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The open source development incline: The open source development inclineThe problem is when one company owns all of the right for proprietary use.This is true with Qt, MySQL, and others. These projects are completely free to use as long as you do NOT link any proprietary code with it, but the minute you want to...; Tags: Databases, incline, open-source development, MySQL, open source; Discussion threads 2008-01-16
The open source development incline: In my 2006 piece The Open Source Incline, I argued that the license terms of an open source project will determine the level of community support it receives. Last month I began to change my thinking. The development models of projects can differ, even...; Tags: Incline, Drupal, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-16
Which GPL Will Be At The Bottom Of The Incline?: Which GPL Will Be At The Bottom Of The Incline?GPL not only choice.Where's the poll option for "other"?The GPL3 will be much more popular for people doing the dual license thing.It put more requirements on the end user, making it more likely they will pay the license for a proprietary...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL, incline; Discussion threads 2007-03-22
Which GPL Will Be At The Bottom Of The Incline?: Lets talk some more about the open source incline. (The picture is from a political site, but I find it funny.)The other day I noted how SugarCRM is now talking about licensing code under the GPL, rather than the modified Mozilla attribution license it has been using. It is doing...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL, incline, software patent, software; Blog posts 2007-03-22
Sugar coming down the open source incline: SugarCRM, which found controversy with its attribution licenses last year, is now talking about moving down the open source incline and supporting GPL Version 3.The decision emerged as Sugar announced it was entering the project management arena and opening an office in Ireland. (Thats why Guinness calls it the St....; Tags: incline, Sugar, open source; Blog posts 2007-03-21

The Open Source Incline: This is the second chapter in my five-part FOSS series. The first chapter was posted yesterday, and can be found here. One concept I write about a lot here is what I call the Open Source Incline. It's roughly a right triangle, on a graph. Along one axis is the...; Tags: open source, GPL, incline; Blog posts 2006-08-22

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Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up: Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing upSorry Dana, but you scewed upHi Dana,I totally agree that more transparency would be a good thing for Sun and its products and projects, and more openness would be the next big step. Beyond that I don't agree with much that you wrote here.>...; Tags: Team management, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Simon, non-development community, open source project, team, MySQL; Discussion threads 2008-06-24
Google's open source problem is Affero: Google's open source problem is AfferoOrly?So, if I understand things correctly from the linked article and this, Affero would require Google to release their source code updates for software that runs the [i]services[/i] they sell, not just for compiled software packages as under the current Affero?In the case of the...; Tags: Mac-user, Affero, F/OSS, open source, AGPL, Google Inc., source code; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Will market reject Sun's open source vision?: Matt asks today whether open source will save Sun Microsystems. Good question. But it depends on what we mean by open source. (Copies of this lovely poster are for sale at eBay.) And what we mean by saving. As I noted here in January,...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vision, Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-02
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
Sun's OpenSolaris community problem: Earlier this week I got a little jokey about Sun's open source efforts. Turns out they have a serious problem. They have moved to licenses at the bottom of the open source incline, but their corporate attitude puts them at the top of the open source development incline....; Tags: OpenSolaris, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Action, Fielding, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-21
What to make of Sun buying Innotek?: You can take the company out of the proprietary software market, but you can't take the proprietary attitude out of the company. I think that's the best way to explain Sun's purchase of Innotek, the German developer of the open source VirtualBox. Microsoft now...; Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-14
Should we fight the proprietary open source power?: Should we fight the proprietary open source power?There's a huge difference between this and closed proprietaryUsing the example in your link, if Red Hat refuses support because I change the source code, I still have the source code, and I can still find a competitor who is more willing to...; Tags: GPL, XFree86, open source; Discussion threads 2008-01-31
Should we fight the proprietary open source power?: Mr. Buzzword for February appears to be proprietary open source. This is an open source project which is owned or controlled by one company. Even though it may have a GPL license, you have no more power over it than a single voter in a political system....; Tags: Blog, Definition, IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-31
News to know: People don't get the MacBook Air; Thinnest digital camera; Merger mania: Notable headlines: Cisco plugs CallManager vulnerability that rates a '10' Janice Chen: Think the MacBook Air is thin? Check out the thinnest 8-megapixel digital camera. Dan Farber: Salesforce adds $5 per login pricing option and new developer tools. Phil Wainewright:...; Tags: FCC, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Merger, Apple MacBook, Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Camera, Notebooks, Open Source, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Blog posts 2008-01-17
The best open source development model: Our own Matt Asay recently took former Sun executive Michael Dolan to task for a piece comparing Eclipse with OpenDS, which Dolan once worked for at Sun. (Why the picture of Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo? Patience, grasshopper.) Dolan's point was that the purpose of...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse, IBM Corp., Michael Dolan, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-11
The open source start-up dream still lives at Nagios: The open source start-up dream still lives at NagiosDana, what is the best way to comercialize an open source project? I thinkthe answer will be in the size and type of project.But, in many cases, we have a non-profit group running the project, and it is commercialized by other for-profit...; Tags: Nagios, MySQL, open source, open-source start-up; Discussion threads 2007-11-18
Can Red Hat ever make open source advocates happy?: Red Hat has joined Sun's OpenJDK project, aligning its IcedTea project with it. (Should that now be IcedCoffee?) The reaction of open source bloggers to this news? Finally, wrote our own Stephen Shankland. What was the hold-up, asked EnterpriseLinux. What took you, asked Business Review Online. ...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-07
Open source values: transparency: This is the first in a series of pieces I plan to write about the values driving open source, and by extension the Internet. (To the right, a transparency demo concerning Apollo, a tool from Adobe. Its success may well be determined by how transparent Adobe is...; Tags: GPL, Transparency, Open Source, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-06
Was OSI right to let Microsoft licenses in?: Was the Open Source Initiative right to approve two Microsoft licenses today? The two licenses, the Microsoft Public License and the Microsoft Recipricol License, both read like baby steps down the open source incline. The first says a patent suit invalidates the license. The second also requires that...; Tags: OSI, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-16