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How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?

How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?damm that open source creeping!I guess this means that cisco doesnt employ strict version control and monitor what goes into their products?I guess that would mean they make good products but dont actually know whats in them and therefore could be...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., open source, open source license, Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Open source licenses are valid

When you break the terms of an open source license you are committing a copyright violation. Creative Commons has the same power under law that the record or movie industries do. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source License, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-14

How much do open source license terms matter?

A lot of time is spent here on the differences among open source licenses.Where you stand on the open source incline, whether it's near the top with a Microsoft license, at the bottom with the GPL, or somewhere in the middle with a BSD license, is supposed to matter.But, almost...

Tags: License, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-08-23

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

Podcast: SugarCRM CEO says attribution in open source licenses is about fairness

Podcast: SugarCRM CEO says attribution in open source licenses is about fairnesslicense merger defense?"SPL is nothing more than a merger of two existing open source licenses: the Mozilla Public License and the Attribution Assurance License. "If this is meant to defend SPL, it does a bad job. Merging two licenses...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Podcasts, open source license, fairness, open source, merger, SugarCRM, podcast

Discussion threads 2006-12-06

Intel to stop using open source license

Intel to stop using open source licenseDon't see it this way...I see this as Intel moving further to the Microsoft camp. By cancelling this license, Intel is moving away from Open Source towards more robust and industry standard offerings like Windows. The fact that this move coincides with the release...

Tags: UNIX, Intel obviously, OSI, Intel Corp., open source license, satire, open source

Discussion threads 2005-03-31

Additional Resources

Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, Palm

To Stay in Business,eventually they will turn to Android.The SAME WAY did HTC and MOTOROLA.and IT will not Take Long!RE: Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, PalmRIM forever!droid is cool, but read the comments on the original article.this guy is probably waaaay off.IT Analysts are kind of...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Handhelds, droid, IT-Analysts, Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Inc., phone, Pre, v60

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure

Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Eclipse, Linux, Mircosoft, Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

VirtualBox 3.0.10 (Mac)

innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Apple Macintosh, Innotek GmbH, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Black Duck finds its business makes sense

managing dual-use encryptionThe important lesson from the Jonathan Erickson (Dr. Dobbs) piece is that a simple application filing averted the panic that ensued when he received a "charging letter" from U.S. export enforcement officials. 88% of all export applications qualify for exceptions given to ?mass market? or ?unrestricted? retail...

Tags: SECURITY, encryption

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!

Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?

We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.

fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...

Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

R for Mac OS X 2.10.0 (Mac)

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Language, Graphics, R, S Language, R. R, Team Management, UNIX, Apple Mac OS X, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-10-26

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

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Art of the software deal can get messy

Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Why prefer open source

"Mandates...are perceived as threatening"This is way off topic, but as the primary ZDNet health care writer you will recognize the problem here. It's the "buy insurance or else" mandate in most of the legislation being proposed and which certainly will be anything that gets passed. This may be...

Tags: GPL, un-American, open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-15