't explain to us why Auntie had decided to put a block on open source RTMP plugins now. XBMC developer 'frosty' noted the Corporation's ...

Community grows for open-source enterprise apps CNET To balance the two, companies often seek to reduce corporate control of community through open-source licensing, but this strategy may be diluted by the ...

No fit for open source in IBM's Smarter Planet tech Computer Business Review By Steve Evans IBM is unlikely to open source any of its Smarter Planet technology, despite the potential innovations the open source community can offer, ...

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state The Guardian (blog) Guadamuz has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the ...

MISYS Open Source Solutions Enters Strategic Partnership with Markit MarketWatch (press release) Misys Open Source Solutions, LLC, a division of Misys plc, supports the Misys banking, treasury & capital markets and healthcare customers by leading the ...

Hearst Expands Local Sports Coverage With Open-Source 'Bleacher Report' mediabistro.com (blog) By Mike Taylor on Feb 23, 2010 02:30 PM Hearst Newspapers today said it is partnering with "open-source news network" Bleacher Report to create joint sports ...

Microsoft and Amazon agree... what? And is it bad for Linux? Computerworld (blog) Amazing how despite the "broad range of products and technology" covered in their cross license, Microsoft chose to focus on Linux and open source. ...

Axial Exchange Presents Open Source Innovations at 2010 HIMSS Health IT ... PR Newswire (press release) "By combining the power of open source with the value of a world class partner network, Axial aims to bring the cost of data access down while increasing ...

PreEmptive Solutions Announces Availability of Open Source Runtime ... SYS-CON Media (press release) The open source project utilizes the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 community edition of Dotfuscator to inject the application instrumentation mechanism ...