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Software developer Chris Lattner, who is the main author of LLVM as well as Apple's Swift programming language, is leaving Apple, he said today. From a post: When we made Swift open source and launched Swift.org we put a lot of effort into defining a...

Microsoft has filed a grave ask for an difference to President Donald Trump’s anathema on transport into a United States from 7 countries, observant visa-holding students and workers who are “responsible famous travellers with dire needs” should be available...

The open-source community has officially donned its Heartbleed hairshirt. ComputerWorld’s Richi Jennings slammed “another horrible, horrible open source FAIL.” (Trolling for page views much?) ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols...

Open source is a development model and not a support one that does bug fixing, according to Red Hat global CEO and president, Jim Whitehurst. "On a conceptional level, open source is a development model to come up with great software," he said. One...

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst sees the business opportunity of a generation in what he calls a computing paradigm shift from client server to cloud architectures. “In those paradigm shifts, generally new winners emerge,” says Whitehurst and...