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Xara LX is getting stable. Xara LX is an open source vector graphics drawing tool. It is the Linux port of the popular Xara Xtreme.
Source: businessreviewonline.com
[A] report from the Department of Defense's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office… recommends that the DoD move to a roadmap to adopt open source and open standards, maintaining that such a move is not only in the US national interest, but in the interests of US national s …
Source: arstechnica.com
It was almost two years ago to the day that [Ars Technica] reported on Internet Explorer's first-ever drop in browser market share. At the time, IE usage had dropped from 94.8 percent at the beginning of 2004 to 93.9 percent a few months later.
Source: newswise.com
Members of Cornell's Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe's first global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the codes secret.
Source: insight.zdnet.co.uk
Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, talks about the company’s open source strategy.
Source: musestorm.com
discusses open-source software that can help bootstrap a start-up
Source: wikihost.org
When legislators go draconian on us, it's time for some murky humour. Right? The General Public License (GPL) is a software license from the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Source: BetaNews
Microsoft will be sponsoring an open source project to write a plugin for Office 2007 that will enable importing and exporting of OpenDocument files.
Source: foxnews.com
He's bent the ear of world leaders on social causes. He's a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He's a rock star.
Source: openwengo.org
The OpenWengo project's goal is to build Open-Source, community-driven software that addresses the shared needs of Voice Over IP users, by leveraging the many Open Source low-level components available today.
Source: OpenOffice.org
Source: SVG.org News
Inkscape is a cross-platform open source vector graphics drawing tool. This release includes many improvements (native PDF export, better SVG conformance, node sculpting, clipping and masking support, to name a few).
Source: technologyvoices.com
Open source company management revealed
Hey look it’s Latino first article at the Vine! Let’s hope it runs well.
Source: gnome.org
Following on from GNOME's participation in Google's Summer of Code, we've decided to sponsor three projects in a similar fashion to the Summer of Code, but for women only.
Source: sci-tech-today.com
Several leading mobile-device manufacturers announced Wednesday that they plan to form an alliance to develop and support a global version of Linux for mobile phones, PDAs, and other portable devices by the end of 2007.
Source: eweek.com
Microsoft has been reaching out to the open-source community to try to find ways to overcome the incompatibilities between software distributed under the GNU General Public License and its own commercial software.
Source: tomshardware.com
In days gone by, the personification of Linux might have conjured up the image of a hotshot college kid full of half-baked ideas and sharp edges. But that college kid has now graduated into the business world, and unleashed his furious entrepreneurial spirit.
I've seen it but I'm not sure I believe it. Firefox's Mike Beltzner, interviewed this week on the TWiT.tv podcast Inside the Net , talked about firefoxflicks and in particular an extraordinary video contributed, he claimed, by a teenager.
Source: technology.guardian.co.uk
Lawrence Lessig is one of my heroes. He's one of the few lawyers who understand open source, technology and, ofcourse, its legal aspect. This article sheds a little about his fight.
Source: gizmosforgeeks.com
GamePark Holdings, Inc. has officially released the GP2X SDK.
Having watched Mac Break's excellent episode 6, on mail encryption, I thought I'd inform my friends and co-workers about my intention to begin routinely encrypting and signing my email correspondence with them, from now on.
Source: wired.com
Open source science journals...
Source: Freedom Toaster
The founder of Ubuntu and his foundation are dispensing open source software from vending machines. Incredible idea that just might work!
Source: opendemocracy.net
When Marcus J. Gilroy-Ware examined the rise of Wikipedia in September last year, the English version of this groundbreaking free encyclopaedia had about 730,000 articles. Evidently, a lot of can happen in a few short months.