Date: 04/11/05     Keywords: java

JavaWorld has a piece that asks the question, who should maintain open source projects? Obviously, this is looking beyond the many one-man open source projects that are part of the ecosystem and focusing on the big dogs of the open source space. The article looks at two models--the company-controlled project?and the community-controlled project. JBoss and [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=233

Date: 04/11/05     Keywords: linux

File this under Irony.Stephen Shankland reports development of the Linux kernel may slow because Linus Torvalds is having to abandon a proprietary tool called BitKeeper, which he'd used since 2002 to keep on top of things.BitKeeper had been offering a stripped-down free version to the Linux community, but pulled it after open source advocates began [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=232

Date: 04/10/05     Keywords: asp, linux

A partner in IBM's venture capital arm, Juan-Antonio Carballo, says aspects of the open source model are now migrating to hardware. (The picture is from the IEEE workshop where he made his statements.) He wasn't talking about Linux on a chip. Instead he was talking about contracts being written that ...

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Date: 04/10/05     Keywords: asp, linux

A partner in IBM's venture capital arm, Juan-Antonio Carballo, says aspects of the open source model are now migrating to hardware. (The picture is from the IEEE workshop where he made his statements.) He wasn't talking about Linux on a chip. Instead he was talking about contracts being written that allow chip makers to see [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=231

Date: 04/10/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Info-Tech Research Group reports Microsoft could lose as much as 10% of its mid-sized business customers to Linux, in its best markets, over just the next three years. Sounds really bad for Microsoft, doesn't it?That's not how the story was reported. Linux Fails in Small Business Market was one headline. ...

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Date: 04/09/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Info-Tech Research Group reports Microsoft could lose as much as 10% of its mid-sized business customers?to Linux, in its best markets, over just the next three years. Sounds really bad for Microsoft, doesn't it?That's not how the story was reported. Linux Fails in Small Business Market was one headline. Here's?how another story opened:?Very few midsize [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=230

Date: 04/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

Computer Associates wants to adapt Sun's Common Development and Distribution License into an industry standard.CA is talking to both IBM and Sun about this. Sam Greenblatt of CA (right) wants to turn the CDDL into a template that will retain the complexity of current commercial open source licensing schemes while ...

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Date: 04/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Computer Associates wants to adapt Sun's?Common Development and Distribution License into an industry standard.CA is talking to both IBM and Sun about this. Sam Greenblatt of CA (right) wants to turn the CDDL into a template that will retain the complexity of current commercial open source licensing schemes while giving them a common underpinning. [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=229

Date: 04/08/05     Keywords: linux

The Linux community is under attack again for the behavior of a few individuals. ZDNet UK talks to Laura DiDio, an analyst for the Yankee Group, who is complaining that she's been ridiculed and harassed by Linux users who don't like what she's had to say. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=227&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

That is the heart of the argument Sun President Jonathan Schwartz made at the Open Source Business Conference this week. As reported by our own Stephen Shankland, because code used with GPL components must be released under the GPL, it imposes on its users a rather predatory obligation to disgorge ...

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Date: 04/07/05     Keywords: linux

The Linux community is under attack again for the behavior of a few individuals. ZDNet UK talks to Laura DiDio, an analyst for the Yankee Group, who is complaining that she's been ridiculed and harassed by Linux users who don't like what she's had to say. "There's an extremist fringe of Linux loonies who hang [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=227

Date: 04/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

I suspect most readers of this blog hope the SCO Group gets thumped in its copyright suit with IBM. I'm on your side. But if the case doesn't even make it through the discovery phase, where both sides seek to collect evidence from the other, that might also be bad ...

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Date: 04/05/05     Keywords: software

I think Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols may just have a point in his latest column. Vaughan-Nichols writes that, if open source folks want businesses to adopt their software, they need to be able to support software for the long haul: "programs that not only work well, but will still be fully ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=222&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

Philip Howard of Bloor Research (right) says that if open source is strategic, it will benefit mainly the current players. Plus a change, plus c'est la m me chose, he writes. That's French for the more things change the more they stay the same. (Sounds better in French.) ...

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Date: 04/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

Former Sun, now Intel open source diva Danese Cooper (right) has helped OSI get a new board, our David Berlind reports. It's a better board, geographically diverse and diplomatically oriented. Folks like Joi Ito have long understood the importance of getting along. Now if we could just get more moves ...

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Date: 04/02/05     Keywords: software, linux

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in MGM v. Grokster. The Grokster case, for those who haven't been following it, concerns the liability of distributors of P2P software. As we all know, there are legitimate uses for P2P software (think BitTorrent and distributing Linux ISOs, which are legally free ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=219&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Europe's Open Source Consortium has begun work on a set of ethical guidelines covering open source development. Is this trip really necessary? How will such guidelines be policed, and who will police them? What penalties should we have for those who violate the guidelines?And what would such guidelines consist of, ...

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Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. But will you love SuSE as I love SuSE once she goes by her married name of Novell? (Illustration from Amazon.DE, in SuSE's former home.) Good question. For now, Novell has decided to label ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=217&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

I usually stick to open source-related topics on this blog, but this story really resonated with me. Dr. Edward Hallowell says he's identified a disorder similar to Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which he has dubbed Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). According to Hallowell, ADT is ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=216&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/31/05     Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web, apache

Open source bundling is the new trend. Martin Lamonica's story yesterday about SourceLabs describes one such bundles. Most are aimed at businesses. Many, like the SourceLabs bundle, are AMP Stacks, with the Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and PHP scripting tools. The idea is for a company to give ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=215&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog