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- The Free Software Foundation Europe working with WIPO
- This is an interesting bit of news: The Free Software Foundation Europe FSFE has been granted observer status to the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO. Here's what the FSFE has to say about its goals in working with WIPO:For anyone involved in questions of freedom in a digital age, such...
- Blog posts 2004-11-29
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- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess
- Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Europe can stick a fork where its mouth is
- Problem with your thinking...Sun owns the copyright. That means that they can rebrand the license. If you fork it, it is GPL forever. Thus you are definitely loosing out.Your argument would have made sense if Sun would have said, "hey we are going to release this under the Apache license."...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Linux clients break 1% web usage share
- Linux clients break 1% web usage shareThank you, danske, gracias.For the information.For some reason....I was in the shower and knew I would see a headline like this today. 1% on this rather limited survey most likely equates to a much larger share than whats given.How can...Linux be on a rise...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-01
- Linux Foundation: Let's kill Microsoft's FAT
- Linux Foundation: Let's kill Microsoft's FATFrom the word on the street, it sounds like MS settled for close to zero tomake this go away and avoid having any patents invalidated. Microsoft quickly realized how thin the ice was that they were on.Great Spin!Microsoft set out to cross license IP with...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- What does Europe have against GPLv3?
- My recent story on EUPL, the European Union Public License, drew some interesting reaction and this follow up question. What does Europe have against GPLv3? Roberto Galoppini, who first drew my attention to the issue, drew a response to his post from Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Greentechies smiling a little brighter today
- Courtesy: Foundation Capital. One immediate effects of the Obama Administration's economic plans: it has stimulated optimism among greentech firms and investors. I spoke yesterday with Steve Vassallo, principal at Foundation Capital. They have a range of greentech investments in their VC portfolio. Steve walked...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Should Mozilla stay out of the whole IE/EU antitrust mess?
- Should Mozilla stay out of the whole IE/EU antitrust mess?oopshit the wrong response; should have been: stay away!This looks like whining. Just build a better mousetrap....Is Mozilla imploding?This coming at a time where 1) Mozilla devs are struggling to get the 3.1 beta out but are hit by numerous...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- News to know: RIM, YouTube, Net plan, iPhone
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: RIM announces all-cash acquisition, takeover bid Andrew Nusca: Need $100K? Make videos for YouTube Richard Koman: White House hates Martin's free Net...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls, one of which is from a disclosure perspective: I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Is open source anti-American?
- Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Angst over Mozilla's money is misplaced
- Angst over Mozilla's money is misplacedMozilla ResourcesI'm told that the whole idea behind Open Source is that it be Free. But wait a minute. Developing software is difficult, incredibly difficult. Are all these open source developers rich people who don't need a pay check? I'm a programmer and I always...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- Attracting high-skilled immigrants
- Attracting high-skilled immigrantsfunnyWhen u say "We need to be prepared to be an active competitor in a global marketplace" about USA, it is more funny from Europe.I agreeBut I'm actually in favor of abolishing H1-B outright and instead making it easier to get a green card.CorrectionsYou wrote:H1-B visas are pegged...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Who still cares about Microsoft's server-communications protocols?
- Microsoft has used all kinds of excuses for not providing access to the server communications protocols that other vendors have said they needed to make their products interoperable with Windows Server. We've heard it all: Documenting these protocols would require time (like years...). Microsoft would be harmed...
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- EU ruling deals setback to Microsoft
- EU ruling deals setback to MicrosoftQueue the WinZealots...]:)Queue the PatriotsThis article is incorrect on the ruling having nothing to do with the USA - which has "settled". The USA is very much trying to reform Microsoft which is viewed now as a transnational big business rather than an American company...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?
- When Microsoft agreed last fall to distribute Novell "get out of court free" tickets, did it make itself subject to GPLv3? (Image from FSF Europe.) Microsoft says no, no, no. The Free Software Foundation says yes, yes, yes. Ultimately a court will have to...
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- ISO vote on OpenXML nears
- The International Organization for Standardization ISO is voting this weekend on Microsoft's OpenXML format, which Redmond has been pushing as "open enough," as it competes with Open Document Format, which is already an international standard, Reuters reports. Opponents of OpenXML say the format is needlessly bloated -- running 6,000...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
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