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Rewriting GPL No Easy Task

BURLINGAME, Calif.—In 1991, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, rewrote the GNU General Public License and simply put the final version out...

IBM Widens Net in SCO Subpoena Search

IBM has started a round of depositions aimed at gleaning as much information as possible about the contents of communications between The SCO Group...

Center Offers Open Source License Defense, Legal Services

The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) has raised $4 million to seed a non-profit, independent legal center that will provide free services to eligible...

CollabNet Leader: Software Development in a Sorry State

BURLINGAME, Calif.—The current state of the corporate software market could best be described as a train wreck, Brian Behlendorf, the chief technical officer and...

Open Source Initiative Changes Leaders

The Open Source Initiative announced Tuesday that it is replacing its longtime president, Eric S. Raymond, and other officers.The moves are part of the...

Downloadable Databases Pose Security Dangers

Are they lazy? Stupid? Or merely inexperienced? Its baffling that so many database administrators or casual non-DBA downloaders were responsible for leaving weak or default...

Open-Source Leaders Accept New Challenges

BURLINGAME, Calif.—A slate of Linux and open-source software luminaries took to the stage Tuesday here at the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) Enterprise Summit,...

OSDL Helps Fund New Open-Source Legal Center

BURLINGAME, Calif.—The open-source industry is stepping up to the plate to protect its developers and projects from legal attack. The Open Source Development Labs, a...

Magnolia 2.0

Like many other open-source applications, Magnolia 2.0 has inherent benefits, such as broad platform support (it runs on almost any platform, including Windows, Linux...

The Open-Source Challenge

In August 1991, a 21-year-old student posted a newsgroup message introducing a "free operating system" that he described as "just a hobby, wont be...