Google Highly Open Participation Contest is a global program that is an analogue of the Google Summer of Code program (SoC) targeted at high school students.
Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the UK open-source community, has warned about complacency over the security of open-source projects.
IBM on Monday joined the OpenOffice.org community, providing a boost to supporters of the OpenDocument Format (ODF).
Microsoft has simplified its programme for sharing source code in an effort to work better with third parties.
Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualisation, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development.
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One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.
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.
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Palm OS retains its current 5.2.1 version number, but incorporates a number of enhancements that make it more competitive with Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC.
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME) preview has just landed in PC Magazine Labs. Our first take: very similar to Windows 98, but under the hood, improvements to the core OS and some impressive digital media features.
The Linux, Windows and Solaris versions of StarOffice share file formats, finally making it available to most computer users. Like its predecessor, StarOffice 6.0 is a full-fledged office suite and won't cost a cent when you download it from the Net.
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