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Monday, I mentioned Google had removed the CoreAVC-for-Linux open source project from its Google Code pages. The company did so in response to a take down notice issued under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. CoreCodec asserted that the Google project linked to code owned by CoreCodec.
Tuesday, News.com’s Stephen Shankland reported the project is back on Google […]

“Open source is more secure.” How many times have we said or heard that? Too many to count, really. But PCWorld.com’s Neil McAllister points something out in an article published in The Washington Post:
[O]pen source’s supposed security advantage assumes three things: 1.) Someone is actually looking at the code; 2.) Security vulnerabilities are getting reported and […]

Open source isn’t dead, says the silicon.com columnist known as The Naked CIO, it’s just limited to those niche areas in which it has reached maturity, such as the Web and network security. The beginning of his piece indicates that open source evangelists and open source developers still have a lot of work to convince […]

In response to a formal take down notice issued by CoreCodec on April 30 under the Digital Millineum Copyright Act, Google has removed the CoreAVC-for-Linux project from its Google Code Web pages.
News.com blogger Stephen Shankland reports:
CoreAVC itself is proprietary software for Windows supplied by a company called CoreCodec. The software can play video encoded with […]

With its Open Screen Project, Adobe has removed licensing restrictions on its Flash technology, according to ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette. The source code is still proprietary, but the company has published the SWF specification for the Flash player’s format, as well as the device porting layer APIs, which can now be used free of charge. […]