Date: 02/04/08     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Linux creator Linus Torvalds blasted patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun and the virtualization craze in his second official communiqué to the public. And he said desktop Linux is going nowhere in market share. In a second Q&A podcast posted on the Linux Foundation site, Torvalds told his interviewer, LF Executive Director Jim Zemlin, that the patent [...]

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Date: 02/04/08     Keywords: no keywords

Recently I have been writing about the M&A wave giving proprietary giants control over open source startups. IBM’s acquisition of Gluecode, an open source middleware rival, was one of the first such deals and at the time, in 2003, made me wonder if Big Blue wasnt just eating up its competition to kill it. [...]

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Date: 02/04/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Instead of spending $45 billion on Yahoo, wouldn't Microsoft be better served spending that money with IBM?

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Date: 02/01/08     Keywords: software

If a project's "owner" becomes obnoxious it is both the right and duty of its community to fork that project under a Foundation. Think of the split as a software Declaration of Independence.

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Date: 02/01/08     Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Let’s forget about search for a moment, and Microsoft’s obvious need to buy a leading online company or face extinction. Microsoft’s proposed $45 billion buy of Yahoo would give the Redmond, Wash company control over a top open source e-mail company, open source projects and an open source infrastructure. On September 17 of 2007, Yahoo bought [...]

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Date: 02/01/08     Keywords: technology

When Wall Street loves a technology deal, it's usually a bad deal. Wall Street loves this deal. Loves it like your 10 year old daughter loves Hannah Montana.

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Date: 01/31/08     Keywords: no keywords

I would think that if engineers are inclined toward terrorism, then FOSS programmers are even more so-inclined. Question is what can be done about it?

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Date: 01/31/08     Keywords: web, google

In open source, however, at least you can see the code, add your fix, add your feature, tell your friends, blog about it, put it on your Web site and hope, through the magic of Google, it's found by those who need it. http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/proprietary-open-source/

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Date: 01/30/08     Keywords: no keywords

The seminar's aim was to get its listeners across the transition, from selling licensed packages to selling SaaS. This may seem at first like trying to jump the Snake River canyon. But it just takes planning

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Date: 01/30/08     Keywords: no keywords

We're accustomed to thinking of handsets as just that, handsets. We're not used to thinking of them as laptop replacements but, with the iPhone, they increasingly are.

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Date: 01/30/08     Keywords: no keywords

There is plenty of time for discovery to proceed, on both of Barracuda's defense claims. We'll have legal and political answers on the use of patents to deny innovation long before any verdict here.

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Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: no keywords

If the market is to find true love, the two trains of Open Office and Symphony need to get together, and the base offering has to broaden. Otherwise it's all going to get left at the station.

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Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: mysql, sql

Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That’s what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia’s purchase of Trolltech – announced yesterday - and Sun’s buy of MySQL earlier this month being the most recent. [...]

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Date: 01/29/08     Keywords: java

SpringSource announced today is has bought Covalent Technologies as part of its push in the enterprise Java space.

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Date: 01/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

Beta 3 of Firefox 3 will be code complete on January 29 as planned. That’s the news coming out of a meeting of Mozilla developers on Monday, who noted that there are just two fixes left to do before freezing the code. With that, Mozilla will start the final builds of Beta 3 on February 4. The [...]

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Date: 01/28/08     Keywords: software

So long as people are replacing their phones every year, you're going to need help connecting them to mobile networks. And even if Volantis gives away its software, there is a lot of money to be made helping folks make those connections.

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Date: 01/28/08     Keywords: no keywords

Black Duck is trying to expand beyond its role in managing code licenses and become a general workflow outfit.

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Date: 01/28/08     Keywords: linux

To make this deal pay Nokia has to become more closely aligned with both Linux and open source.

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Date: 01/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

One could say Sinclair is applying the lessons of open source, or social networking, to getting people housing. In fact he's applying what I like to call Internet Values.

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Date: 01/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

Being "open" refers to more than the source code, and the rules underlying that code. To have a successful open source strategy you need to be open to all kinds of opportunities, which means having your people open to the world.

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