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Google Code reverses open source licence ban

Google has undone an earlier ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open source projects hosted at its Google Code site. Read more »

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Offline YouTube and Gmail makes sense: Google

Taking all Google properties offline would make sense eventually to Google's Australia and New Zealand engineering director, Alan Noble. Read more »

FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices

FreeBSD is hoping to move beyond the server and desktop market by tackling wireless devices. Read more »

Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flaws

Google released a free tool Tuesday that should help Web developers find and fix cross-site vulnerabilities. Read more »

Sun sheds light on its open-source future

Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development. Read more »

Joy hails Web as platform for the future

Sun's cofounder thinks Google could supplant Microsoft, 'with the Web as a platform' Read more »

Sun's Fortran replacement goes open-source

Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress. Read more »

OpenOffice celebrates turning 2.0

Programmers released version 2 of OpenOffice.org on Thursday, a major overhaul to an open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office. Read more »

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Google: Open source lets us control our destiny

Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, gave the opening keynote at the Open Source Developer's Conference. Builder AU caught up with him to discuss why Google uses open source, how the company open sources its software and what it is like to be a comic book character. Read more »

A look inside Google's open source kitchen

Google's Chris DiBona says the search giant has a lot of involvement in open source, but is also a firm believer in proprietary software. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Hitting the Seam with Gavin King

Gavin King is the founder of Hibernate and JBoss Seam, open source projects that attempt to make life as an enterprise Java developer easier. We sat down and discussed enterprise Java, open source and other tidbits related to Java. Read more »

Aussie coders changing the world

Though they may not be household names like Thorpie or Lleyton, Aussie developers rank among the world's best. Simon Sharwood profiles our top five geeks. Read more »

Are open source databases for real?

Free and open-source software is making a splash in the world of databases. But is it reliable enough for your critical applications? Read more »

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XO to run XP

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When Bill Gates says that everything in the world should be a computer, what he means is that everything in the world should be running Windows. Read more »

AUUG conference gets a peek inside Google

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google is poised to give their first public insight into the management of their clustered architecture at the annual AUUG conference in Melbourne next week. Read more »

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