Stories about: Free Software Foundation

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    Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL 29/10/2009 06:16:00

    A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database. Surprisingly, many are not opposing the shift in MySQL ownership that would come with the close of Oracle's $7.4 billion deal to acquire current owner Sun Microsystems Inc., contending that it would not wound the open source database.
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    Goldman Sachs case; can open-source software be stolen? 27/08/2009 12:57:00

    Arrested last month for stealing cutting-edge trading software from his former employer, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., programmer Sergey Aleynikov offered up an interesting defense: he was only trying to download open-source software.
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    Protestors rally against Windows 7 27/08/2009 09:41:00

    The Free Software Foundation held a rally Wednesday on Boston Common to protest Windows 7 and other proprietary software.
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    Free software group attacks Windows 7 'sins' 27/08/2009 06:12:00

    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Wednesday launched a campaign against Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 operating system, calling it "treacherous computing" that stealthily takes away rights from users.
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    Does GPL still matter? 11/08/2009 04:00:00

    Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications for his company's future. That decision: to toss away his upcoming product's Gnu General Public License (GPL), the best-known and most popular free software license, in favor of what he viewed as a more business-friendly alternative. "We initially started the product with a GPLv3 license and we decided last summer to move the license to Apache," Haynie says.
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    Engineer: Microsoft violated GPL before Linux code release 24/07/2009 08:51:00

    Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Microsoft made it available, according to an open-source network engineer.
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    Trade group: Stripping IE from Windows harms ISVs 26/05/2009 08:18:00

    The European Commission claims it is acting in the interests of consumers in pursuing an antitrust ruling against Microsoft for bundling its Internet Explorer into the Windows OS, but unbundling them would be a nightmare for independent software developers, said Jonathan Zuck, president of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), on Monday.
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    Wikipedia drops GNU in favor of Creative Commons license 22/05/2009 04:04:00

    The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday.
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    Cisco settles lawsuit with Free Software Foundation 21/05/2009 03:32:00

    Cisco Systems will appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses, and in return the Free Software Foundation will dismiss its lawsuit against the networking giant, the parties said on Wednesday.
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    Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice's independence 29/04/2009 08:43:00

    Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation.
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    Has Ubuntu Reached the End Of the Line? 28/04/2009 08:54:00

    I admit it. I'm impressed. I might have written a wishy-washy review of the beta of Ubuntu 9.04, but now I've had a chance to play with the final release, I like what I'm seeing. I like it a lot. Well done, Ubuntu guys!
 
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