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In the midst of searching for a new CEO, Yahoo is also still going about its business. To that end, CNET’s Stephen Shankland reports, the company is releasing its BrowserPlus software as open source. The move was to be expected, really, since Google Gears is already open source, Shankland says.
Lloyd Hilaiel made the announcement in […]

CNET News blogger and Alfresco VP Matt Asay makes an interesting point in Tuesday’s post, “Open Source Rules in a Bad Economy.”
It’s not the first time I’ve seen it, nor is it the first time I’ve written about it. But Asay doesn’t say that open source rules because the companies that use it don’t pay […]

Sun Microsystems isn’t exactly celebrating as the end of the year approaches. The company that open sourced Java and Solaris and then surprised everyone by acquiring open source database company MySQL for $1 billion recently reported a $1.7 billion loss and will be restructuring its business over the next year.
IT Business Edge blogger Rob Enderle hasn’t […]

Paying for open source seems an odd idea to some people. But as Serdar Yegulalp pointed out in his InformationWeek blog, Alfresco VP and CNET News blogger Matt Asay spoke to several CTOs this week who indicated they would rather pay open source companies for proprietary additions or extensions than contribute code. Asay said:
The interesting thing was that while the CTOs […]

A struggling Sun Microsystems joined forces with IBM earlier this month to launch the Open Document Format (ODF) Toolkit Union, an open source project aimed at making it easier for developers to build ODF applications.
Tectonic reported recently that Sun’s initial contribution included the application programming interface that will enable developers to read, write and work with ODF documents […]