Open Source

The source code of Winamp has now been officially released. However, it hasn't become a pure open-source project, as its licensing terms prohibit the creation of new, different versions.

Legendary music player Winamp is about to change its philosophy dramatically, as the software is switching to an open-source model in fall 2024.

Microsoft has open sourced the original BASIC intepreter, GW-BASIC, that shipped with MS-DOS 2.0 back in 1983.

Market rumors say that Microsoft is about to buy open source repository GitHub.

Apple, without fanfares or even a special announcement, released today the iOS and macOS kernels to the public as open source.
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HP has said today that it will be donating its webOS software to the open source community, just 20 months after purchasing Palm and webOS for $1.2 billion.
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If Apple's numerous lawsuits against Android go badly for Samsung, they may already have their future strategy mapped out in the form of Bada.
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Jan Wildeboer, a Red Hat employee and big advocate of open source software, has posted today that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Marketplace blocks ......

As we predicted last year, it appears Google is preparing to turn On2's VP8 video standard into an open source project.
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