gplv2

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fight

Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fightDid ya see thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/bridge.microsoft/index.htmlI was told in another blog that the patent is long filenames in FAT. If that is the case then we need to sue the US Patent office for giving out false patents. If they can patent...

Tags: software movement, patent, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, GPLv2

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Software emancipation: An open letter to Linus Torvalds

[After years of watching the software industry twist itself in knots trying to differentiate "open" vs. "free" and having to re-invent code simply because it had the wrong comments at the top, I think it's time to put an end to the madness. This promoted me to write the following...

Tags: Software, Linus Torvalds, GPLv2, RSS, Internet, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Just don't call it trolling, Verizon

Just don't call it trolling, VerizonHmm..So that's why Verizon support technicians clam up the second you mention you use Linux.It's quite possible......that Verizon is right on this and that the Busybox developers and SFLC have overreached. I'm not at all sure I'd like a precedent that holds the unwitting...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., DD-WRT, GPLv2, source code

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

NetBeans 6 will likely use GPLv2

NetBeans 6 will likely use GPLv2Netbeans is a good productI had been using Eclipse for Java development as it allowed me to also work on my older perl scripts.But the more I used Netbeans, the more I liked it. The Swing GUI editor has saved me hours of work....

Tags: Java development tools, Sun NetBeans, GPLv2, NetBeans 6, Swing GUI editor

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

Free, as in responsible

Consider this comment by Krehbiel on last Thursdays blog about my inability to see a driving vision behind recent Linux kernel development: What you may refer to as "Linux," what Richard Stallman wants labelled "the GNU/Linux system," is even more...

Tags: General, Linux

Blog posts 2007-05-01

MySQL sticks with current GPL for now

MySQL sticks with current GPL for nowThe beginning of the end of Linux.:-)there will be those that move to GPLv3 and...those that will stay with GPLv2. no big deal either way. it won't kill linux or f/oss. you'll never have 100% from the community agreeing. that's what it's all about...choice.gnu/linux...giving...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., GPL, GPLv3, Linux, Microsoft Windows NT, GPLv2, MySQL

Discussion threads 2007-01-04

FSF rebuts anti-GPLv3 claims

FSF rebuts anti-GPLv3 claimsWho needs to listen?FSF says everyone need to listen to them and participate but from what I see it is Stallman that is refusing to listen to anyone.There should not be any ambiguityIf the GPL3 is not sufficiently clear to remove the possibility of such "misunderstandings", it...

Tags: GPLv3, GPLv2, Free Software Foundation, OSS, Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-27

Can you have a GPLv2-only license?

Can you have a GPLv2-only license?I Enjoyed Both PostsYou should do more blogging.Although Linux isn't the only very recognizable GPLed products-The GiMP http://www.gimp.org/Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/The Gnome office Suit http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/ Abi Word and GnumericCinePaint FilmGimp http://cinepaint.movieeditor.com/Jashaka http://www.jahshaka.org/and though tri-licensed under the MPL/LGPL/GPL...http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/http://www.nvu.com/http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.htmlAre all more visible and have probably a higher user...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, F/OSS, licence, GPLv2, Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2006-01-24

Additional Resources

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...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...

Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

cool.......:)ntAnd why Jason would anyone in their right mind want to do this?ntFor the same reasons...You'd do it in VMWare. The difference is that this solution is free. You want live migration or anything else VMWare does you'll have to pay for it. Hyper-V is an excellent hypervisor.Would you run...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server, Xen, hypervisor, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, open source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Discussion threads 2009-08-09

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. Some of you may be aware that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 (Which is due...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Distribution, Mouse, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, SLES, LinuxIC, OpenSUSE 11.1, ENTER, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-09

CentOS: Getting Their S#!t Together is a Top Priority

The CentOS developers were ready to burn the place down if their AWOL project founder didn't show up and resolve several outstanding issues that put the popular Open Source project and Linux distribution at risk. For those of us in the "Inside Baseball'...

Tags: Developer, Project, Red Hat Inc., Domain, Founder, CentOS, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-02

Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?

Microsoft's decison to release 20,000 lines of device driver code under GPLv2 is viewed as a big deal but not that surprising given the context. After all, the only technology Microsoft fears more than Linux is VMware's bare-metal virtualization platform. The release of the three device drivers...

Tags: Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., GPL 2, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employee

GOOG beats MSFT and all other tech firms in profit per employeeProfit is easy.When all you have to do is print more money.Google and MicrosoftMaybe it just takes more people to do what Microsoft does then Google? Microsoft actually make things, Google just sell ads and fool around with some...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., tech firm, MSFT

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

TomTom surrenders to Microsoft in patent fight

TomTom surrenders to Microsoft in patent fightIs that true?"TomTom claims its actions are in compliance with GPLv2."Its not what they said a month ago. were they liars then and honest now?MS living off the FATIt won't last forever.It sounds quite obviousTomTom was indeed infringing on Microsoft's patents, and the fact...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, TomTom, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

TomTom surrenders to Microsoft in patent fight

With TomTom unwilling to go beyond what is in Microsoft's press release, it seems pretty clear the company has surrendered to the company's patent demands. A TomTom spokesman confirmed to me just now that TomTom will not post a release on the settlement to its own Web...

Tags: Patent, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., Software Freedom Law Center, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Microsoft/TomTom settle patent infringement case

Microsoft/TomTom settle patent infringement caseYeah, sure... they were the losers here? NoTomTom is forced to pay Microsoft for the 8 patents.Microsoft pays nothingTomTom will remove from its products the functionality related to two file management system patents (the ?FAT LFN patents?), which enables efficient naming, organizing, storing and accessing of...

Tags: TomTom, Microsoft Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

TomTom pays Microsoft and settles patent-infringement dispute

TomTom pays Microsoft and settles patent-infringement disputeRE: TomTom pays Microsoft and settles patent-infringement disputeAnd the winner is Microsoft just like we all predicted. I still won't be buying any TomTom products due to their actions. Obviously there is something to the Microsoft patents and the linux vendors who did the...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., Tom-Tom

Discussion threads 2009-03-30