Judge Jackson's ongoing restrictions focus on the relationship between the two companies, and their agreements with PC manufacturers and ISVs (independent software vendors). Microsoft is dead. Make way for its two terrible offspring.
Apple is planning to release to the open source community next month the technology it calls Rendezvous - a technique for allowing networked devices to find each other automatically. The technology, which is built into the new version 10.2 of Mac...
Open source software is set to dramatically increase its foothold in the public sector. Two councils, Newham in London and Nottingham City Council, are examining the feasibility of shifting all their 11,500 staff desktop computers from Windows to...
Sun won its first request - that Microsoft stop distributing its own Java VM as a stand-alone version - but, so far, has been rebuffed on the second - that Microsoft be compelled to carry Sun's Java software.
In another public-sector boost to open source software, Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam called for his country's military to use such nonproprietary technology to ward off cybersecurity threats. Software maintenance and software upgrade is an...
Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. The company has dropped its appeal against its conviction last July in a German court of failure to...