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Legal Issues Associated with Open Source and Free Software Projects
This is a must read if you or your organization associated with open source software project. If you are interested in a basic understanding of the legal issues that impact FOSS development and distribution, this primer is for you. The guide, written for developers, has sections on copyrights, trademarks, patents, organizational structure and other legal [...]
Microsoft DreamSpark: Giving Away Developer Software
It appears that Bill has finally figured out success of open source software. Microsoft Corp. is giving students free access to its most sophisticated tools for writing software and making media-rich Web sites, a move that intensifies its competition with Adobe Systems Inc. and could challenge open source software’s popularity. Students can download complete working [...]
Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux Top Enterprise Open-source Software
Both distros top in 260 countries; From the report:
Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco’s community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage. Alfresco collected data between July and December of last year, with survey participants [...]
Open Source Guide for Small and Medium Enterprise / Business
This is an excellent set of guides encouraging FLOSS for small and medium size enterprises / business. From the guide:
Open source software is the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s”. This is one of the conclusions of a recent IDC report [IDC 06], which shows [...]
FOSSology: Track Open Source Software Within Your Company
Hewlett-Packard has launched the FOSSology Project, a tool for tracking and monitoring the use of free and open-source software within an IT environment. The FOSSology Project is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) project built around an open and modular architecture for analyzing software. Existing modules include license analysis, meta data extraction, and MIME type [...]
Sun Microsystems to Acquire MySQL Database Server
This is yet another successful story for open source software. Sun has no database software to sell in a $15 billion market that Oracle leads, according to IDC study. Congratulations, Monty, David and the crew.
Now, Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source [...]
Open Source Alternative to Commercial Software
Webi has published a very comprehensive list of alternative “open source” applications to mainstream applications. It includes office applications, multimedia, graphics, networking and security applications.
=> Free and Open Source Software Directory (FLOSS/FOSS) [webi.org]
How to: Setup Asterisk PBX Easily with AsteriskNOW in 30 minutes
Asterisk PBX (private branch exchange) is an open source telephone system. Like any PBX, it allows a number of attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
Setting up Asterisk is considered as a difficult task. Building a VoIP Linux server with [...]
How to: Install and Setup XEN Virtualization software on CentOS Linux 5
One of our regular reader asks:
I’m using CentOS Linux 5 server. How do I set up Xen on Linux ? How do I install guest VPS oses such as Fedora or Windows 2000 or Debian Linux inside XEN?
Xen is a free open source software virtual machine monitor for Intel / PowerPC architectures. It is software [...]
Notes from a freed.in ~ FOSS conference in New Delhi with videos
I missed FOSS conference in New Delhi ~ over 700 people, two days of sheer fun, excitement and lots of FOSS I was in Chennai.. anyway freed.in is the leading community event in the Indian sub-continent and the developing world, promoting freedom in technology, software and other related fields, and personal privacy. The [...]