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| A week in the life of Open XML
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| The main players in the ongoing row over the approval of Microsoft’s Open XML (OXML) file format as an international standard ended the week further apart than ever.
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April 11, 2008 |
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| Adobe exec updates open source group think
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| Sun Microsystems' former software chief has curbed his enthusiasm for free and open source software, drawing a line between the needs of communities and users.
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August 21, 2007 |
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| Adobe Opens Up Flash
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| Adobe Systems is opening up access Thursday to its Flash technology via the Open Screen Project, an industry initiative intended to provide a Flash-based unified runtime environment for rich content across all devices.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| And the Top 15 Open-Source Influencers Area...
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| A slide show hasn't been up for more than a few hours and I've already gotten some questions about our choices.
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March 28, 2008 |
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| Apple cripples Sun's open source jewel
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| It was all hookers and balloons at Sun Microsystems when the company first found out that Apple would pick up its well-regarded DTrace analysis tool for use with Mac OS X.
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January 22, 2008 |
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| Avoiding the great open-source blunder
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| Let me get right to the point: The time is now for open-source offerings to get their collective act together.
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February 6, 2008 |
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| Blue Skies for Open Source
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| Weather.com, the online arm of Atlanta-based Weather Channel Interactive Inc., last month moved its final customer-facing, proprietary application to open source. Chief Technology Officer Dan Agronow doesn’t say whether his staff broke a bottle of bubbly over the new MySQL app server that replaced an Oracle system, but you can tell he’s happy.
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October 15, 2007 |
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| Brazil bitchslaps ratification of OOXML
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| Brazil has fired off a formal objection to the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.
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May 30, 2008 |
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| BusyBox Developers File GPL Infringement Lawsuit Against Verizon
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| The BusyBox developers, with the SFLC, are suing Verizon on the grounds that it is illegally distributing open-source software to its FiOS customers.
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December 7, 2007 |
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| Changes to OOXML draft standard waved through
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| But questions remain about possible defects in the standard.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| Danish Delegate Disputes OOXML Standard Vote
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| By voting to adopt a standard based on Microsoft's OOXML document format, the Danish national standards body has approved an unknown text against the wishes of the main representatives on its own technical committee, according to a technical committee representative from the Danish city of Aarhus.
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May 18, 2008 |
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| Dire Predictions for Future of Open Source Software
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| The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage.
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November 30, 2007 |
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| Does the open-source development model work for business users?
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| Carefully choosing between community-supported and enterprise versions is key, they say.
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March 5, 2008 |
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| Dutch Gov releases Open Source tool
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| THE DUTCH COUNCIL OF STATE will let loose the software it uses to convert proprietary document formats created in MS Office into Open Source documents which follow the Open Document Format (ODF) protocol.
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May 28, 2008 |
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| Easing into Open Source
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| Open-source software can save an organization money and open the door to customization, but it pays to know where to start and where to get help.
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March 3, 2008 |
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| EC takes own sweet time backing Microsoft ODF move
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| The European Commission is investigating Microsoft’s interoperability pledge that it will support OpenDocument Format (ODF) in Office 2007 service pack two (SP2).
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May 22, 2008 |
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| EU competition chief advocates open standards
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| Kroes delivers thinly veiled warning to Microsoft.
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June 10, 2008 |
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| Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic States
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| As the date draws near for the first round of discussions before the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on the topic of adopting Microsoft's Office Open XML format, allegations have arisen that Microsoft may have used influential tactics to sway the outcomes of recommendation votes in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
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August 28, 2007 |
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| Facebook Open Sources Parts of Its App Development Platform
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| Facebook will offer as open source "most" of the code that runs its platform, plus implementations of its most popular methods and tags.
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June 2, 2008 |
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| Facebook: Open Source Was Always the Plan
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| Pressured by Google's OpenSocial effort, Facebook open-sources its platform under the Mozilla and CPAL licenses.
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June 3, 2008 |
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| Fallout from Office Open XML Vote Continues
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| Work in the ISO/IEC committee that addresses document formats has come to a complete halt.
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October 19, 2007 |
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| First Lawsuit Filed Over Alleged GPL Violation
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| For the first time in the U.S., a company and software vendor, Monsoon Multimedia, is being taken to court for a GPL violation. Previously, alleged GPL violations have all been settled by letters from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) or other open-source organizations, pointing out the violation.
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September 21, 2007 |
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| Freescale loves open and closed source equally
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| Freescale Semiconductor, whose chips power a broad range of business and consumer devices, has spread its bets in embedded software development by joining the open source Eclipse Foundation and Microsoft's embedded partner programme.
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June 19, 2008 |
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| Fuzzy royalties policies challenge Microsoft's open API pledge
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| Royalties charged by Microsoft on Windows APIs and protocols are the next hurdle the company must clear in its wooing of open source developers.
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March 7, 2008 |
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| Google gloats over ISO's OOXML rejection
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| Google has proved unable to restrain itself from gloating over the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) decision not to approve Microsoft's request that the OOXML specification be fast-tracked for approval.
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September 17, 2007 |
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| Google takes a swipe at OOXML
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| Google has slammed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format as being "insufficient and unnecessary".
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Google Takes Down Open-source Project After DMCA Complaint
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| Google has removed an open-source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux following a complaint from the codec's developer -- but the project could soon return.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| Has Microsoft Seen the Open Source Light?
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| As we reported on Sunday, Microsoft is becoming a co-sponsor of the Open Source Census (OSC), a further commitment to the company's interoperability principles launched earlier this year. The OSC is trying to figure out how widespread the use of Open Source Software is within companies and to generally promote its use.
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June 17, 2008 |
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| How to Choose Open-Source Telephony
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| When companies face the task of moving from their old phone systems to IP telephony, they also find themselves faced with deciding whether to choose a proprietary IP phone system or one that`s an open-source solution.
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June 23, 2008 |
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| HP Contributes Source Code to Open Source Community to Advance Adoption of Linux
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| Continuing its efforts to advance customer adoption of Linux, HP today announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.
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June 23, 2008 |
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| HP Drives Customer Adoption of Open Source and Linux in the Data Center
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| Customers MD Anderson and Partners HealthCare invest in new solutions for drug discovery.
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August 6, 2007 |
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| HP Promotes Open Source Software Governance with New Initiative
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| HP today announced a software governance initiative to help companies address the legal, financial and security risks faced when adopting free and open source software (FOSS).
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January 24, 2008 |
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| IBM and Novell team up for chunk of open source market
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| Tout free app server software, taunt Microsoft.
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August 8, 2007 |
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| IBM hopes its second Symphony beta hits an even higher note
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| Latest free office suite is available starting today.
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November 13, 2007 |
Provides Information |
| IBM May Open Source Jazz Collaboration Software
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| The company is also considering packaging and licensing some of the functional parts currently available on Jazz.
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August 24, 2007 |
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| INCITS confirms: U.S. to vote for Open XML in ISO
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| Opposition within ISO group continues, but Sept. 2 vote is settled.
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August 30, 2007 |
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| India Rejects Office Open XML Again
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| In the meeting of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) technical committee Thursday, 13 members voted against the standard, while five members, including some outsourcing companies, and the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) voted for making Open XML a standard.
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March 21, 2008 |
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| Intel Open-Source Project to Make Linux Greener
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| Power management in Linux has been difficult to do. On Sept. 20, Intel announced the launch of an open-source community project, LessWatts.org, which is designed to meet the demands for increased energy efficiency from data center servers to personal mobile devices.
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September 21, 2007 |
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| Is Open Source the Best Way to Unlock the Value of IT?
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| The president of OSI says open source brings a true common operating platform.
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September 21, 2007 |
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| ISO certifies MS Office Open XML, just barely, with 75% approval
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| No, it's not an April Fool: Despite controversy over whether certain countries' voting members truly represented the wishes of their respective standards delegations, it would appear ODF now has company in the world's library of standards..
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April 1, 2008 |
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| ISO takes full charge of Open XML, sets up 'harmonization' group
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| It will now be up to a new working group, yet to be given an official name, to manage the process of making OXML play nice with ODF. It's out of Microsoft's hands.
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April 10, 2008 |
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| Java is finally Free and Open
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| At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
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June 19, 2008 |
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| JBoss alumni launch open-source start-up
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| A start-up founded by former JBoss developers came out of stealth mode this week to announce a new product designed to help businesses zero in on their best sales leads.
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January 25, 2008 |
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| LeapFrog Jumps into Open Source
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| A best-of-breed philosophy is leading LeapFrog Enterprises increasingly toward open-source options.
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August 28, 2007 |
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| Meet Mark Radcliffe: The man who rules open source law
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| Radcliffe, an attorney at giant DLA Piper, has lurked behind some of the most important shifts in the open source world over the past few years.
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August 30, 2007 |
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| Microsoft accused of ballot stuffing in standards vote
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| Hot Swedish XML action.
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August 29, 2007 |
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| Microsoft adds OOXML to its promise not to sue
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| In another carefully timed move to garner support for its document format still under consideration for an international standard, Microsoft today altered the terms under which use of its Office Open XML format by developers is permitted.
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February 15, 2008 |
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| Microsoft and Open-Source Backers Eye Each Other Warily
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| Despite new overtures, the two sides remain 'frenemies' sometimes friends, sometimes foes.
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October 29, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Announces DAISY for Word
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| Microsoft has made another affirmation of its commitment to providing the visually impaired with useful software, announcing this morning it is developing a plug-in for Microsoft Word that translates documents into DAISY XML, a standard for digital talking books.
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November 13, 2007 |
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| Microsoft can't wriggle out of GPLv3
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| has engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the software industry for years, trying to attack free software for almost as long, says the Free Software Foundation.
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August 28, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Clarifies Open-Source Certification Plans
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| Microsoft says it will submit for open-source certification only two licenses that allow source code to be used on any platform.
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August 3, 2007 |
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| Microsoft discloses 14,000 pages of coding secrets
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| Microsoft today lifted the lid on 14,000 pages of sketchy versions of tech documentation for core software code. On show for the first time in public are underlying protocols for Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
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April 8, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Embraces Open Source
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| Microsoft on Thursday announced it will provide access to APIs and protocols for its major products, including Windows and Office.
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February 21, 2008 |
Provides Information |
| Microsoft Gets Closer to Open Document Standard
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| Without adding any software to Office, users will be able to access Open Document Format files.
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May 21, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Loses XML Vote
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| A standards group has rejected Microsoft's Open XML standard as an open document format alternative.
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August 11, 2007 |
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| Microsoft now sponsor of Open Source Census
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| It may be a step toward warming relationship with open-source community.
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June 16, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Now Sponsor of Open Source Census
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| Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.
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June 15, 2008 |
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| Microsoft OOXML SDK Renews Standards Debate
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| The discussions over whether or not OOXML is worthy of being a standard is expected to heat up again.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Microsoft partners cosy up on interoperability
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| The company said existing partners, DataViz, Quickoffice, and Novell were all working on the new "Document Interoperability Initiative" to test incompatibilities and to make it easier to shift information between different formats.
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March 7, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Pressed Swedish Partners to Vote for Open XML
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| Microsoft Sweden offered 'marketing contributions' to encourage business partners to vote for the adoption of the Open XML format.
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August 30, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK
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| Open XML SDK 1.0 , available from the company's website, is designed to allow developers to produce code enabling their applications to create, access and manipulate Open XML documents, Microsoft said.
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June 13, 2008 |
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| Microsoft says it won't submit restrictive licenses for open-source approval
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| Just two to go before the Open Source Initiative.
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August 2, 2007 |
Provides Information |
| Microsoft to support ODF, PDF in Office next year
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| Support to be included in Office Service Pack 2.
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May 21, 2008 |
Provides Information |
| Microsoft to Support Two Eclipse Projects
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| At the EclipseCon event, Microsoft officials hinted that these first steps could lead to greater collaboration with the Eclipse community.
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March 19, 2008 |
Provides Information |
| Microsoft wading through 3,522 comments on Open XML standards bid
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| Vendor says it has started responding to objections from national standards bodies.
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November 20, 2007 |
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| Microsoft's ISO Win May Raise Antitrust Issues
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| Analysis: The European Commission's antitrust probe included scrutiny of Microsoft's bid for Office Open XML approval.
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April 2, 2008 |
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| Microsoft's Sponsored OOXML Study
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| Today, Microsoft made available an IDC study about so-called open desktop file formats. It's yet another Microsoft propaganda effort, as a crucial format standards vote approaches.
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August 27, 2007 |
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| Microsoft's standards bid stalled
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| Four countries have appealed a decision to fast-track the international standardisation of a Microsoft document format, called OpenXML.
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June 10, 2008 |
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| Microsoft, IBM Trade Barbs Over Support for Open XML
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| No company has invested more time and effort in lobbying against the use of Microsoft Corp.'s new Office Open XML document format than IBM has.
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January 28, 2008 |
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| Model train software spat threatens future of open source
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| Throws copyrights from the train.
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August 24, 2007 |
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| Open Office standards row heats up
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| Microsoft is facing growing criticism of its bid to have Office Open XML (OOXML) accepted as an international standard ahead of a crucial vote by the ISO scheduled for February.
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December 19, 2007 |
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| Open Source App Challenges Microsoft Project
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| Projity releases a desktop version of the project management tool originally offered as a service.
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September 29, 2007 |
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| Open source code crawling with fewer bugs
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| The security and quality of more than 250 open source projects - including Apache, Linux, Firefox and PHP - was assessed using code analysis tools from Coverity as part of the federal government's Open Source Hardening Project.
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May 21, 2008 |
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| Open Source Coders Keep Open Mind About Microsoft
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| Microsoft's promise of better interoperability drew mixed reaction from the open-source community.
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February 24, 2008 |
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| Open Source Decade: 10 years after the Free Software Summit
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| One of the most significant moments in the history of the modern software industry took place in 1998 when Netscape announced plans to release the source code of its browser under a license that would freely permit modification and redistribution.
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April 7, 2008 |
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| Open Source Developers Must Chart Clear Defense in the Patent Wars
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| The CEO of Barracuda Networks explains how the US patent system is broken and what open source developers can do to protect software innovation.
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November 2, 2007 |
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| Open source development goes Mac-tastic
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| There is no small irony in the prospect that Apple's Macintosh - arguably the ultimate in closed and proprietary systems, at least until the Intel alliance - could become the open source development platform of choice.
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October 1, 2007 |
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| Open Source Going Mainstream
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| Customers are now holding open-source software to the same standards that they do commercial apps.
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August 3, 2007 |
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| Open Source Group OKs Two Microsoft Licenses
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| The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has given its stamp of approval to two of Microsoft Corp.'s so-called shared-source software licenses, making them valid means of distributing open-source technologies.
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October 22, 2007 |
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| Open Source Leadership Lessons
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| Open source is changing the rules about how software is designed, created and distributed.
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July 23, 2008 |
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| Open source prima donnas to crush IBM, BEA and MS in 2008
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| If you have anything at all to do with open source software, you'll want to listen to Episode 2 of Open Season because there's a good chance we said something good or bad about you.
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September 14, 2007 |
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| Open Source Security Bugs Uncovered
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| The Department of Homeland Security has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects.
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January 9, 2008 |
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| Open source: It's time to get down to business
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| IT vendors are trying to make the open-source process better for business users. There's still work to do.
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March 24, 2008 |
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| Open XML Changes Get Put Down on Paper -- Lots of It
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| The standards body pushing Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document format for approval as an ISO standard published a 2,300-page document last week addressing complaints and suggestions made by ISO members.
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January 21, 2008 |
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| Open XML Negatively Impacting ISO Standards Body
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| Since the number of "principal" or "participating" (P-class) voting members of the International Organization for Standardization's JTC 1 SC 34 working group increased by eleven prior to last month's preliminary ballot on the approval process for Microsoft's Office Open XML format suite, participation by nearly all members on important matters other than OOXML appears to be waning.
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October 17, 2007 |
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| Open XML trumps ODF in document format fight, consulting firm says
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| Burton Group report recommends Open XML adoption, sees only 'minor role' for ODF.
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January 14, 2008 |
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| Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft
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| Hamilton "Hammett" Verissimo, the founder of the open-source Castle Project, is joining Microsoft on August 11 as a program manager on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF) team.
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July 18, 2008 |
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| Open-source code examined
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| In its "Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008," Coverity Inc. analyzed more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from more than 250 open-source projects.
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May 20, 2008 |
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| Open-Source Developers Speak Out About AMD
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| AMD started delivering on their word of providing GPU specifications to the open-source community without a Non-Disclosure Agreement, and now with the 2007 X Developer Summit having come to a close, we asked several key members of the X.Org community on how they judge AMD's recent move.
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September 15, 2007 |
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| Open-source Java could result in port to iPhone
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| With the first anniversary of open-source Java this week, a Sun Microsystems Inc. official said he believes the project could bear a sought-after fruit in the Java community: the porting of Java to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
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November 15, 2007 |
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| OpenDocument debate resumes in the Netherlands
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| While Microsoft's Office Open XML format slowly makes inroads towards acceptance as an international format, the Dutch government debates whether the software behind that format must also be open-source.
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December 11, 2007 |
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| OpenOffice.org Update Arrives
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| OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the free productivity application suite, was released today and is now available for download for a number of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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March 27, 2008 |
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| OSI approves Microsoft licenses as open-source
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| Group's board gives its OK to two of vendor's 'shared-source' licenses.
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October 16, 2007 |
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| OSI Calls for Major Revisions to Microsoft Permissive License
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| Critics say the Microsoft Permissive License is restrictive and incompatible with too many other open-source licenses.
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September 22, 2007 |
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| PDF2Office Pro 4.0 integrates with Office 2008
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| Recosoft on Thursday announced the release of PDF2Office Professional 4.0 for Mac OS X. It costs $129; upgrades from previous versions are priced at $59.
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February 7, 2008 |
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| Planned census to help firms track open-source software
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| Backers hope to measure open source's pervasiveness in business IT.
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December 13, 2007 |
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| Report Alleges Open-Source Security Breakdowns
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| A report sponsored by software security vendor Fortify Software accuses the open-source community of dropping the ball on security during the development process.
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July 21, 2008 |
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| Sony, HP get behind an open format for digital audio
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| Hewlett-Packard and Sony announced they will work together to develop a new generation of Digital Audio Tapes, called DAT 320, which will be built on an open standard so that other companies are able to contribute.
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July 15, 2008 |
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| South Africa Appeals ISO Vote on Microsoft OOXML Format
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| South Africa has appealed the adoption of the Microsoft-sponsored Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
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May 23, 2008 |
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| South Africa to appeal Open XML's ratification as a standard
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| Letters have been sent to both the International Standards Organization and the International Electrotechnical Commission saying the standardization process was flawed.
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May 29, 2008 |
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| Sun Dangles Cash Prizes for Open Source Coding
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| Sun will announce Wednesday a program to encourage application development in the open-source community.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| Sun Program Moving to Open-Source Model
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| The Java Community Process is evolving to accommodate the influence of open source.
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May 9, 2008 |
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| Sweden's OOXML vote declared invalid
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| The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) has declared its recent vote in favor of Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML format invalid.
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August 31, 2007 |
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| TEM Control and Image Acquisition Software Available as Open Source Code from FEI
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| FEI and The Scripps Institute have announced that the Leginon™ software system, an advanced solution for automated control and image acquisition from a transmission electron microscope (TEM), will now be available to the global scientific community as open source code.
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August 2, 2007 |
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| Thunderbird Flies: Mozilla Spins off E-mail Client
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| Mozilla has launched MailCo, a for-profit subsidiary seeded with $3 million plus open-source software.
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September 18, 2007 |
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| Top 10 Open Source Apps to Boost Productivity
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| In articles past, we've examined the up-and-coming open source projects to watch, open source applications you simply cannot live without, and other aspects of open source.
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October 3, 2007 |
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| Venezuela Joins Line Appealing OOXML Standard Approval
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| Venezuela has joined the list of countries that have lodged appeals against the adoption of an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format.
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June 2, 2008 |
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| Weak ISO support for changes to Open XML throws shadow over final approval
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| Critics say little discussion on the technical tweaks took place.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| What's Wrong with Open-Source Software?
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| Though the open-source movement isn't going to die anytime soon, it's looking a little ragged at the edges. And with the appearance of the onerous GPL v3 and the slow deterioration of the popular Firefox browser, I now wonder if open source may have been a fad, or perhaps just a more elaborate iteration of the shareware phenomenon in the 1980s.
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October 15, 2007 |
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| Will Facebook Go Open Source to Spite Google's Open Social Platform?
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| In what critics see as a response to Google's push to promote itsOpen Social platform, rumors have surfaced that Facebook will be making its application platform open source.
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May 27, 2008 |
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| Windows better off closed, says Microsoft
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| Open sourcing Windows is more hassle than it's worth and Microsoft sees little gain in releasing code, according to the man leading Microsoft's server marketing and platform strategy.
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March 10, 2008 |
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| Yahoo to Radically Open Its Platforms
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| Yahoo is swinging the doors of its Web platforms wide open to let outside developers create applications across its network of sites, as well as radically stitching together its online services under the social profile concept.
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April 24, 2008 |
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