Entries from Thinking Tech tagged with 'Open Source'

Is Open Source Dying?

The article in eWeek with the title above really doesn't answer the question that is asked. It really answers the question, "Is open source dying in the public sector?" In California and Massachusetts, the state experiments that intend to use...

GPLv3 "Final" Draft Released

The newest version of the GNU (or General) Public License, GPLv3 has been generating controversy for months. At issue have been a number of issues of license compatibility (that is, what if my software is under GPLv2 and yours is...

Microsoft-Novell Deal

Open source software isn't exactly the same as FREE software but from the perspective of most business users, they look darn close to the same. The new version of the GPL (see the previous article) seems to take a pretty...