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Sun Microsystems announced it will release the Solaris Cluster source code through the HA community on the OpenSolaris site.
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Untangle to go Open Source

Security firm Untangle has decided to release their software under GPLv2.
Untangle’s platform for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and more is based on a variety of existing Open Source Solutions (Such as SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Snort, OpenVPN, etc.) which they have integrated and added on features.
Untagle provides both a free (as in beer) Open Source edition […]

The OSI Authority

The latest statement from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) regarding standing up against the misuse of the term “open source”, created a growing community response. Most of the responses are of support (some of the comments are not), but the side effect of this debate is the question raised regarding the authority of the OSI […]

OSI to Stand Up Against Abuse of the Term “Open Source”

Michael Tiemann, president of the OSI, posted on his blog “Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up?”
Basically, the OSI wants to stop the abuse of the term “Open Source” by companies not adhering to The Open Source Definition. As the popularity of Open Source grows, more and more companies abuse the term to […]

DOD: Open Source - The future is open

An interesting paper by the Department of Defense (DOD) on Open Source in the military.
I found it intriguing to see the differences and similarities in the reasons why the military (as opposed to the private sector) choose to use Open Source software.
And as David A. Wheeler is one of the contributers to the paper, you […]

FOSS Licensing in Medicine

Fred Trotter writes a detailed explanation why he believes “only” GPL  should be used for medical software.

Kompoz - “Open Source” Music

For several weeks I have been thinking about an idea and amusing myself with the thought of realizing it.
Basically I was thinking of a way to apply Open Source concepts to music production. My vision was of:

A Web 2.0 site were musicians collaborate on music projects
Anyone can open a music “project” which is basically a […]

Comparison of European Schools Preference (MS vs. OSS)

And Microsoft discovers…. (Drum roll please) Microsoft preferred by European Schools!
I love these unbiased surveys (this one was commissioned by Microsoft). I especially enjoyed their finding that “PC failures are 50 percent more common in the schools using OSS than in schools using Microsoft…”
Lucky for us, David Wheeler has a very comprehensive and truly objective […]

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