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(Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT) InfoWorld - A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has been advocating for all open source all the time, in government and education.
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:35:53 GMT) InfoWorld - An open-source technology has been launched to help developers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 find duplicated code in their software projects.
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:56:52 GMT) NewsFactor - Mozilla Labs has rolled out an experimental Firefox plug-in that promises to streamline the way Web surfers manage the mountains of information online. Called Ubiquity, the proof-of-concept prototype is an experiment with two parts -- it's both an interface and a development platform, notes the plug-in's developer, Aza Raskin.
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:01:45 GMT) PC Magazine - Mozilla Labs on Tuesday introduced a language-based add-on for its Firefox browser that lets users insert data into e-mails or navigate the Web without switching back and forth between multiple windows.
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:40:00 GMT) InfoWorld - The Linux Foundation on Wednesday plans to announce an event enabling Linux users to interact with the Linux community, including high-level maintainers and developers.
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:50:47 GMT) NewsFactor - The Mozilla Foundation is on the verge of adopting a new software-programming technique that promises to dramatically improve the speeds at which browsers interact with the Web. The first step, the nonprofit organization said, will be to optimize the way that JavaScript runs in Firefox 3.1 -- the next incremental update to Mozilla's popular open-source browser.
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT) InfoWorld - Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp turn this month, with some key changes in the Web scripting technology's direction. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, has helped forge a consensus on how to proceed with the direction for JavaScript's improvements. "JavaScript was sitting still. It was stagnant," he says.
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:01:00 GMT) InfoWorld - Mainsoft, which enables developers to leverage Microsoft Windows development skills to build applications for other platforms, on Monday is introducing updates to development products for Java, Linux, and Unix, adding support for Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 IDE.
(Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:21:00 GMT) CNET - SEATTLE--Imagine your laptop is stolen.
(Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:40:00 GMT) InfoWorld - Mozilla this week is touting technology to boost performance of its JavaScript engine and Web applications.
(Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:29:21 GMT) PC Magazine - On Friday, Mozilla announced a new component in Firefox that will significantly speed up the browser's JavaScript performance.
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:48:58 GMT)  AP - Microsoft Corp., expanding on an alliance with Novell Inc., has agreed to buy as much as $100 million more for subscription certificates for Novell's Linux products, Novell said Wednesday.
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:20:11 GMT) Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to pay
software maker Novell Inc up to $100 million in
additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's
open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's
proprietary Windows software.
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT) InfoWorld - Microsoft on Wednesday is expanding its agreement to supply Linux support certificates from Novell, which originally was part of a controversial arrangement set in late 2006.
(Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:18:53 GMT)  NewsFactor - A new beta software development kit is out for Android, the open-source mobile operating system backed by Google. Version 0.9 of the SDK was announced Monday on the Android Developers Blog.
(Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:45:00 GMT) InfoWorld - Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation, the foundation said Monday.
(Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:56:15 GMT) NewsFactor - Commercial software developers, listen up: If you think open source is a free toolkit from which you can borrow at will, take a good look at Wednesday's legal ruling. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in New York City, where many intellectual-property cases are heard, overturned a Northern California court decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer, a pivotal case in open-source and Creative Commons law.
(Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:39:47 GMT) Reuters - A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled
that the holder of a copyright to a computer programming code
made available for free public download can enforce an
"open-source" copyright license to control future use of the
work.
(Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:21:17 GMT) PC Magazine - The open source community and tech-savvy model railroad enthusiasts were handed a victory Wednesday when an appeals court ruled that people who use open source content can be found guilty of copyright infringement if they do not adhere to the license terms set out by the creator.
(Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:15:00 GMT) InfoWorld - A beta release of the open source NetBeans 6.5 IDE is being offered by Sun Microsystems on Wednesday.
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