opensource

Google on Monday released the first beta version of its software developer kit (SDK) for Android phones, a significant step in the company's hope for "open" phone technology.

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 intellectua

Open source licenses create a condition on the scope of the license – and thus expose violators to injunctions under copyright law – the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday.

A tech vendor-backed company will soon launch a Web site to help inventors file defensive publications - documents that make details of an invention public, preventing others from later making patent claims on it.

Linux is its own worst enemy because it keeps focusing on the wrong way to appeal to its would-be users.

Would you be willing to use proprietary software on a Linux PC, or must software be open source for you to be willing to install it?

Running on Ubuntu Linux, mock 'voters' try out an open-source e-voting system at LinuxWorld that runs on standard PCs and printers.

Company executives call on the open source community to do more to make Linux popular as a desktop OS for consumers and businesses.

Google may be trying to push more of its applications in netbooks, low-cost laptops designed to run basic applications for Web surfing and e-mail.

Bias is a versatile information management application, that is organizer. The key features of the application are: * open source (GPL) * cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS/Windows/Solaris/etc.) * portable * secure * extensible (addons) * flexible * usable