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- SAP and open source: it's about Oracle
- Matt Asay has written a piece about SAP's 'sudden' love affair with open source: What is surprising is that it is SAP, the bastion of proprietary software, that delivers this message. Irony, thy name is SAP. SAP, after all, is hardly the most...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Matt Asay, Open Source, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Psystar releases 'build your own Hackintosh' kit
- there a few brain who will throw a fit big time Will nice i really wanna see what will happen on the legal side .but its a bit too late how many people already have the appz .... Well like many people ask for so long osx...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, EULA, EFI
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- 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."...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, mouth, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license
- Microsoft unsurprisingly isn't touting the fact, but its newest licensing agreement could leave customers product-less if they don't renew it. As of October 1, Microsoft will offer customers with its Application Platform Agreement license the right to buy software covered in the contract. But even with that new clause, is...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Service Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Windows 7 "Family Pack" ... Fact or fiction?
- Windows 7 "Family Pack" ... Fact or fiction?Any Family Pack License would be "Retail" onlyAny "Family Pack" discount would apply to "retail" and not "OEM" versions of Windows 7. That is precisely why there would be no communication to OEM system builders about a "Family Pack" license.If it is fictionThat...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Well HERE, fiction, computer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Can open source refuse to do business?
- Can open source refuse to do business?Could you ....do the same thing if your stuff was proprietary? I don't think this question applies just to open source. A license is a license.Probably illegalMy guess would be it would run afoul of all sorts of anti-competitive clauses in a whole bunch...
- Tags: open source, iText
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Net access no fundamental right
- Net access no fundamental rightSo let's all be barefoot and pregnant then.Especially in today's society where people with limited computer skills lose out for jobs, and how colleges demand students have broadband as a prerequisite as more and more classes have internet-based portions, or are completely internet-based...People need to keep...
- Tags: Vertical industries, fundamental right, Internet access, government
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- IBM passes open source license baton to Eclipse
- IBM and the Eclipse Foundation have taken a stand against license proliferation by announcing today that the Common Public License CPL has been officially superseded by the Eclipse Public License EPL. The CPL will no longer be considered an active open source license, but there's an easy migration path for...
- Tags: Google Inc., License, Eclipse, IBM Corp., Section 7, Eclipse Public License 1.0, Open Source, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- GPL's cloudy future
- One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Free Software Foundation, BSD, Free Software, Affero GPL, AGPL, Open Source, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Where to for revenue recognition?
- Fellow Irregulars Phil Wainewright and Jason Corsello are batting around the implementation services revenue recognition issue following Taleo's restatement of earnings. Phil uses it as a reason to take a sideways swipe at the on-premise vendors: I wonder what the impact on SAP, Oracle and Accenture’s financials would be...
- Tags: Revenue, Taleo Corp., Phil, Revenue Recognition, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Is the new open source Eurolicense eurotrash?
- The Open Source initiative updated one of its licenses this month, the EU DataGrid Software License. This turns out not to be eurotrash. Instead it's an important example of negotiating credit in a multinational corporate environment. The EU DataGrid is a distributed computing environment designed...
- Tags: License, EU DataGrid, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Facebook rolls back TOS
- Facebook rolls back TOSChanges are limited onlyFacebook did make a change to its TOS but the change is very limited. The TOS now says that if you remove content from Facebook the license expires. However, the TOS contradicts itself by also saying the license is perpetual and irrevocable....
- Tags: Blogging, rap artist, Facebook, TOS
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- The Red Hat and Microsoft pact: A nice win for mixed source shops; Frenemies vs VMware
- Red Hat and Microsoft have teamed up on a virtualization interoperability pact that's a big deal for customers--especially the mixed source variety--and a potential worry for VMware. The announcement, which landed Monday, has a few moving parts, but the big takeaway is that each company will validate...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Open Source, Cloud Computing, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges
- Apple hits Psystar with DMCA chargesCan't wait for the iApologistto show up, talking out of the other side of their mouths about how the DMCA is evil except when Apple uses it.Should match their views on patents....But... but... but... Apple doesn't use a TPM DRM chip!!!All the Apple zealots told...
- Tags: Digital media, Apple EULA, intel, Apple Inc., DMCA, Psystar, DMCA charge
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Subscription music services: Are we there yet?
- Subscription music services: Are we there yet?I have used both...I have used both pay-per-song and subscription, and I will never ever go back to a pay-per-song model.The only people complaining about a subscription type service are those that never actually used it.I have news for those that think they "own"...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, subscription model, Are-we-there-yet, Subscription Music Service, Microsoft Zune, music
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Android kill switch: Is Google evil?
- Android kill switch: Is Google evil?Open Source???Doesn't sound much like open sourceRE: Android kill switch: Is Google evil?Yes! They have been evil for quite some time. Be sure to read the EULA and contract for the G1 phone carefully. Don't be surprised if you find a clause...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Jackson Browne and Copyright
- Jackson Browne and CopyrightRE: Jackson Browne and CopyrightPosted to the wrong place. Moved here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52418&messageID=988050&start=-9996?SO!WHO CARES WHOM YOU VOTE FOR!!!!!I agree. it should be the length drugs are givenDrugs take far more money and time to produce than movies and music. On top of that, they may...
- Tags: Jackson Browne, Fair Use
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Can Google Chrome build an ecosystem?
- Can Google Chrome build an ecosystem?Chrome / AdvertisingI'm sorry, but I have a hard time taking any article seriously that downplays the "expected" privacy concerns. I mean, Google DID have a clause in their license agreement when they released the browser that said they own EVERYTHING that is posted...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Google's incomplete EULA climbdown
- While the world and his dog seem satisfied with the way Google's lawyers hastily red-lined the hated Clause 11.1 of the Chrome EULA, others may not be so pleased. This from the Spanish version: 11. Su licencia del Contenido 11.1 Conservará los derechos de...
- Tags: Google Inc., EULA, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
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