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zdnet.com » Open Source - 16 hours ago
The Register is convinced that former NSA programmer Dave Aitel has gone over to the dark side by making his DR Rootkit open source under GPL 2. While it’s true that the program can make rootkits, I don’t see it as a …
Also tagged: general, security, internet, linux, applications, gpl, implementations
zdnet.com » Open Source - Sep 3, 2008
The media is going to be all over the Google Chrome story today, painting it as a threat to or rejection of Firefox. It’s not. While it’s true Google pulled its developers off Firefox in 2006, the resulting code is …
Also tagged: general, development, internet, google, java, applications, content, mass market
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Can Google not do evil?zdnet.com » Open Source - Sep 2, 2008 Conventional wisdom holds that, no matter how altruistic a company starts, its growth eventually turns those values inside-out and creates a monster. During my own career I have seen this happen twice, to Wal-Mart and … Also tagged: general, internet, infrastructure, google, strategy, applications, values, business models, mass market |
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Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?zdnet.com » Open Source - Aug 27, 2008 Microsoft hasn’t even shipped its Internet Explorer 8 but already some Firefox developers say they have a better privacy solution. Perspectives, hatched at Carnegie Mellon, thwarts so-called “Man in the Middle” … Also tagged: general, internet, microsoft, applications, mass market |
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Which merchants benefit most from open source?zdnet.com » Open Source - Aug 26, 2008 If you can see yourself doing $5-10,000 in receipts each month you’re a good candidate for an open source ecommerce solution. Michael Valverde, CEO of Chain Reaction Ecommerce, based near downtown Atlanta, said his … Also tagged: general, applications, database management |
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When is open source just throwing it all away?zdnet.com » Open Source - Aug 25, 2008 Today ZDNet has yet-another story about microblogging going open source. Andrew Mager has the story of Laconi.ca, which lets you “build your own Twitter” with support for the Open Microblogging protocol. Laconi.ca is … Also tagged: general, management, applications, business models |
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Build your own cloud with open sourcezdnet.com » Open Source - Aug 25, 2008 For many corporate researchers, clouds and distributed computing have a big downside. (This cluster, at the University of Texas, is looking for oil reservoirs, naturally.) They’re somewhere else. They’re someone … Also tagged: general, marketing, applications, database management, cloud computing, implementations |
kdedevelopers.org » kdedevelopers.org blogs - Aug 21, 2008
During the last couple of days I've been working on trying to get parts of kde packaged for maemo, to make development for others easier, and after some struggles, I finally succeeded in doing part of this. Most of …
Also tagged: kde general
zdnet.com » Open Source - Aug 13, 2008
The beta of Firefox 3.1 has been pushed back to mid September. At the Mozilla group’s weekly meeting Tuesday, one developer said “there is a big gap between the features planned for 3.1 and what will make it if we …
Also tagged: internet, linux, java, applications, foss, linux desktop os
kdedevelopers.org » kdedevelopers.org blogs - Aug 9, 2008
As just mentioned in the openSUSE talk at Akademy, Novell/SUSE is hiring for its KDE team! The team is working on KDE in past and future openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise releases. You can find the job description at …