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Sun: Open source is about self-interest

Sun's chief open source officer has told a conference to forget volunteerism and ideals, and think more like Warren Buffett. Read more »

Mozilla: Firefox licence in Ubuntu was a 'giant error'

Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox web browser, has admitted it made a mistake by including an end-user licence agreement in a Firefox beta used in the Intrepid Ibex version of Ubuntu. Read more »

Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility

As the Open Handset Alliance released the preliminary SDK for the mobile Linux platform, Google revealed that members have signed a 'non-fragmentation agreement' Read more »

Security tools ready for Vista launch

Microsoft is promoting Windows Vista as the most secure version of its operating system yet--but it's still recommending outside help to shield against common cyberthreats. Read more »

High alert for open source?

Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday. Read more »

Microsoft rallies developers behind Vista

As it readies Vista for launch, Microsoft is looking to build momentum behind new applications - and trying to avoid the pitfalls of incompatibilities. Read more »

Sun 'distorts' definition of free software

Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community by appearing to misrepresent what open source is. Read more »

Sun, JBoss J2EE compliance tiff continues

Sun Microsystems has made an important Jave compliance test available to JBoss Group--the latest manoeuvre in an ongoing scuffle between the industry giant and the upstart open-source software company. Read more »

Mozilla 1.0 unleashed

More than four years after its inception, the open-source browser is ready for the public. And its impact could go beyond browsing Read more »

Siebel and Ellison: Software's odd couple

Few people in the high-tech industry have feuded as openly as Oracle's flamboyant CEO Lawrence Ellison and Thomas Siebel, the co-founder and chairman of rival enterprise software maker Siebel Systems. Read more »

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Developer Interview: Larry Constantine

Builder Australia recently caught up with software design pioneer Larry Constantine to talk about usability and UI design in today's software. Read more »

Are key performance indicators a true measure?

Some managers love to look solely at numbers when assessing performance, and key performance indicators are right up their street. But how useful are they in the context of software development? Read more »

Don't believe the hype(ware)

Are product delays a fact of life or are they being used as a marketing tool? Read more »

Unix pioneer an open-source killjoy?

Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings. Read more »

Beyond the barriers: What women want in IT

Is it time to accept that females lack IT or is lack of support and enduring stereotypes keeping women away? Ella Morton investigates. Read more »

Torvalds: What, me worry?

In this interview Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, sounds off on the SCO lawsuit, patents and the future of Linux. Read more »

Is Caldera moving away from Linux?

Caldera's name change to SCO Group has prompted fears that the company is abandoning Linux. The CEO says this is not true. Read more »

Web services: Messiah or mirage?

Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today. Read more »

Keeping the door open...and shut

A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like? Read more »

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