What's the difference between GPLv2 and GPLv3?
I'm not a lawyer and I would prefer a layman's description of the two. Anyone know? ...
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Converting to Open Source
If you are in a Microsoft shop doing ASP.NET, and the NEW boss figures it's better to move to open source alternatives (Linux/PHP/Python/Ruby), would you stay? ...
Why aren't voting machines open source?
Sooo...it's only sort of programming related, but I figure it's election day, right? Is there a single good reason why they aren't, not necessarily open source in that anyone can contribute, but open source in that anyone could inspect the source? ...
Why isn't all government sponsored software open source?
Taking shs's question a step further... Why isn't all government sponsored software open source? I can see excluding some for security purposes, but the rest? Didn't we as tax payers already pay for it? The government has no rights, only the people, so how can the government license something? Who is the licensee? It would be the pu...
Free or inexpensive metadata repository solution?
I have been given the task of either finding or developing a metadata repository for our development group. Since we work for a government agency, there is little or no money available for purchasing an off-the-shelf solution. And, since I am a developer as well, I would rather not build a new system if I don't have to. We would like ...
How to persuade people to contribute to an open source project?
I know there are a number of successful open source authors here. We develop a relatively successful open source project (I won't say what at the fear of spamming). Now gradually, after about 3 years the number of developers has slowly increased, but they tend to turn up sporadically, write some code, then leave forever. The nature of t...
Open Source Alternative to ASP.NET Commercial Uber-Grids
The company I work for uses an ASP.NET grid component from a commercial vendor, but won't upgrade the buggy old version we have to a newer version because of cost. Are there open-source alternatives to these Uber-Grids that we could take advantage of? I'm specifically looking for hierarchical drill-down capabilities. I know there are ...
Google APIs and tools for C++ developer
Google guys seems to know their game and I like learning from those smarter than me. Google is sharing a lot of code with open source community. Their docs and APIs are IMO state of the art. Which tools / APIs would you recommend for a C++ developer? I'm interested both in looking at interesting solutions / tricks as well as using some G...
Creating PDF Invoices - Are there any templating solutions?
Our company is looking to integrate invoices into a new system we are developing. We require some a solution to create a layout of the invoice and then convert to pdf. We have considered just laying out the invoice in html/css then converting to pdf. We have also considered using SVG->PDf conversion. Both of these solutions integrate...
What are your favorite extension methods for C#? (codeplex.com/extensionoverflow)
Let's make a list of answers where you post your excellent and favorite extension methods. The requirement is that the full code must be posted and a example and an explanation on how to use it. Based on the high interest in this topic I have setup an Open Source Project called extensionoverflow on Codeplex. Please mark your answers...
What are the best free software that helps you become more productive or helps you code?
What are the best free software that helps you become more productive or helps you code? ...
Cross platform, multi-syntax highlighting editor
Is there an editor that is: Available for at least windows and linux Highlights multiple syntaxes in the same document. (Ala Dreamweaver) Tabbed interface All the editors I tried highlighted by file extension only which isn't fine grained enough. At the very least it needs to distinguish scripting from html, css and javascript in the...
The difference between Free Software and Open Source Software
For quite a while, I thought that Free Software was Open Source Software. I've found out that this view is incorrect, and that Open Source Software is not necessarily Free Software. I honestly can't see any differences. What am I missing here? What are the distinguishing traits of both parties? ...
How to display credits
I want to give credit to all open source libraries we use in our (commercial) application. I thought of showing a HTML page in our about dialog. Our build process uses ant and the third party libs are committed in svn. What do you think is the best way of generating the HTML-Page? Hard code the HTML-Page? Switch dependency-managemen...
What embedded HTTP server library options should I look at?
I'm looking to write a small proxy server for kicks and giggles. Apart from the options in libWWW, can anyone recommend any opensource options for the HTTP server and client code? Thinking of a library of some kind similar to libWWW. Chosen language is C/C++ but open to Java, C#, Python... etc. :-) ...
What would you recommend as an easily modifiable forum package?
I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums. Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database. Right now all my site...
Software for Classical Music Theory / Composition / Harmony and Counterpoint
Is there any software to help in learning / understanding / experimenting with the rules of harmony and counterpoint? ...
Looking for VB.NET open source projects to learn from
I'm looking for some small, vb.net open source projects that make good use of unit testing. Similar to this question, but for VB.NET. "I would like to improve my unit-testing skills by reading, examining real-world code. Could you recommend any open source projects where the source is extensively tested with unit tests?" Thanks! UPDA...
How do you answer basic programming questions on a forum for a specific project?
I'm currently in the process of becoming a maintainer of a small open source project (a Facebook toolkit), and of course, one of the responsibilities is to answer user questions on our forum. While I'm happy to help users learn how to work with our toolkit and deal with issues they may run into (which may eventually indicate bugs in our ...
Memory leak detection under Windows for GNU C/C++
What memory leak detection tools are available for use with open source C/C++ on Windows? ...