Open Source

Open source’s transitional phase

A report from last week's OSCON conference in San Jose

Validating maps with easyb

Intuit’s open source play is all business

Intuit open-sources components that help partners develop against the Intuit closed source platform more rapidly and effectively

Microsoft violated GPL before Linux code release

Vyatta's Stephen Hemminger claims that Hyper-V Linux drivers had to be released for compliance with the open-source license

Microsoft makes second GPLv2 release in as many days

The company releases a Live Services plug-in for the open source course-management system Moodle

Microsoft frees Linux drivers; other closed-source vendors to step up?

The three drivers released under the GPL v2.0 license could convince other vendors to follow suit

Linux driver chief went looking for Microsoft

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux driver project lead and a Novell fellow, pressed Microsoft to submit to the Linux kernel

Instant Google App Engine

Mozilla beats Microsoft to patch punch, quashes first critical bug in Firefox 3.5,

Microsoft's IE ActiveX vulnerability, disclosed the same day as Firefox's bug, is not yet fixed

Firefox 3.5’s first vulnerability ‘self-inflicted,’ says scientist

Hacker who posted public exploit code likely became aware of the flaw by rooting through Bugzilla, Mozilla's bug- and change-tracking database