A leading free software group has vowed to fight portions of a request to release information that could help the SCO Group in its legal battle against Linux.
The creator of Snort, the open-source Network-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), says the software is up for an overhaul.
Linux Australia's immediate past president believes moderate open source developers are being pushed into "a refugee situation" between the 'free software' and 'commercial' hardliners.
Novell hopes companies that deserted it for Microsoft in the nineties may come back to the fold following its acquisition of SuSE.
Open source anti-virus technologies are generating innovative ideas that should be adopted where possible, the head of technology for Sophos Asia-Pacific, Paul Ducklin, has told ZDNet Australia.
One of the big problems of the internet is that is practically impossible to keep up-to-date on preferred topics. You can limit your sources, but this can mean missing a lot of valuable data.
For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Eighteen months after the Federal Government severed an important lifeline for innovative Australian start-ups, a new $196 million program has been announced to help fill the Australian funding void. But will it really help?
Do you suffer from phantom monitor pain when you only have one monitor in your work environment, compared to two or more at home?
Jonathan Schwartz promoted a new theme of participation at JavaOne in San Francisco, with announcements about Java in Blu-ray development, a renewed partnership with IBM and the open sourcing of server-side Java.
The lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments, says former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn.
Bringing any new system into an established organisation, especially when it is a concept like open source, is a matter of selling the idea.
The rural Spanish region of Extremadura has seized on the potential of open-source software to improve the lot of its citizens and kick start the local economy.
So you've done the math and decided there may be a good business case for Linux after all. Just make sure you don't dive into the world of open source without fastening the rope securely to the bridge.
In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference.
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?
Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.
The OpenOffice.org group announces a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
Updated code for the heart of current Linux products was released Friday, in the first major revamp to the kernel since November.
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