277 blog results for "GPL"

Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

For many within the open-source community, it's easier to hate Microsoft than to engage it. This is a mistake, and won't help open source solve its own problems.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Microsoft confirms that a tool intended to allow Netbooks to more easily move to the new operating system was based in-part, and unintentionally, on open-source code.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

It's very possible to be completely open-source without being completely open, but this may fade as more companies learn to use open source effectively.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Software giant takes down tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on Netbooks after blogger raises question about whether the software improperly uses open-source code.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

Open source has evolved dramatically in the past few years, as IT and business strategists have rushed to embrace it.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Now that open source has gone mainstream, we no longer need to sell its raison d'etre, but rather how best to leverage it for business benefit.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Richard Stallman acknowledges that the GPL can't guarantee software freedom, but Apache licensing just might.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Just because you're not forking over any money doesn't mean you're not paying a price for that freeware.

Posted in Workers' Edge by Dennis O'Reilly

Without profits, open source would never have evolved from a relatively obscure hobbyist phenomenon.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay