Coders decry Silverlight change
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Programmers say they have been "betrayed" by Microsoft as it changes strategy on its core web technologies Silverlight.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
dkd903 writes "We all knew it would come to this, and it has finally happened — 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way."
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The VLC-iOS license dispute and how it could spread to Android
The VLC-iOS license dispute and how it could spread to Android
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Video fanatics were thrilled when an iOS version of VLC made its way to the App Store recently. Finally, users could watch all manner of videos in a number of codecs from their iPhones or iPads, just like they do with the (ever-popular) VLC desktop clients. That may not last forever, though: a wrench has now been thrown into the mix by one of the many VLC code contributors, leading to a complex dispute over VLC's GNU Public License (GPL) and whether an app released through the App Store—or any mobile OS store, for that matter—violates that license.
Many of our readers are already quite familiar with VLC—the software is available for many platforms as open source through the GPLv2. VLC is promoted and managed by the nonprofit association VideoLAN, and the code itself is constantly being developed and improved by hundreds of programmers around the world. So, how did the VLC iOS app get into this mess, and what's really going on?
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Etc: The GM release of iOS 4.2 has been released to developers for final testing and submission of updates apps, meaning it should be available to users within a couple weeks.
Etc: The GM release of iOS 4.2 has been released to developers for final testing and submission of updates apps, meaning it should be available to users within a couple weeks.
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The GM release of iOS 4.2 has been released to developers for final testing and submission of updates apps, meaning it should be available to users within a couple weeks.
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Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft
Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "Late last week, Google sued the US government for putting out a Request For Quotation for the messaging needs of the Department of the Interior that specified only Microsoft solutions would be considered. Google apparently had spent plenty of time talking to DOI officials to understand their needs and make sure they had a solution ready to go — and were promised that there wasn't a deal already in place with Microsoft. And then the RFQ came out. Google protested, but the protest was dismissed, with the claim that Google was 'not an interested party.'"
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