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The GPL Becomes A Corporate Weapon

Ive written many times here about the open source incline. The more community support you want, the closer your license moves toward the GPL.But ever since Sun decided last year to release Java under the GPL, companies have been recognizing the offensive advantages of a license that makes all improvements...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Games, GPL, Red Hat Developer Studio, MyEclipse, Genuitec, GPL-license, game

Blog posts 2007-03-19

Linus Torvalds summarily rejects GPL 3

Stephen Shankland reports that Linux keyholder Linus Torvalds isn't keen on aligning the kernal with a new, and as yet incomplete, GPL license. Torvalds said that it is "insane to require people to make their private signing keys available," referring to the anti-DRM element in the GPL 3 draft...

Tags: Linus Torvalds, GPL

Blog posts 2006-01-26

Covalent launches strike against JBoss with Geronimo

Covalent launches strike against JBoss with GeronimoJBoss is LGPL, not GPLJBoss is not licensed under the GPL like Linux BTW, but under the LGPL Lesser GPL.I am surprised Mark Brewer propagates such inaccurate statements and I would encourage him to visit our LGPL FAQ (http://www.jboss.com/opensource/lgpl/faq). The LGPL is absolutely fine...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Development tools, Middleware, LGPL, JBoss, Covalent Technologies, GPL-license

Discussion threads 2006-01-24

Open source SPARC likely to use GPL license

Open source SPARC likely to use GPL licenseDidn't Sun make fun of the GPL?A few months back, Sun was dogging the GPL. This is fairly typical of Sun which says good things about Linux when they think it's bad for Microsoft and then bad things about Linux when...

Tags: Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL, Open source SPARC, GPL-license, open source

Discussion threads 2005-12-14

Scoring SCO's legal games

Scoring SCO's legal gamesResult of text searchResult of text search can only bring copyright infringe matters - not a patent violations.Well, unfortunatelly some idiots clerks and lawyers thought that patenting content of document yes source code is just a document or data is good enough for patenting.This is the same...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Litigation, game, GPL-license, SCO Group Inc., fraud, government

Discussion threads 2003-11-24

Additional Resources

mp4vEncoder 1.1.8r2 (Mac)

libavcodec based QuickTime Media Compressor component. Support mp4v, MPEG-4 Video Media. Support some MPEG-4 ASP features, including B-frame with Open/Closed GOP. Source codes are included, and free software under GPL V2. Uses libavcodec.a and others from ffmpeg SVN. Universal Binary

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MPEG-4, MyCometG3, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-22

xvidEncoder 1.1.8r2 (Mac)

Xvid and libavcodec based QuickTime Media Compressor component. Support xvid, another MPEG-4 SP/ASP Video Media. Support some MPEG-4 ASP features, including B-frame with Open/Closed GOP. Source codes are included, and free software under GPL V2. Uses libxvidcore.a, libavcodec.a and others from xvid release build and ffmpeg SVN.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MPEG-4, XviD, MyCometG3, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-22

x264Encoder 1.1.8r2 (Mac)

x264 and libavcodec based QuickTime Media Compressor component. Support avc1, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video Media. Support some MPEG-4 AVC features, including Main/High Profile up to Level 5.1. Source codes are included, and free software under GPL V2. Uses libx264.a, libavcodec.a and others from x264 git and ffmpeg SVN. Universal Binary

Tags: Apple Macintosh, SVN, MyCometG3, Digital Video, Digital Media, Digital Music, Open Source, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Open Search Server 1.1.2r665 (Mac)

Open Search Server OSS is a search engine software developed under the GPL v3 open source licence. Built using the best open source technologies available, Open Search Server is a stable, high-performance piece of software. It is both a modern search engine and a suite of high-powered full text search...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Full-text Search, Open Search Server, Document Format, XML, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-21

Web Controller 2003 (Windows)

Australian Web Hosting controller for the windows hosting account. With the Windows hosting control panel you can control programs like iis6, ftp, dns, frontpage extension, asp.net an many other related services like email and other features like xmail server. The Windows hosting control panel works with all versions of windows...

Tags: Web, Control Panel, Server, Lake Hosting, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup

To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Microsoft shares a few tidbits on IE9 and (lots) more on Silverlight 4

Safari? What Safari ? :-)http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/39495-safari-4-beta-first-browser-to-hit-100-score-in-acid3-testI know, Steve doesn't like Apple but you're supposed to be a journalist? ;-)Google chrome?IE like Microsoft is stumbling around in a new ecosystem in which spending thousands of dollars is not an option.Plus, it locks you into a insecure OS platform with...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Spell Check, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, HTML5, JavaScript, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Where Microsoft is gaining in open source

Microsoft licenses are now used on 1 in every 40 open source projects. That's more than Mozilla. More than Eclipse. More than even the Lesser GPL. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-18

MySQL Workbench OSS 5.2.8b1 (Mac)

MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Database Design, OSS, MySQL Workbench, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-18

WordPress 2.8.6 (Windows)

WordPress is a personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-structured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Wordpress, WordPress.org, Channel Management, Quality, Open Source, Marketing, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Cyberduck 3.3 (Mac)

Cyberduck is an open source SFTP SSH Secure File Transfer and FTP browser licenced under the GPL. It has been built from the ground up with usability in mind, having the same consistent graphical user interface for both SFTP and FTP browsing. Multiple connections are supported. Drag and drop is...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, FTP, SFTP, Cyberduck, Transfer Queue, Bookmark Manager

Software downloads 2009-11-13

News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-11

New tool aids .Net developers in writing Linux, Mac OS X apps

Windows only applications will be a thing of the past before long.We could also use some good tools for porting general Win32 apps to Mac and Linux using WineLib.Agree, but, for the transition, these kinks of tools will helpNTmore reasons to avoid NovellThese proprietary apps that work only with M$...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Operating systems, tool, Linux, Microsoft .NET, Mac OS X app, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Oracle: EC has 'profound misunderstanding' of database market

Seems to me the EC is interested in protecting Open Source......and not choice.The flipside of that argument I presume is thatOracle does not need to acquire MySQL and hence the EC's concerns might be met. How about it Oracle. Sell it or set it free, completely. Put your money where...

Tags: Databases, database, Oracle Corp., MySQL, open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

FET - Free Timetabling Software 5.11 (Windows)

FET is free, open source GNU/GPL software. Localized to English, Arabic, Catalan, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Turkish etc. Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation. Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Liviu Lalescu, FET, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-06