Reviews (1)

  • Why Linux is a desktop dud

    Software engineer Don Soegaard writes that the GNU/Linux community can shelve its ambitions to challenge Windows if it keeps failing to develop easier-to-use productivity tools for desktop users.

News (32)

  • Sun considers GPL 3 licence for Solaris

    Sun Microsystems is considering a dual-licensing move that could raise tantalising possibilities of open-source cooperation between Linux and Sun's Solaris operating system, but legal issues complicate the possibility.

  • Open source fans offer differing views of MS move

    Open source developers and users have always been a sceptical group, but their opinions can shift for example, their loathing of Sun Microsystems diminished as Sun stopped attacking Linux and started moving towards open source software.

  • Eben Moglen predicts broad embrace of GPL 3

    The open-source legal expert is bullish about the prospects for the upcoming new version of the General Public License.

  • Sun looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris

    When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart.

  • Overhaul of GPL set for public release

    A major revamp of the General Public Licence is scheduled for public release next week, a move that's expected to kick off a long and vocal debate over the key foundation of open-source programming.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (12)

  • Did SCO open Unix source code?

    Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.

  • Sun reluctant to make Java open source

    Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said.

  • Microsoft opens up: Everything you need to know

    The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?

  • Linux in the virtual world

    Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software.

  • Microsoft learns to live with open source

    Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.

More Features and Case Studies >

Create an e-mail alert for "change"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
change


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 2 api
  2. Popularity: 1 carroll
  3. Popularity: 2 code
  4. Popularity: 1 computing
  5. Popularity: 1 demand
  6. Popularity: 1 developer
  7. Popularity: 1 dmca
  8. Popularity: 1 eric
  9. Popularity: 2 european union
  10. Popularity: 2 free software foundation
  11. Popularity: 1 free trade agreement
  12. Popularity: 1 fta
  13. Popularity: 1 gates
  14. Popularity: 1 hacker
  15. Popularity: 1 hacking
  16. Popularity: 2 ip
  17. Popularity: 4 java
  18. Popularity: 1 john
  19. Popularity: 1 kernel hacker
  20. Popularity: 3 licence
  21. Popularity: 1 licencing
  22. Popularity: 2 license
  23. Popularity: 1 linus
  24. Popularity: 24 linux
  25. Popularity: 1 linux servers
  26. Popularity: 2 microsoft
  27. Popularity: 2 microsystems
  28. Popularity: 1 mobility
  29. Popularity: 2 novell
  30. Popularity: 7 open
  31. Popularity: 14 open source
  32. Popularity: 1 open-source
  33. Popularity: 3 oss
  34. Popularity: 1 personal digital assistant
  35. Popularity: 1 raymond
  36. Popularity: 2 red hat
  37. Popularity: 7 sco
  38. Popularity: 1 servers
  39. Popularity: 4 shankland
  40. Popularity: 2 software
  41. Popularity: 2 solaris
  42. Popularity: 6 source
  43. Popularity: 3 stephen
  44. Popularity: 2 stephen shankland
  45. Popularity: 6 sun
  46. Popularity: 1 supply
  47. Popularity: 1 technology & business magazine
  48. Popularity: 1 technology&business
  49. Popularity: 7 unix
  50. Popularity: 2 windows

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Alex Serpo 64-bit Windows: It's time to get serious
    What do Windows 7 and Windows NT have in common? Despite being separated by 16 years, they're both available as 32-bit operating systems; and it's time for Microsoft to move on.
  • Array IE patch: Microsoft's eight days of hell
    It's always funny watching an event force a company to break old habits and this IE zero day was enough for Microsoft to do it. As Microsoft Australia's strategic security advisor Stuart Strathdee said "we pulled all stops to get this patch out".
  • Array Fowl play foiled, Telstra's fairy tale is over
    Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured