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- Refers to software that is distributed with its source code so that end user organizations and vendors can modify it for their own purposes. Most open source licenses allow...
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- Linux matures (and goes way corporate) as OSDL and FSF merge
- Linux matures and goes way corporate as OSDL and FSF mergeMaybe I'm missing something, butLast time I checked the FSF Free Software Foundation is not the same as FSG Free Standards Group.Don't feel too bad, looks like Dana Blankenhorn madeLooks like Dana Blankenhorn made the same mistake. You both about...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Linux matures (and goes way corporate) as OSDL and FSF merge
- First, the Open Source Development Lab lays off a third of its staff in December. Now its merging with the Free Software Foundation in a deal that may have been brokered by IBM, HP and Intel.Yikes, all of this is so...corporate! While Linux lovers may show a good bit of...
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- The meaning of the OSDL lay-off
- The meaning of the OSDL lay-offI've been wonering when Linux Torvalds will leave for Google.I would think he would get tired of being isolated and wamt to be where the biggest world-wide Linux super computer platform is run. It is also distribution neutral - they only use Linux.FSF/GNU Was rightOSDL...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-04
- The usual suspects are on a patent hunt
- It's not every day you see two press releases that passed through the same sets of hands, from different groups, about different things, both telling one story.Yet here they are. The Open Invention Network (IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony are all mentioned) wants to bring Linux patents into...
- Blog posts 2005-11-15
- The fox in the open source henhouse
- The fox in the open source henhouseWhy should they?In cold hard dollars, where is the benefit to MS to build interoperability with Linux? Solaris I can see, but Linux? Why?The Sky is Falling! ... NOTThe title to this blog is certainly good for a laugh, but in many...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-22
- The fox in the open source henhouse
- eWeek reports that Microsoft approached OSDL (Open Source Development Labs, where Linus Torvalds plies his trade) to do joint "fact-based," "independent" analysis and research on Linux and Windows. OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen left and Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy Martin Taylor right met at LinuxWorld earlier this month to...
- Blog posts 2005-08-22
- OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the "ouspoken"
- OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the "ouspoken"Patents are evil unless they are ours...Seems a strange argument to take into court.Patents are the greatest threat to ISVsThere is nothing in the horizon more threatening to ISVs than patents. They simply introduce legal uncertainty – and hence potential unbearable costs...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-13
- OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the "outspoken"
- In case you missed it, Open Source Development Labs OSDL announced this week at LinuxWorld that it would be creating a patent commons as it looks to further bolster the open source community's resilience to the patent related issues that could hold it back. Red Hat piled on...
- Blog posts 2005-08-12
- OSDL's Stuart Cohen Unplugged
- Meet Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs. In some ways a product out of IBM's old school era, Cohen and his organization are the ecumenical North Pole of an open source world, which is struggling to straddle the fence between the direction it's going business mainstream and the...
- Blog posts 2005-02-18
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- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging
- The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Importance of Dissent
- Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up
- [ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser are beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab
- You may have heard of Microsoft's Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs. Get ready to add one more Microsoft incubator that is designed to speed up the delivery of Microsoft-created innovations to market: Startup Labs. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- What the fight against cancer really needs
- What the fight against cancer really needs isn't another feel-good telethon but an open source process. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
- Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- An open source rootkit kit
- I'm not ready to throw a security guru under the bus simply because he believes that an open source process can do what the older proprietary and highly secretive processes have not, namely deliver real security. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- NetSuite moves early to support Chrome
- NetSuite said Friday that it will offer native support for Google's Chrome browser, which is in beta and may not be enterprise strength yet. In a statement, NetSuite said its CRM, e-commerce, accounting and OpenAir unit will support Chrome in phases with support being complete in mid-October....
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
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