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  • Gosling looks down Sun's open road

    James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop.

  • The secrets of open source security

    The Linux vs. Windows security debate is a contest of examples, which stand in place of the concepts that comprise a larger, more fundamental question of what the security benefits and detriments are for the open source and closed source development models.

  • The best of open source and .NET development

    Imagine the power of running code created by Microsoft development tools on a Linux machine or including an open source component in a proprietary product. In an interview, author Brian Nantz explains how to do it.

  • Fix two serious Apache flaws

    Apache is beginning to rival IIS as a popular Internet target, which means admins need to be vigilant in keeping it patched. This includes a new software revision that fixes two vulnerabilities.

  • Microsoft learned from open source: Security boss

    The director of Microsoft's product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has learned security lessons from the wider software community.

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  • Microsoft: We'll open up more source code

    Microsoft's shared source chief Jason Matusow on how the programme will spread beyond platforms and whether Office source code will be released. The question is, does anybody want it?

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