Linux
openSUSE 10.3 Public Release
Oct 4, 2007 8 pm
openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies.
Developer Software
Microsoft to release .Net as Shared Source
Oct 3, 2007 2 pm
Microsoft is making source code for the .Net Framework available to interested developers under its Shared Source license, the company announced on October 3.
Microsoft will be rolling out the .Net code piecemeal, after scrubbing comments. It plans to start with the .Net Base Class Libraries, ASP.Net, Windows Forms, ADO.Net, XML (System.XML) and the Windows Presentation Foundation, blogged Microsoft Developer Division General Manager Scott Guthrie. Over time, the company also plans to make available the source code for Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Guthrie said.
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Software
Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks
Oct 3, 2007 2 pm
Why Sun choose a license they won’t accept themselves?
Kohei Yoshida wrote a long post on the history of Calc Solver, an optimization solver module for the Calc component of OpenOffice.org. After three years of jumping through Sun’s hoops on his own time, Sun says it will duplicate the work because Kohei doesn’t want to sign over ownership of the code.
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Business
MS Awarded "Best Campaigner Against OOXML"
Oct 1, 2007 7 pm
Microsoft itself is the surprise winner of the FFII’s Kayak Prize 2007, offered by the FFII in its call for rejection of Microsoft’s OOXML standards proposal.
The software monopolist is honored as “Best Campaigner against OOXML Standardization.” FFII president Pieter Hintjens explains, “We could never have done this by ourselves. By pushing so hard to get OOXML endorsed, even to the point of loading the standards boards in Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, and beyond, Microsoft showed to the world how poor their format is. Good standards just don’t need that kind of pressure.”
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Security
OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems
Sep 25, 2007 3 pm
Vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers.
OpenOffice version 2.0.4 and earlier versions are vulnerable to maliciously crafted TIFF files, which can be delivered in an e-mail attachment, published on a Web site or shared using peer-to-peer software.
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Software
The Uncertain Future of OpenOffice.org
Sep 19, 2007 12 pm
Though spun out by Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2000, OpenOffice.org remains almost totally under the control of Sun employees working full-time on the project. Will IBM save the project from itself?
“What’s the biggest threat to the success of OpenOffice.org? Is it Microsoft Office? Is it the simple fact that Dell doesn’t offer it with computers? Not according to some participants in the ‘open’ source project itself, they say the biggest problem with OO.o is the fact that Sun codes, owns & makes all key decisions for the project when it should be more community oriented.
Business
Apache losing ground in big companys
Aug 20, 2007 4 am
More evidence is emerging that Apache is suffering against Redmond, after a survey revealed that Microsoft’s Internet Information Services web server is outserving Apache on Fortune 1000 websites. In the past ytear, Microsoft grew to 36.2% of all active websites, while Apache lost nearly a million website names, as its share of active websites fell to 48.4%.
