open source code

In conjunction with OSCON, Dell today announced the first available cloud solution offering based on OpenStack — the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution.

The OpenStack platform has been lauded as providing an alternative to proprietary, licensed cloud products.

No less than a month ago, GFI Labs reported that SourceForge.net was riddled with a malware-cum-rogue antivirus package called FakeRean.

Today, GFI Labs has posted the results of a follow-up investigation and found that, rather shockingly, SourceForge is still swamped with profile pages and forum posts that lead to websites hosting lolita pornography and malware.

Datamation: "On this list, you'll find a variety of projects that are based on open source code and whose owners make money directly from their software.

How they make that money varies: Many of the projects on the list have a 'community' version that is available under an open source license and 'professional' and/or 'enterprise' versions that add features that are only available with a commercial, paid license."

O'Reilly Radar: "A live demonstration of the opensourced code for IT Dashboard is now online. The IT Dashboard code is available at SourceForge.net and is released under a GNU Public License (GPL).

A bug tracker and other resources are also online."

PC World: "Diaspora, a widely anticipated social network site built on open-source code, has cracked open its doors for business today, at least for a handful of invited participants."

Network World: "The setiQuest project has released its first open source code in an effort to have anyone interested help search for intelligent life out there.

The source code for Open SonATA is available on GIT Hub now and covers three programs:"

Piwik is a Open Source (GPL licensed) real time web analytics software program.

It's been a while since my last post. My blog pattern these days is that I write a blog post when I have an opinion that doesn't fit in a tweet.

the H Open: "As open source becomes more widely accepted, an obvious growth path for them is to be bought by a bigger, traditional software company.

The concern then becomes: how does the underlying open source code fare in those circumstances?"

ars Technica: "Microsoft has pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store website after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open source code in a way that violated the GNU's General Public License (GPL)."