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Submission + - Microsoft: We'll consider any license (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @01:35PM

dp619 writes: Microsoft's contribution of GPL-licensed drivers to the Linux kernel community signals that it is open to participate in open-source projects, regardless of the license, said Sam Ramji, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy. However grand Microsoft's intentions may be, an analyst views it less as altruism than as a targeted move by Microsoft to further its virtualization strategy

Submission + - Mono outpaces Java in Linux desktop development (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @02:21PM

dp619 writes: Mono, a framework based on Microsoft technology, has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java, but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, SD Times is reporting. The story also touches on the failure of Linux distros to keep pace with Eclipse.

Submission + - Borland Acquisition Now in Doubt (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:14PM

dp619 writes: SD Times is reporting that Micro Focus' bid to acquire Borland Software is not a done deal. Filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that a counter proposal could be in the works, and in a separate action, a law firm is soliciting disaffected shareholders for a class action against the company's board of directors.

Submission + - Cheaters gaming IT certifications (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @02:12PM

dp619 writes: Don't judge a developer by his or her certifications. Cheaters are coordinated, and the answers to exams are easily located on the Web. Would-be cheaters share word-for-word certification test questions and advise others on how to dodge company enforcers in Web forums. SD Times reports that Web sites, including certcollection.org, examcollection.com and (until recently) sadikhov.com, host forums where members share advice, experience, and even actual word-for-word Microsoft certification test questions known in the cheating community as "MS brain dumps."

Submission + - Microsoft moves crash analysis tool to open source (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Friday March 20, 2009 @09:57AM

dp619 writes: As part of its ongoing attempt to secure the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft is releasing an automation tool that it says will help testers determine the uniqueness of crashes and drill down into whatever security implications might exist.

Submission + - TomTom can license FAT without violating the GPL (sdtimes.com) 1

Submitted by dp619 on Thursday March 12, 2009 @04:02PM

dp619 writes: Capped per-unit royalties make FAT licensing agreements permissible under the GPL, and SD Times has found that Microsoft's public license policy caps royalties at $250k. If the royalties are capped — as they seem to be — TomTom should be able to license FAT without violating the GPL. And if that is the case.... TomTom needs some serious explaining to do as to why they aren't licensing FAT. That said, Microsoft still needs to explain why it just cannot say that folks won't violate the GPL if they license FAT under its terms.

Submission + - Windows Server activation flaw bypasses activation (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @01:12PM

dp619 writes: SD Time's David Worthington blogged that a flaw in how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 calculates the time remaining until it must be activated could enable users to potentially run the server for years before activation. The defect is a consequence of Microsoft failing to assess its virtualization strategy, an analyst said.

Submission + - Sam Ramji: GPL is challenging for Microsoft (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:22PM

dp619 writes: Microsoft acknowledges that the GNU General Public License is an important license, but the company believes that it is too challenging to work with. That's the view of Sam Ramji, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy. Explaining why Microsoft believes that the GPL presents challenges, Ramji said, "I am personally fairly pragmatic, so I value things working well together--heterogeneous systems, hybrid licensing, multiple development models. I think the GPL is designed toward exclusivity rather than heterogeneity. That produces challenges in how we approach it."

Submission + - Eclipse Foundation snuggles up to Microsoft (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Monday January 26, 2009 @05:16PM

dp619 writes: The Eclipse Foundation is looking for opportunities to work more closely with Microsoft, says Mike Milinkovich, its executive director. He said that Eclipse is already working with Microsoft on a Silverlight project and would like to work with other Microsoft product groups in the company's developer and connected systems divisions. Meanwhile, at least one observer is skeptical about whether a close Microsoft-Eclipse partnership would truly be a win-win scenario.

Submission + - Microsoft donates code to Apache 'Stonehenge' (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dp619 on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @06:30PM

dp619 writes: Several months after joining the Apache Foundation, Microsoft has made its first code contribution to an Apache project. The project, known as Stonehenge, is made up of companies and developers seeking to test the interoperability of Web standards implementations.

Comment Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. (Score 1) 1574

by dp619 on Thursday July 10, 2008 @10:34AM (#24133959) Attached to: Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law

It was not just homosexual pedophiles - young girls were abused as well. There church is also a fault: It groomed young men to become priests at an early age, and many never went experienced normal sexuality. The theory goes that psychologically, they remained children themselves. And let's not forget their knowing disregard of it all. It was complicit.

Microsoft Suggests Carving Up HTML 5 113

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 24, 2008 @11:05AM from the slice-and-dice dept.

dp619 writes "HTML 5 is extensive and may take years to complete. Microsoft's solution to hasten its development is to carve it up. The company wants to divide HTML 5 into sub-specifications overseen by different working groups. Internet Explorer platform architect Chris Wilson said that HTML 5 features including its Canvas APIs, offline caching of Web applications' resources, persistent client-side data storage, and peer-to-peer (P2P) networking connection framework would be useful outside of HTML. The WC3 seems to be receptive to the idea and says that a consensus is forming among working group members to do just that."

Sun to Fully Open Source Java 374

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @05:20PM from the free-refills dept.

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf brings news that Sun Microsystems will be removing the last restrictions on Java to make it completely open source. Sun wants Java to be easily available for use in Linux distributions. We've discussed the steps Sun has taken to open-source Java over the past couple years. From Yahoo! News: "'We've been engaging with the open-source community for Java to finish off the OpenJDK project, and the specific thing that we've been working on with them is clearing the last bits that we didn't have the rights,' to distribute, Sands said. 'Over the past year, we have pretty much removed most of those encumbrances.' Work still needs to be done to offer the Java sound engine and SNMP code via open source; that effort is expected to be completed this year. Developers, though, may be able to proceed without a component like the sound engine, Sands said.

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