QNX shares source code, kinda
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QNX Neutrino project will let people see and tinker with the embedded operating system's source code--but not ship products with it.
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A small step for the budding social network's quest to be the anti-Facebook: Plaxo has opened up a portion of its source code dedicated to helping users manage their various social-networking identities.
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roundup Free-roaming source code breeds new Netsky pest. Also: From IE to Opera, browsers are a likely prey.
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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Ziff Davis - Vulnerabilities in LibTIFF and Xpdf could allow remote system compromise.
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The Linux code base is so large, with so many lines of code and changes happening more quickly than ever, that some wonder about the role of the independent Linux hacker going forward.
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Ziff Davis - Sun's plans to offer Solaris code to the open-source community leaves some analysts scratching their heads.
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IBM has opened its Jazz.net community to anyone who wants to provide feedback on its Jazz technology. And it disclosed long-range plans to open the Jazz source code, as it did with Eclipse.
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The Linux operating system is based on source code that is freely shared among developers worldwide. The Free Standards Group is touting the agreement as a milestone in Linux&#39;s march into the mainstream.
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An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. By Michelle Delio.
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David has posted an article to the Expirmentalworks.net blog about a task that he and Johannes Schluter have finished up - importing the PHP CVS tree over into Git.   A few month ago Johannes Schluter and I started discussing about GIT and other decentralized version control systems. During our exploration of GIT we thought about importing the PHP CVS tree into git. A few weeks later and a lot of wasted cpu time, we finally managed to provide an inofficial GIT mirror of the PHP CVS repository. ItÃ¢ÂÂs provided by Johannes Schluter and mirrored by me.    The post documents the path they followed - using git-cvsimport, parsecvs and a path they needed to make - to finally get the import working without any flaws. You can check out their unofficial repository here (it's updates twice a day from the live CVS).
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TechWeb - Eight companies hope to cut costs and improve quality by sharing software code.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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Cambridge boffins patch photon-splitting vuln Researchers believe they have secured a potential backdoor in a cryptography technique known as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).â¦
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I was reading LWN where there were reports of security holes in a dozen different packages based off Mozilla's Gecko. Someone complained about the lack of a universal library that they should all use so that users would only need to update the library and not each program separately. Apparently such a library exists as libxul, but its use is uncommon enough that the bugs were reported as being for the several separate programs and not for "libxul".
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A highly critical security hole has been reported in the X Pixmap (libXpm) technology shipped with Solaris and JDS for Linux, which could allow someone to run code on your system if a modified X Pixmmap (.xpm) image is loaded.
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SGI begins work on an open-source version of a development tool for high-performance computing programmers.