The wider argument is whether permitting software to be patented is harmful to innovation. The European Community has been much more cautious about permitting software patents, and is still discussing the issue.
Open source software portals Sourceforge and themes.org have been cracked by hackers. The Apache Software Foundation, another big open source player, admitted yesterday that one its web servers had also been compromised.
The lawsuit also comes as Microsoft is facing increased competition by open source groups and their community-developed software, such as Linux. It's anticompetitive, it's predatory and it denies consumers, and in this case taxpayers, the benefits...
There are some 5,000 third party applications available to run on Microsoft Windows operating system but only a handful of applications supported by the open source community. Stephen Uden, group manager of education relations for Microsoft, wrote...
Öistämö promised Nokia would "actively contribute to the open-source community, especially KDE", and would "continue to invest in Qt, adding more advanced graphical capabilities". Chambe-Eng added that Nokia's decision to maintain Trolltech's...
With Ribbit, not only do we extend our presence in [Silicon] Valley but we also gain a ground-breaking platform, a growing community of developers and a world-class team that share a common vision. BT's managing director of service design, JP...