Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
A day later, everyone's seemingly alive but Windows still isn't 'free.'
A day later, everyone's seemingly alive but Windows still isn't 'free.'
Stormy Peters, most recently a senior community manager with Red Hat, is now director of Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office.
Developers, rev your engines. Sun is jettisoning 9 million lines of StarOffice code into open source on Friday.
Just over a week after reports that Attachmate/Novell was axing the team that developed the Mono open-source implementation of .Net, Miguel de Icaza announced plans to keep the technology alive via a new startup, Xamarin.
Microsoft has begun delivering some of the additional HTML5 tooling for Visual Studio programmers that company officials said would be coming some time this year.
Don't look now, but Microsoft is continuing to open source many of its own technologies, even though it is still competing with Linux and Android vendors.
A split in the open-source ranks at Samba rekindles fears about the potential pitfalls and perils of forking Linux.
Open source backers may aspire to a world in which software rivalries are a thing of the past. But at least for now, there's an undeniable rift forming within the ranks.
Two keepers of open-source code -- the CodePlex Foundation and the OpenOffice.org Project -- have rebranded themselves as of September 28.
I'm hearing Microsoft may be gearing up to deliver new standalone dev tools for building HTML5 client applications, and also may be adding HTML5 support to Visual Studio. Could Mix '11 be the launch pad for these efforts?