Over the past year, I’ve spoken with Open Source Program Office (OSPO) leaders across China, Europe, and North America, and one thing has become clear: the role of the OSPO is evolving. What began as ...

The open source movement, which began as an effort to ensure programmers had the freedom to modify and redistribute source code to support and learn from each other, is now a catalyst of innovation ...

This is what I'd tell someone who is not familiar with the concept and is just looking for the gist, not the details. Open Source is not the same as no-cost (free) software. Rather, it is idea that ...

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Professor Carlos Maltzahn a $695,000 two-year grant aimed at establishing an open source program office (OSPO) that will serve the entire campus community. The ...

Open-source licensing can get ... complicated. These days, many programs are 20 percent original code on top of 80 percent previously open-sourced code. To help address the resulting licensing ...

A grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will further the work of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at UC Santa Cruz work with UC partners at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San ...

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 22, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the latest addition to its Shared Source Initiative source licensing program, the Most Valuable Professional Source Licensing Program ...

CE Shared Source Premium Licensing Program (CEP), available to companies that are bringing Windows CE-based devices and solutions to market. CEP is the first Windows CE program under the Shared Source ...