It sounds like the “show-down” between Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith and a panel of open-source backers at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) on March 25 didn’t plow any new ground. But it did reopen the question: Are Microsoft’s and the open-source community’s opposing positions on patents a dealbreaker?
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Mar26
Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?
Filed in: Microsoft
Mar26
Microsoft ‘Albany’: A ‘ValueBox’ to compete with Google Docs
While invited Microsoft testers still have not received any “Albany” code, theories regarding exactly what Albany is have gotten a lot more refined. It’s now sounding as if Albany is going to be Microsoft’s newest attempt to head off Google Docs — at least in the consumer space (which is where Google Docs is strongest).
Filed in: Microsoft
Mar26
Does open sourcing security framework lead to more secure software?
Red Hat recently open sourced the Red Hat certificate system - software for managing user identities and privacy on a network. However, does open sourcing security software make it more secure, or does opening the code lead to vulnerabilities? An excerpt from Washington Post: The Linux…
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