Date: 02/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Is this an honest change of policy, or is this just a bow to political pressure, pressure which lobbying and campaign contributions might some day remove? I can't answer that definitively. The problem is, neither can anyone else.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/238926084/

Date: 02/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Sun wants to control the development of OpenSolaris through its control of the trademark. This upset Roy Fielding, a key member of the governing board, so much he quit in a huff.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/238844042/

Date: 02/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

To see just how big a buzzword open source has become, look to the troubled bond insurers MBIA and AMBAC.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/238810122/

Date: 02/20/08     Keywords: web

It would take a worldwide agency, using a treaty which has not been negotiated, to begin to shut down any Web site. Even then, torrents and caches would still spread the word far and wide, while the controversy would assure an audience for that word.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/238333390/

Date: 02/20/08     Keywords: no keywords

I'm not saying it's time to call mom and tell her you're moving back in your room. But every market goes through a boom, then a bust, before finding its footing, and the second stage may have just arrived for open source.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/238238227/

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Sun has been down so long it looks like up. The company has completely reconfigured itself, as an open source advocate, in order to stay relevant. So give Jonathan his props. He's trying to do the right thing, while also delivering for his employees and shareholders.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/237739526/

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: software

Crouch writes that the court is asking some basic questions, including whether the State Street decision, which allowed business methods patents, should be overturned. That case is also used to justify software patents.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/237721058/

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

The newly minted Mozilla e-mail subsidiary has moved out of stealth mode and is targeting the release of the next generation of Thunderbird for late 2008. The open source Thunderbird 3, now under development, will feature integrated calendaring, better search, easier configuration, significant user interface improvements and better extensibility, said Mozilla Messaging Inc, the newly [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/237709347/

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: java

Let me propose a contest.Come up with a video that explains the issues, and entertains at the same time. Or a Java applet. Or an Open Office presentation. A cartoon. Whatever floats your boat.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/237615630/

Date: 02/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Cleversafe's "storage Internet," a dispersed storage system where data is sliced to bits and placed on many servers around the globe, is rolling along toward a second quarter launch.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/237578671/

Date: 02/18/08     Keywords: no keywords

How do we enforce the GPL against users without causing a backlash?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/237034949/

Date: 02/15/08     Keywords: microsoft, google

If Microsoft really wants to beat Google, it must become Google. Or Googlicious. It must find some Googlosity. It must unleash its people to try things, and fail, and let the market determine which is which. Don't just empower someone. Empower a lot of someones. Empower everyone.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235606035/

Date: 02/15/08     Keywords: no keywords

While Internet routing and fiber trunks have always been scaled well ahead of demand, mobile networks will have to route a ton more data on-and-off the fiber for the new clients. Equipment will have to be bought without an assurance of a quick return.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235591148/

Date: 02/15/08     Keywords: no keywords

You can't raise a bad suit from the dead with the wave of a wallet. No matter how big.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235576013/

Date: 02/14/08     Keywords: no keywords

Rather than join in on the high dudgeon over SCO getting a lifeline of up to $100 million to go private let's talk a little about the man who put the deal together. His name is Stephen L. Norris.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235192676/

Date: 02/14/08     Keywords: linux

Red Hat announced a fully integrated SOA platform combining JBoss middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and launched three new open source projects. Due by the end of February, the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is a subscription-based offering that incorporates the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), JBoss BPM, JBoss Rules and Red Hat [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235117998/

Date: 02/14/08     Keywords: software

Thanks to the Internet you can organize a fork from many places all at once. This is an important check on corporate power over software, as is every customer's ability to do their own support, or outsource it to a third party.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/235031917/

Date: 02/14/08     Keywords: linux

Is it really necessary for a large company to control an open source project's creator in order for it to gain maximum benefit from that project?Sun says yes. I think Wall Street generally says yes. I think the success of Eclipse and Linux argue the answer is no.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/234983210/

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

Harshing the mellow of the rising party is no way to get what you want. On the other hand beating the most modest reform while Democrats hold a majority may be the best way to prove to Internet advocates that resistance to the monopoly is futile.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/234471479/

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: browser, asp, security

Firefox 3 beta 3 was released as expected on Tuesday with more than 1300 improvements since beta 2. Most of the changes are improvements and enhancements to the user interface, ease-of-use, performance and security aspects of the browser, the Mozilla foundation announced on Tuesday night. As promised, beta 3 sports a more Vista-like look-and feel [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/234382490/