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- Eben Moglen predicts broad embrace of GPL 3
- Eben Moglen predicts broad embrace of GPL 3The momentum is building, this will be exciting. I can't wait to see all ofthe projects that choose GPL3. Solaris, Java, Samba, MySQL, . . . , LINUX!!!!Another thing, the collective thought that went in to the GPL3 is truelyamazing. Lawyers at Sun,...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., GPL, open source, GPL 3, Linux, Eben Moglen
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Eben Moglen's campaign to kill the FCC
- Eben Moglen right has a new crusade.He wants to get rid of the FCC.Unlicensed frequencies, which make WiFi possible, should enable the FCC's entire mission to become obsolete, he feels. A new proceeding on cognitive radios could combine with open source so frequency interference can be managed by technologists rather...
- Tags: Eben Moglen, Code
- Blog posts 2005-10-18
- Photo: Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center
- We will de-mine patents from the world where it hurts the ability to innovate. --Eben Moglen, Columbia Law School professor and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, speaking at LinuxWorldNews: Stephen Shankland interviews Moglen about GPL3 first public draft due early 2006
- Tags: Software Freedom Law Center, Eben Moglen
- Blog posts 2005-08-09
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- Eben law can have an open source business model
- Anyone can have an open source business model. Even an open source lawyer. Eben Moglen, whose Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal help to open source projects, has just announced Moglen Ravicher LLC, a for-profit law firm covering the same ground. Their first...
- Tags: Lawyer, OpenNMS, Ravicher, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Apple's new AirPort Express 802.11n takes the slow lane
- Apple's new AirPort Express 802.11n takes the slow laneAirTunesIf you're looking to stream music, then it's either Airport Xpress or AppleTV, but then AppleTV won't handle an external HD either. On the other hand, AirportXtreme or TimeCapsule will give you the HD, but don't give you AirTunes. It seems you...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Wi-Fi, Time Capsule, Apple Inc., digital-rights management, Apple AirPort Express, AirPort Express 802.11n, music, new AirPort Express 802.11n, slow lane, IEEE 802.11n
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?
- Version 3 of the Affero GPL was approved by the OSI last week, leading one of its advocates to suggest it should become the most popular version over time. (Picture from last October's VentureCamp for Blognation.) As the software industry increasingly moves to a Software as a...
- Tags: Software, GPL, OSI, Loophole, Capobianco, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Is celebrity contradictory with open source?
- Daniel Terdiman's scathing review of journalist Sarah Lacy at the SXSW keynote of Mark Zuckerberg this weekend leads to this intriguing question. Are celebrity and open source contradictory? (Here's a clip.) It's true that open source has some well-known names. Eric Raymond. Linus Torvalds....
- Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3F
- How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3FThat's a better way of looking at it.Compared to yesterday's piece, this is a much more informed look at the supposed issue.I agree that changes that are made to a GPL code base should, in the spirit of the license all of them, be given back. Your use of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- How hard is it to violate the GPL?
- I screwed up yesterday. (Picture from Boycott Novell.) After re-reading my piece, your comments, and the terms of both GPL licenses carefully, it's clear to me I underestimated how easy it is for enterprises to violate its terms. But it's not impossible. Far from...
- Tags: GPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Europe tries to make open source its own
- Roberto Galloppini right writes from Rome about how everyone there wants to talk about open source, but few want to do much about it. One speaker at a recent conference even suggested a "Euro-centric" public license in place of the GPL. That drew yawns. One...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?
- Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?Charity Begins at HomeSo I'm curious. How does the price of Microsoft's main reasonably-full-functioned software (I'm guessing that's MSWinVistaHomePremium or some such and the Business version of MSOffice) compare between the wealthiest and poorer countries?Just to pull five at random out of the...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, secret admirer, Linux open source, admirer, Linux, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?
- In a speech before the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week, mega-billionaire Bill Gates is calling for a "creative capitalism" in which businesses build and target products for poorer nations. Question for Bill: Like Linux and open source software, which has been widely embraced by...
- Tags: GPL, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Is McAfee just asking for a lawsuit?
- Eben Moglen and the troops at the Software Freedom Law Center may want to read the McAfee annual report more than once. Without this warning there's a chance Eben may do a spit-take on his morning coffee. McAfee stock is down 25% 20% in the last two months...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Lawsuit, McAfee Stock, Public Relations, Open Source, Security, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Samba is beneficiary of Microsoft-EU deal
- Samba will be a direct beneficiary of Microsoft's agreement to cooperate with the European Union, which was announced today. The agreement is that Samba will get assured compatibility with Microsoft Workgroup protocols through a group called the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation, which is chartered in Delaware. ...
- Tags: Samba, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., PFIF, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Mixing GPL and BSD code just takes care
- The Software Freedom Law Center has released a set of guidelines for projects that need to mix BSD and GPL code. This follows a highly-publicized dispute over Atheros driver code for the Linux kernel, during which OpenBSD head Theo de Raadt and other OpenBSD leaders got, shall...
- Tags: Developer, GPL, OpenBSD, BSD, Software Freedom Law Center, Raadt, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?The FSF has never before been interested in money damagesThe history of the FSF and other supporters/users of the GNU GPL has been compliance, not money damages. Seeking money damages would simply open a can of worms given you then have to figure out the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, GPL, GPL V3, compliance, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Novell CEO calls for new Linux distro ISV standard, praises FSF
- Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said the Linux industry must create a vendor neutral standard for application development or face the same fragmentation that killed Unix.Speaking before a packed audience at LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center Wednesday, the Novell CEO said the Linux Standards Base LSB is a good start but...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Free Software Foundation, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3
- Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3Because GPLv3 is a legal document...... and not many technical people, like myself, are very legal one has to rely on what lawyers think (!).I find it difficult to believe that MS has not considered the impact of the GPLv3, but then again it...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
- I wonder what that was all about. I mean the last dozen months of Sun Microsystems seemingly interested in and participating in the definitions of GPL v3, only to come out now that GPL v3 is defined to say they will stick to CDDL for OpenSolaris and for now GPL...
- Tags: Windows, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Patents, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Enterprise Java, Apache
- Blog posts 2007-06-30
- GPL 3 release set for Friday
- GPL 3 release set for FridayThis is going to be a very special moment in the history of Free Software.A big thanks to Richard Stallman, Eben Morgan, and all of the others working behind the scenes to make the GPL3 the best license on the planet. It will be very...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., GPL 3, GPL 2, GPL
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
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