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Open source swimming instructor

Open source swimming instructorKudos to Mark and Larry Rosen from a non-clientI was introduced to Mark and Larry Rosen as Projity was evaluating a move to open source. Mark and Larry were both generous with time and opinions. Mark had a conflict of interest due to his work with...

Tags: open source, Larry Rosen

Discussion threads 2007-09-01

Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policy

Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policyThere's NOTHING Wrong with the IETF IPR PolicyWe went through this discussion 2 years ago. Nothing has changed. These are GOOD policies. Rationale is here:http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/01/there_is_nothin.htmlIETF does not standardize EthernetIt's IEEE which is in chargeof Ethernet.

Tags: Ethernet, Internet Engineering Task Force, Larry Rosen, patent policy, Rationale

Discussion threads 2007-01-26

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

Larry Rosen: 'Good time' not fast enough for open source/standards

Two recent posts of mine -- one about the Apache/OASIS snafu and another that uses that snafu as an example of how commercial software vendors' long-time dalliance with open standards may turn out to be deals with open source devils for them -- have drawn heated debate regarding the confict...

Tags: Andy Updegrove, open source, open standard

Blog posts 2005-07-14

Larry Rosen denies report he's turned against GPL license

Larry Rosen right, former general counsel for the Open Source Initiative, has not turned against the General Public License GPL. He remains a strong open source advocate. His book, Open Source Licensing : Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law has drawn good reviews at Amazon.Com, along with endorsements from Stuart...

Tags: Larry Rosen, GPL

Blog posts 2005-03-21

IBM's 500 Patents: Gift or gauntlet?

On one hand, the 500 patents that IBM has released for unencumbered use by open source software developers is a giant step in the right direction, if you ask open source attorney and advocate Larry Rosen. Said Rosen in my podcast interview (download the MP3) of him, "IBM is saying...

Tags: patent

Blog posts 2005-01-12

Additional Resources

Momentum building for government open source

After doing my piece about the military and open source I was surprised to get an e-mail from John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute in Mississippi, who was kind enough to walk me through the deal. (Technology Training Corp. ran a seminar on...

Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-24

BEA: We're worth $21 a share

BEA Systems' board of directors says it will negotiate with Oracle--or other third parties--with opening bids at $21 a share, $4 a share higher than Oracle's current offer. For those keeping score at home. Oracle made its offer Oct. 9 and the two have been volleying letters ever since....

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Board, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Construction, Free Trade, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-25

GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software

GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other softwareGentlemen, start your engines.I appreciated this part of the discussion:In his "Comments on GPLv3" essay, open source attorney Lawrence Rosen writes that he believes this clause can even be used to combine GPL licensed code "modules" with code from other licenses...

Tags: software, GPLv3, proprietary code

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software

Now that the “Final Draft” of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. In part 1, we explored the notion of selling GPL software....

Tags: Programming, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Time of the tech-no: A growing minority of teens are decidedly unwired

In this wired world, one would have to look hard to find a student who doesnt take advantage of the Internet on some level, but they are out there, reports USA Today. Call them tech-nos. They are shunning the very thing that most students are embracing with a...

Tags: Education Technology, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policy

Larry Rosen, the man who wrote the book on Open Source Licensing, has penned an open letter to the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF regarding the formalization of a policy that paves the way for patented technologies to become IETF standards. The IETF is the organization that sets the standards...

Tags: General, Open Source, Legal, Berlind, Internet Engineering Task Force

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Intalio makes disingenuous claim that it has released code as open source

I just received a press release from Intalio who is engaging in what Id consider to be more slight of hand when it comes to vendors claiming that theyve released code under an open source license when that isnt the case, at least according to the people who have written...

Tags: Mozilla Public License, Legal, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Are SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, Scalix and other abusing the term "open source?"

The next time you see the phrase "open source" used in association with some software, be advised that youll need to take that claim with a grain of salt. Thats because beauty what qualifies as open source is now apparently in the eyes of the beholder rather than the eyes...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal

Blog posts 2006-11-21

The ripple effect of a GPL'd Java will reach far and wide

Its official. Despite some saying it couldnt be done, not only is Sun open sourcing Java, its doing it under version 2 of the Free Software Foundations GNU General Public License (GPLv2) using an FSF-endorsed footnote known as the "classpath exception." The FSFs classpath exception gives developers a bit more...

Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Berlind

Blog posts 2006-11-13

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

Microsoft patent non-assertion covenant is remarkable

Microsoft has issued a declaration -- something it calls the Open Specification Promise -- that it won't assert certain Web services patents it holds or may hold in the future. Martin Lamonica reports:Microsoft is pledging not to assert its patents pertaining to nearly three dozen Web services specifications--a move designed...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Online solicitation of kids is down

With the explosion of social networking, kids are increasingly exposed to child predators, right? There's just about nothing more dangerous than MySpace, is there? Not so, finds a new study by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center, according to a report in USA Today....

Tags: David Finkelhor

Blog posts 2006-08-09

Feds appeal loss in NSA wiretap case

Feds appeal loss in NSA wiretap caseWhat a load of bunk!Look, if the information is in question, the court judge can review it and make a determination and even have parts removed if needed. This hiding of SPYING ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ILLEGALY must not be allowed to happen...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Franklin, Pentagon

Discussion threads 2006-07-31

Microsoft standard proposal turns spotlight to Ecma's process

Microsoft standard proposal turns spotlight to Ecma's processOffice should be one of them. But,...buyers should be assured that the format can evolve without Microsoft's veto or say-so. I don't know that that's absolutely clear yet. And that's important for, say the community of people with disabilities PWDs. ...

Tags: Strategy, ECMA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2005-12-09