Open Source

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:13 pm

M$ opens up its old Office formats:

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/ar ... ormats.htm

The article says it's only for conversion to new Office formats so I'm not sure how open it is. If it's for everything, it's good.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:43 am

Sh!tty deal:

http://torrentfreak.com/shareaza-impost ... um-080225/

French RIAA does a hostile takeover of an open source company, violates the GPL, and then sues the original creators.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:50 am

Creator of Tetris says free software is horrible:

http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/26/1859249.shtml

I think he's still just bitter about losing out on licensing Tetris.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:38 am

10 years after the Free Software Summit:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture ... t-10th.ars

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:48 pm

M$ emails Blender and asks how they can help:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?stor ... 1115151164

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:25 pm

Why people don't get the free business model:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/26/1628246.shtml

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:36 pm

M$ free for a year:

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek ... ater-25078

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:37 pm

Munich and Vienna on going open source:

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/06/04/0043239.shtml

Munich stays the course while Vienna goes back.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:58 pm

The GPL was just found to have legal legs in court:

http://www.reuters.com/article/technolo ... 2920080814

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ement.html

Just because you give away your code for free does not mean you give away your copyright. What with all the copyright nonsense going on, I think this is good. They can't have it both ways.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:48 am

What between the economic hard times and the realization that (because of Vista) you don't need to upgrade your computer OS, open source is experiencing a surge:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/01/1555207.shtml

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/01/0317244.shtml

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:28 am

While open source doesn't necessarily mean Linux, I'll keep this post here.

M$ open source foundation, CodePlex, and an overview of it:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/18 ... ?art_pos=8

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:57 pm

Open source developer wins $100,000 in trial:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/22 ... art_pos=11

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:30 pm

Software consortium says that if you use open source, you're a pirate:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24 ... ?art_pos=4

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:12 pm

Coapp:

https://launchpad.net/coapp

Open source.........on windows?

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:25 pm

Ford uses Arduino and its own open source developer suite so that an app-like store is possible for its cars:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24030

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