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Tech Source From Bohol: "Here are some of the most notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open source software.

Note that some software from this list are still published commercially alongside their free and open-source version."

Windows developers are a step closer to being able to run their programs on Linux with the 2.0 release of Mono , an open source version of the .NET platform.

Google Inc. is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system as apossible prelude to running it alongside Linux in its massive global network of servers, ...

Likewise Software has released a new, open-source version of its eponymous AD (Active Directory) program for integrating Linux, Unix and Mac systems into AD.

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OpenMoko today said that it will start selling the Neo FreeRunner to the US on July 4th, marking its first phone release in the country.

The touchscreen device is positioned as an unusual competitor to the iPhone whose strength is in its open access: based on a strictly open-source version of Linux, the device includes j

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Could there be a bigger threat than Linux to Microsoft's OS dominance? If an open-source version of Windows can be developed that is totally compatible with the abundance of Windows drivers—the idea behind ReactOS—then Microsoft will have to go back to work.

Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching the first official release of Sun's open-source version of the Solaris operating system.

Interested developers have had early preview versions to play with for some time, but the official release opens to door for corporate customers as well.