open source code

Linux Magazine: "The practice of law is a knowledge, information, and document-intensive profession. In many respects, lawyers ply their trade in the same way independent programmers do: we sell our expertise, experience and technical skill in using what is, essentially, the aboriginal "open" source code -- the code of laws and courtroom procedure."

November 15, 2008 12:01 AM Virtualization has long been the realm of proprietary software, starting with IBM mainframes and more recently VMware becoming a $1.3 billion-a-year powerhouse around x86 computers.

OStatic: "While code review started out as a physical meeting process, there's been increasing interest in supporting distributed code reviews via the web.

A recent tool release from Google, Rietveld, brought this back into the news - but there are other tools that are probably a better fit for most organizations."

Text size + - 'Google phones' run on Android platform Android code released for anyone to work on G1: Google rolls out Android to rival iPhone GOOGLE has released the open-source code which powers its Android ...

The Open Handset Alliance has made available for download the open source code behind Google's Android mobile handset software.

"While this doesn't technically make Microsoft a distributor of these open-source "bits," it comes pretty darn close, and it arguably puts Microsoft on the legal hook for this open-source code.

OSRM provides Open Source code audit and scanning, training and education, best practices, and Open Source insurance.

A new application based on the Open Source product Egroupware is now competing with MS Exchange and Lotus Domino.

Being based on Open source code, it is a fraction of the price of Microsoft or IBM's offerings, but is far more robust and multi-functional.

Open Source apps like CITmail will soon see the overprised giants slaign!

CodeWeavers, a company which sells a proprietary version of Wine, has released an easily installable package for running Google Chrome on Linux.

CrossOver Chromium is a modified version of Chromium (the open source code which runs Google Chrome) combined with CodeWeaver’s modified version of Wine.

Open source code is popular among developers because of its low cost, wide availability, and active support forums.