Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands Microsoft developer boss Scott Hanselman saved the company's Ignite shindig this week by unveiling the ...

In search of new batteries utilizing alternatives that will go beyond the famed Lithium-ion ones present, Lamborghini has licensed the latest development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

A major barrier to the adoption of Facebook’s React front-end library has been its license. Facebook chose to use a BSD-derived license that contained some troubling terms surrounding patent ...

First launching in 1977, Zork was a series of text-based adventures games that influenced the creation of MMORPGs.

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Microsoft acquired the licence to Zork when it purchased Activision, which in turn nabbed the IP when it bought Infocom back in the '80s. The move to make Zork open source is a combined project ...

[Flameeyes] has heard complaints (and at times, he admits, has complained himself) about big companies not contributing improvements to projects they seem to find useful, or rolling their own ...

With its MIT license and ultra-low costs, DeepSeek could be an appealing and cost-effective option for enterprise adoption. Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has unveiled an open-source version of its ...

The popular JavaScript UI library’s BSD + Patent license will be replaced with the friendlier MIT license—but only if developers update their React code Under pressure from organizations such as the ...

There was a copy of the predecessor "Dungeon" on a Caltech PDP-11 that someone had modified to take place in the arroyo behind JPL. My father would bring home an accoustic-coupled terminal, and I'd go ...