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- Expect significant tweaks to the Microsoft-Novell Linux-use covenants
- Expect significant tweaks to the Microsoft-Novell Linux-use covenantsIrreconcilable DifferencesThe only "terms" that will leave Novell able to ship SuSE are that Microsoft covenant not to enforce any "IP" that it might have that reads on any of the packages that Novell distributes, [i]or derivative works implementing the same features[/i].In other...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., covenant, software
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- IBM's Sutor, Sun's Phipps give lukewarm reception to Microsoft patent covenants
- In yesterday's post regarding Microsoft's remarkable step in the right direction (with regards to its issuance of some patent non-assertion covenants), I mentioned that silence on behalf of the normally quick-to-respond-to-such-news Bob Sutor (IBM's open source and standards veep) and Simon Phipps (Sun's chief open source officer) might have been...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Simon Phipps
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Top open source lawyer blesses new terms on Microsoft's XML file format
- Last week, just before the Thanksgiving holiday got underway in the US, Larry Rosen, the attorney that wrote the book on open source licensing If the Microsoft news wins Google over to the company's file formats, it could be game over for ODF.and the man who was the Open Source...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source
- Blog posts 2005-11-28
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- Novell as Microsoft's client state
- Novell as Microsoft's client stateEntreeIt's MS who want entree into the Linux world and for Novell, well, it's 'business as usual'.Novell move forward with or without MS and only provide bridging vis a vis Mono and ZENworks and VM Xen API interfaces; all else is not IP infringed unless MS...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership
- Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnershipWhy would you want your competition...selling your product and why would you want to sell your competitions product? I would like to believe this is being done for the good of the customer.I'm trying to think of any other industry where this kind of relationship...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, partnership, Companies, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Linux partnership
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube and its usersViacom's Data DragnetIt seems to me that their is no justification for allowing this data dragnet.Whether dynamic or static, IP addresses can be traced back to many of the original users through data from Internet service providers. The Whitter article cited...
- Tags: Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc., IP address
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup campsUI components are not normally considered services"...they can actually create services on their own."UI components, including composite applications or mashups, are not typically "services." They may be service clients but typically services do *not* provide a user interface.The SOA/Mashup Tension is GOODJackBe agrees that...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, JackBe, SOA, mashup
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication postClarifyLinus would have a difficult time moving the kernel to GPLv3. Many kernel devs have already 'nixed' the idea and Linus, unlike the FSF does not hold the copyrights on all kernel contributions.Since it's been ruled that UNIX is owned by Novell and...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Unixfication, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linus
- Discussion threads 2008-05-18
- Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight
- Novell produces lead pony for SilverlightGood Job MiguelWhen push comes to shove Microsoft WILL unleash the lawyers.Miguel and his friends at Novell have already taken hold of the ropes and pulled the Trojan horse inside the gates. However unlike Troy, the majority of the Trojans in this case are on...
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Silverlight, Novell Inc., Mono, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-17
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?
- European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?Fine is for the pastThis fine is for the past and has nothing to do with their current 'openness'!I'm gladI'm so glad Microsoft have suddenly changed and decided to makes these moves purely out the goodness of their own hearts.Who knows if the...
- Tags: Servers, European Commission, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Reading the fine print on Microsoft's new open-source promises
- So how sweeping are the new interoperability commitments that Microsoft announced on February 21, especially the promising-sounding "covenant not to sue" open-source developers? As I've said, I consider what Microsoft announced today to be more fluff than substance. It sounds like the European Commission shares my view....
- Tags: Developer, API, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Countering the Microsoft cynics
- Countering the Microsoft cynicsBenefit of the doubt[i]That’s why I am willing to give Ballmer more benefit of the doubt than Foley.[/i]It's much easier to trust the guy with the gun when you're standing next to him instead of in his sights.Can take years to build trustI certainly hope you're right,...
- Tags: open-source developer, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, open source, snake
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Microsoft+pledges+%28yet+again%29+that+it+wants+to+be+interoperable
- Microsoft+pledges+%28yet+again%29+that+it+wants+to+be+interoperablefalse promisessort of like Google saying they respect data privacyMicrosoft is reaching out..thats always goodI think your post is overly critical and unbalanced.fool me once, shame on MS. Fool me way more...Why are people so stupid! If MS wants to be open, then BE open. Oh we...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machine
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machineYang will NOT want to work under MS. He WILL take the money and run thoughas Google is eating their lunch, and MS has billions to throw at anything and everything. Time to exit the stage with a suitcase full of cash. My bet is that Yang ends up at...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSN Hotmail, Google Inc., GeoCities
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!
- Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!So Robin, what are you trying to say? kiddingBeware of 'flying chairs'.RE: Farewell, Bill. Yo, Ballmer, now it's your turn!What I would do...Buy into Apple; stock is low and ups are massive a good time to get in. Buy into Google they are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business structures, Game players, current Windows kernel, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Farewell
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customers
- Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customersNice going...I should try telling these various credit card company morons that I "lost" their bills and then send them an offer to protect their good names. This idiotic country has become absolutely beholden to computer systems that barely work and employees that...
- Tags: Social Security, Identity theft, Operational accounting, Credit Bureaus, issuer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-19
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenant
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenantJust don't buy any new MS apps.Use their old stuff that you already own and then make the switch to Open Office on new systems. There is no sound business reason to be held hostage by Microsoft. It would have cost them nothing but...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Word processors, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenant
- Many people fondly believe — in common with Talkback poster jim_d to my previous post — that when they pay a one-time fee to buy a 'perpetual' licence to use conventional software, then that's their only cost. But as I pointed out in my riposte, that fails to take into...
- Tags: Cost, Licence, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Security, Management, Office Suites, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Linux patent suit: In search of the Microsoft smoking gun
- Linux patent suit: In search of the Microsoft smoking gunThis is why Novell ...The Microsoft Novell deal wheels are starting to come off"It is particularly relevant given that, according to Novell’s NTAP information, Microsoft’s covenant not to sue Novell users will be extended to “all GPL v3 users as soon...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Fixing a broken patent system
- Fixing a broken patent systemReform?Patent reform is meaningless unless software patentability is abolished and it remains first to invent. First to file tends to reward companies with deep pockets. Not necessarily the actual innovator.Sourcing has astronomical elasticity. Example: Compression RDK_aa3.4.6..i2Bill Gates owns most anything to be said and made for...
- Tags: Patent Reform, sourcing, patent system, inventor, patent, continuation, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
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