The Open Source Initiative, an influential open-source organization, is devising ways to cut down on the rising number of open-source licenses attached to software.
Microsoft will be submitting its various "shared source" licenses to the Open Source Initiative in the hope of being granted 'official' open source status.
The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 at noon on Friday (in the US).
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday released its latest Jini development toolkit under the Apache open-source licence.
Microsoft has responded to some of the concerns about its proposed server interoperability licence, but has not yet worked out how to stop disadvantaging open source vendors.
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Open-source database company introduces subscription-based service with tiered support, around the general public licence.
Many small and midsize companies harbour some level of trepidation regarding how dependent they have become on Microsoft software, according to a US survey.
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John Chen sits down in a Face to Face interview with ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber to talk about Sybase's high-end database, offered for free in a limited version to mainly small and midsize businesses. The CEO believes that as customer needs grow, they'll upgrade, paying Sybase for value-added tools that handle larger data sets, unstructured data, search, EII, federated databases and other functions.
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French Linux company MandrakeSoft takes a step away from the open-source philosophy, with a change to license terms involving customers that want support for a firewall product.
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Linux Labs has released a beta version of a Web browser for wireless-enabled Palm handhelds.
The new version of Microsoft's Windows CE code-sharing agreement must be popular because vendors have signed up to it, says the software giant.
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