Microsoft to open source .NET Micro Framework

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Microsoft announced today at PDC09 here in Los Angeles that they will be opening the .NET Micro Framework source code and also release the next version, 4.0. The release will be available under the Apache 2.0 license, something that is already being used inside the community. Developers will be able to ...

HTML 5 drops open-source video codec: Mozilla Firefox 3.5 pwned!

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Among squabbles and disagreements, specific codec requirements for the <video> and <audio> tags may be removed from the proposed HTML 5 standard. Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made his concerns and decisions known saying that without a general consensus among ...