According to this article at www.techworld.com, Microsoft will be releasing parts of it’s upcoming Silverlight technology as open source.
A move that is no doubt made in response to Adobe’s opensourcing of the Flex SDK, Microsoft hopes to attract more developers for Silverlight this way.

News.com reports that Adobe is planning to open-source the Flash tool Flex next Wednesday.
Just like the ActionScript virtual machine, Flex will be released under the Mozilla Public License. Are my predictions comming true? Is this the start of open-source Flash?

Google has released a set of patches that improve the open source relational database MySQL.
MySQL has been used by Google for a very long time and over time Google’s engineers have added new functionality to the MySQL database, mostly in the areas of high availability and manageability. Last Monday Google decided to release their changes [...]

When talking to people about Free Software, the discussion always leads to a point where I’m trying to convince the person I’m talking to that Open Source software is better for a business than proprietary software. And by business I don’t just mean a company selling or developing software, I mean any company.

Microsoft recently unveiled Silverlight, their answer to Adobe’s Flash. While the most obvious thing about Silverlight has already been addressed (missing Linux support), another will be the upcomming battle between MS and Adobe. By positioning Silverlight directly as a competitor to Flash, Microsoft has already started the first round of what could become a battle [...]