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Matt Mullenweg
AS Profile Texas-born Mullenweg founded Automattic in 2005 and is seen by some as one of the most influential people on the web due to the work his company has done to produce highly regarded open source blogging applications, many of which are... [29 Sep 2009]
What made Microsoft open up to Linux? Ask Novell
News Linux veteran - and Novell fellow - Greg Kroah-Hartman suggested to Microsoft about four months ago that the company might release the three drivers to be part of Linux under the GNU General Public License (GPL) terms... [22 Jul 2009]
Microsoft dishes out code for inclusion in Linux
News As noted by CNET Blog Network writer Matt Asay, Microsoft is releasing three drivers for Linux under the GPL that governs Linux. Although Microsoft has released open-source code in the past, the company has generally... [21 Jul 2009]
High Availability Messaging Solution Using the AXIGEN Mail Server, Heartbeat and DRBD
White Paper AXIGEN is a proprietary messaging solution while both Heartbeat and DRBD are open source software released under the GNU Public License (GPL). In today's business environments, they often hear the term 'High-availability'. [23 Apr 2009]
Legal Eye: Do we need GPLv3?
Comment Version 3 of the GPL is clearer than its predecessor in many ways. GPL version 3 Open source licensing is a complex legal concept so it was perhaps inevitable that by 2007 numerous limitations in... [15 Oct 2008]
Jeremy Allison
AS Profile Computer programmer Jeremy Allison is one of the co-founders and leading developers of the Samba team that developed a suite of open source software in 1992, released under the GNU general public license (GPL), that... [07 Oct 2008]
A GPL Linux Device Driver for the EIB
White Paper This paper deals with a Linux low-level hardware driver for the RS-232 Data Interface of the European Installation Bus (EIB). The RS-232 Data Interface is based on the widely used Bus Coupling Unit 1 (BCU1), which requires a complex... [01 Oct 2008]
Building Ethernet Drivers on RTLinux-GPL
White Paper This paper describes how to port Linux Ethernet drivers to RTLinux-GPL (hereafter RTLinux). It presents an architecture that will let Linux and RTLinux to share the same driver while accessing an Ethernet card. [08 Jul 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and wrote the most widely used open-source licence, GPL, now in version 3. Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of... [10 Jun 2008]
Skype drops open-source appeal
News The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product but Skype's WSKP100 phone was sold without giving users access to the source code, according to a case brought by gpl-violations.org, a group... [12 May 2008]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Mark Taylor, the founder of the Open Source Consortium, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday it was "great that Java is at some point in the future going to be fully open source and GPL", but added that the... [28 Apr 2008]
Microsoft strikes back at open source critics
News Another problem with the Open Specification Promise (OSP), according to the SLFC, is that it is not consistent with the General Public License (GPL), which requires any derived works also be open. Knowlton wrote: "As far... [18 Mar 2008]
Wasabi Certified BSD
White Paper Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a certified, tested, and optimized version of the NetBSD operating system, offering the rich functionality of BSD Unix without Linux's troublesome GPL License and with the security of... [12 Mar 2008]
Lawyer: Microsoft can evade GPL 3
News Microsoft should be able to extricate itself from the implications of the new GPL 3, according to a leading Australian intellectual property lawyer. The question is, do Microsoft's actions regarding the [support... [26 Jul 2007]
Sun's Solaris to get that Linux feeling?
News However, Schwartz has talked frequently of the possibility of releasing Solaris under the GPL that governs Linux, which - if both operating systems use the same version of the GPL - would theoretically... [10 May 2007]
