Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie reckons open source programmers' freedom from answering to shareholders makes it a greater threat to Microsoft than Google.
Prominent legal counsel the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) said that the legal terms covering Microsoft's Open XML document formats pose patent risk to free and open-source software developers.
Adobe is preparing to open source development tools that will enable existing desktop and server software to run in Web browsers, according to reports.
Google has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) which will see it agree to cross-license open- source-related patents to other members free of charge.
Open source software project Samba has signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive protocol documentation for the software giant's Windows workgroup server products.
Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates.
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To encourage the broadest possible support for its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology, IBM will release an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into the next-generation storage system.
Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.
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