Tag Archives: Source
Symantec offered $50,000 to source code hacker
Symantec admits that as part of a sting operation it offered to pay $ 50,000 to the hacker who said he had the source code to the company’s PCAnywhere and Norton Anti-Virus products. Read more… Neowin.net
How Bill Gates changed Microsoft’s stance on open source
To Microsoft, Linux used to be a ‘malignant cancer.’ Now it and other open source projects are running on Microsoft’s own platforms. Here’s how Bill Gates changed everything at one meeting in 2008. Read more… Neowin.net
Older Symantec anti-virus source code leaked
Anti-virus software maker Symantec has admitted that hackers have leaked the source code for one of its products onto the Internet but claim that the code that was leaked is several years old. Read more… Neowin.net
CouchDB creator moves on, sparking debate over open source dev
The future of CouchDB is Couchbase Server. That according to CouchDB founder Damien Katz, who took to his blog to explain why he and others on the CouchDB team are regrouping around a more commercially focused offering within Couchbase, the … Continue reading
Twitter to open source code from newly-acquired Whisper Systems
Twitter has begun to open source the software built by Whisper Systems, the enterprise mobile security startup it acquired just three weeks ago. This move confirms the, well, whipsers that the Whisper Systems deal was mostly made for acqui-hire purposes. … Continue reading