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- Komodo Edit (Windows) 5.2.2 (Windows)
- Komodo Edit, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings. Komodo Edit is built on the Mozilla code base and is now licensed under the same...
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- Kobo Deluxe 0.5.1 (Mac)
- Kobo Deluxe is a retro arcade shooter, where you fly through enemy formation destroying their tangled star fortresses. The game was created by Akira Higuchi and updated by David Olofson. Since the game is open source (GPL, LGPL), we decided to fix some bugs and bring the latest version to...
- Software downloads 2009-10-30
- Did Stallman fisk himself?
- boogeyman?the most irritating thing about stallman is not his "political incorrectness" or his "shooting from the lip," but that is he is so often right. that really gets under your skin.I hate to agree...I've always felt that RMS is irritating, obnoxious and downright rude. However, anyone who dismisses what...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future
- paranoia againi remember paranoia when sun bought openoffice and mysql...look they are still here!!!and oracle bought sun...people will be paranoid for some time, and than that story will go to oblivion just like any other paranoid story in open source world.Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQLand also 5 billions...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Oracle won't spin-off MySQL despite EU
- They really do not have to spin off MySQL, as it can be forked. I am looking forward to a community version of MySQL with LGPL libraries to link against.Ooooh look, aren't the dinosaurs cute NT
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Habanero 2.3.1 (Windows)
- Habanero is an enterprise application framework for .Net that produces an agile application from the data layer through to the front-end. Free open source under the LGPL license, it includes ORM, code generation and runtime UI generation to create one application for the desktop & Web. Support is included for...
- Software downloads 2009-09-10
- Europe can stick a fork where its mouth is
- Problem with your thinking...Sun owns the copyright. That means that they can rebrand the license. If you fork it, it is GPL forever. Thus you are definitely loosing out.Your argument would have made sense if Sun would have said, "hey we are going to release this under the Apache license."...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- KonaKart 4.1 (Windows)
- KonaKart is an affordable Java based shopping cart software solution for online retailers. It consists of a feature rich store front application and a browser based administration application using AJAX technology to give a productive and snappy interface. KonaKart contains easy to use Java APIs and a SOAP Web Service...
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 (Windows)
- OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites....
- Software downloads 2009-08-31
- xTuple 3.3 open source ERP debuts
- xTuple is making its open source ERP platform more sophisticated and easier to use. The xTuple 3.3 release, which was announced today at the start of OpenSource World, offers support for international taxation and distribution requirements planning as well as numerous usability improvements. "We're...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time
- The June 2009 (2009.06) release of OpenSolaris provides a solid Open Source GNOME desktop experience like that of a modern Linux distribution combined with the scalability and stability of UNIX. Over the weekend, I had the chance to take a look at Sun...
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Black Duck calls Microsoft open source mainstream
- Black Duck calls Microsoft open source mainstreamI don't know about you.......but Codeplex seems to have a long way to go to be as big or important as Sourceforge. 9,000 projects vs 230,000. I think I read that Google Code had around 50,000 a while back and they started off after...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Apache or GPL?
- Apache or GPL?Are pigs flying.This was an unbiased article and an excellent read.Name me one company that makes a LOT of moneyusing GPL'd code.Hint: $25 million a YEAR Red Hat earnings is NOT a lot of money.$9.74 billion a QUARTER Apple IS a lot of money.False Premise"On the other hand,...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Clash of the Touch Titans: iPhone 3.0 3G vs Samsung OmniaHD S60 device
- Clash of the Touch Titans: iPhone 3.0 3G vs Samsung OmniaHD S60 deviceWhy bother????Seriously Matt... Why bother???We are not going to see anything that can come close to the iPhone user experience for at least a decade. Will we see an iPhone killer at some point??? Yes, we will.Will it...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- Java Neural Network Framework Neuroph 2.2 (Windows)
- Neuroph is lightweight Java neural network framework to develop and simulate common neural network architectures. It contains well designed Java library with small number of basic classes which correspond to basic NN concepts, and also has nice GUI neural network editor. It has been released as open source under the...
- Software downloads 2009-04-07
- Debian gets FreeBSD kernel support
- Debian gets FreeBSD kernel supportDebian on a FreeBSD kernelThis is good news. The BSD distributions have fallen so far behind the Linux distros in terms of ease-of-use and installation that I'll be happy to see what Debian brings to the table. I'll have to try out kFreeBSD this...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- Europe gets its own GPL
- Europe now has its own version of the GPL. It's got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept. The European Union Public License is an effort by EU government services to codify a Euro-centric view of copyleft,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Sinonimos 1.0 (Mobile)
- Maybe the most inexpensive, blistering, movable and elegant way to look up Spanish synonyms. Features: 1. Work offline: just download and install it- that is all you need from the Internet to search for Spanish synonyms. 2. Smart Search: suggested headwords will appear while you type in. 3. Easily navigate...
- Software downloads 2009-03-13
- VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open
- Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on the community Google Code site their clean room implementation of VMFS, the clustered locking file system used by VMWare's ESX Server hypervisor...
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
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