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Get your licensing shop in order before you build you new server.

Shared Source licence seeks official open source label.

Microsoft is now officially an open source vendor.

Impossible to marry enterprise and community needs in oneopen source licence.

Mike MacCana ponders the wine industry, rants online, and discovers a neat tip for intra-server messaging...

Redmond forced to provide free, irrevokable patent pledge to non-commercial open source.

Vendor squabbling is a recipe for confusion, says Gartner.

It doesn't make sense for all software to be open sourced, developercharges.

Closed source software seen as greater security risk.

Most important software trend in decades, says IDC.

Sun adds mobile Java to the open source mix.

It isn't an add-on, a mod or a new way of playing the world's most popular online shooter. Counter-Strike: Source is the same game that's known, loved and often responsible for gamers sitting motionless for days on end. But it's now been ported to Valve's new 3D engine, the Source engine, giving us our first glimpse of the technology that will be powering Half-Life 2.

Open Solutions Alliance hopes to increase adoption of open source apps.

Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

Nearly on a par with commercial software, finds survey.

David Kidd investigates why open source software still falls into the same old traps