PC World - Trend Micro may have received more than it bargained for in its software patent dispute with rival Barracuda Networks. In the... -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Peter Cooper-Ellis has joined SpringSource to lead the development and product management of SpringSource Application Platform. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Just more than 10 years ago, Mozilla threw its open-source code into the public domain. Today, its browser -- Firefox -- is preparing to launch its third major release in hopes of continuing to eat away at Microsoft's Internet Explorer. -- read full article
PC World - Mozilla has set Tuesday for release of the next version of Firefox and an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for software... -- read full article
NewsFactor - Linux vendor Red Hat announced Wednesday that it has settled patent-infringement claims filed against it by two companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. -- read full article
PC World - OpenOffice.org has issued a patch for a security vulnerability affecting several versions of the open-source office suite. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple's 3G iPhone could become a strong competitor against the BlackBerry and weaken Google's initiative to build an open source operating system for smartphones. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Microsoft wants developers using the company's Team Foundation Server ALM (application lifecycle management) server to share process templates via a new project on the company's CodePlex site for open-source projects. -- read full article
Reuters - Business software maker Red Hat Inc
said on Wednesday that it has settled two of three
pending patent lawsuits that the company has been fighting.
AP - The EU's top antitrust official called Tuesday on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent jab at Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary technology. -- read full article
PC World - SourceForge.net's annual Community Choice awards highlight the most promising open source projects-- and the most troubled. -- read full article
Investor's Business Daily - The efforts of Google and others to push open-source software in cellular networks are nothing new and won't have a big impact, say executives with Microsoft and Nokia, the largest providers of smart phone software. -- read full article
