Are Corporations Co-opting Open Source?

The recent announcements by Adobe and Microsoft of source code releases under FOSS licenses are attempts to co-opt free software.

Microsoft announced this week that they are releasing source code for Linux drivers that allow it to interact better with Windows, where Windows is the host OS and Linux is running as a guest OS. This [...]

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GeeXboX 1.2.3 released

Version 1.2.3.of GeeXboX is released. GeeXboX is a standalone media player, running under Linux and based on MPlayer. GeeXboX runs from a CD on any Pentium-class or Apple Macintosh computer. Nearly every kind of media file can be played with GeeXboX,

- MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs …)
- MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD, H.264 [...]

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Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate

The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major version of the W3C’s ubiquitous HTML standard. Although HTML 5 is still in the draft stage, several of its features have already [...]

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