Sun Microsystems is recommending that nobody use an open-source licence it created, a small step in a broader push to pare back the number of such licences.
Australia's CSIRO research organisation has developed a Firefox plugin named Annodex that allows browsing through time-continuous media such as audio and video in the same way that HTML allows browsing through text.
Open source software does not come free of cost, and those who pay for it with their own sweat and effort are the ones who own it.
The software company is to open source its tool for connecting data sources to flash-based rich internet application.
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.
The Apache Software Foundation launches a project to develop Web application software based on Sun's Java.
Lead engineer Ben Goodger explains the behind-the-scenes decisions leading to the browser that's making Microsoft nervous.
Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale May 21 with a price of US$75.95 in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.
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