Can source code really read and improve upon source code?
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Reiser's argument in his lawsuit was that Microsoft has denied Namesys access to the central facilities, the source code, necessary for him to provide a source code patch.
The source code for the existing Silent Text version is here and the company tells me that the new Silent Text source code will be released sometime in March or April after confirming legal issues such as licenses for third-party libraries.
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But he knew a ton about open-source software, whose source code is given away in order to attract improvements.
Companies are trying to save money and increase innovation by integrating third party code, including free open source code, into their software supply chain.
This can include processes such as requirements gathering and documentation, source code control, code review, change management, configuration management, release management, and the actual testing of the software, explains Matt Miller, chief technology officer at CareerBliss.
In Drupal Gardens, users will be able to press a button and get a source code version of the Drupal code that runs their site along with the data from the database.
Even Microsoft has adopted something of the approach of the open source movement by pledging to governments to give them sight of Windows' source code.
Despite the fact that Silent Circle submits their code for several third-party audits, releasing an app like this one prior to source code release is bound to raise some questions.
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Android is open source software, which means developers who don't work for Google are allowed to see the source code and create a range of applications to work with it.
Analysis of files found with the chunks of source code suggest that a software firm called Mainsoft could be the source of the leak.
Microsoft, he says, makes a large amount of source code available under a so-called shared-source licence, which grants users downstream a limited set of rights to modify and use the code.
After being quoted in Mr Spadaro's paper, Mr Raymond took to his own website to note that he had deliberately equated cathedrals with proprietary, closed-source software directed from above, by contrast with the more chaotic bazaar of equals which produces open-source code.
The data can be exported to CSV, and the source code is available on Github.
In addition, Sun will release the source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Anyone can look at operating system source code, modify it and share it with the world.
The questioning led Weadock to admit he had no programming experience or knowledge of source code.
It had spread across college campuses because Bell Labs started giving away the UNIX source code.
In the early days of computing, software usually came complete with its source code.
In that case, hackers gained access to source code under development for an unidentified future product.
The source code on the site's main page suggests that it was, in fact, created in 1999.
There are no plans to mass-produce the machine, but instructions and source code are being made available.
The source code for all of these systems is closely held by the five big voting machine companies.
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Going further, Microsoft could be required to license the source code for Windows itself to the highest bidders.
Trade secrets also protects software source code and sometimes other aspects of software, such as proprietary limited-distribution documentation.
But they are refusing to allow independent analysis of the program's source code, on the grounds of commercial confidentiality.
When open-source code is involved, what can be defended as a trade secret?
Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give it.
The original source code he accessed at Goldman had been born in Chicago.
Bill Gates's company makes money by selling intellectual property, jealously guarding its programs' source code and fighting software piracy.
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