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- Perens new crusade is patent law
- Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Is SCO's case crumbling?
- Is SCO's case crumbling?SCO will win the case! Darl McBride is my hero!Sorry, had ta. It's early, let me play a little..Perens is far from unbiased......but he brings up some very valid points. SCO is nearing put up or shut up time. If they are not prepared to...
- Discussion threads 2004-03-09
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- Will Google Android wreck Ubuntu?
- Will Google Android wreck Ubuntu?I think we're all forgetting something here...I'm a strong supporter and user of both Ubuntu on the desktop and server and Android on the smartphone (and hopefully down-market as well). But this whole idea surrounding Android on netbooks (which is an 'Ubuntu area' IMO) falls apart...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- Europe gets its own GPL
- Europe now has its own version of the GPL. It's got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept. The European Union Public License is an effort by EU government services to codify a Euro-centric view of copyleft,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Bang the TomTom slowly
- Sometimes a suit is just a suit. (What was Frank Langella actually doing when Nixon was President? Stay tuned.) Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center are thinking about getting involved in the patent suit Microsoft filed against TomTom, writes our Elinor Mills. ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- News to know: Ballmer on Windows 7; T-Mobile G1; Google's 3Q
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive' Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista... Ballmer: 'Windows...
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Bruce Perens gives doctors a present
- Bruce Perens gives doctors a presentIt's the small voice that counts the most.This is really sad. No, not the news you bring. The fact that this story is already getting a thin layer of dust on it and I'm the first poster. I suspect, but do not...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Bruce Perens gives doctors a present
- Perens' simple standards can do a lot to herd those cats. Like most great inventors he cuts through the complexity to simple ideas, simple goals you either meet or don't if you want to claim you're on the open standard train. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- Is Apple out of ideas?At this point they might not need muchApples' greatest growth prospect lies in computers, due to its smaller market share. There's a lot of room for growth there. Within that market, Apple has been able to cement a reputation, especially with consumers, of very good...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Perens new crusade is patent law
- Can we have a system which protects medical inventions while discouraging patent trolls, and what would it look like? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Open source licenses are valid
- Open source licenses are valid.....Time to test the EULA now... ]:)No surpriseIt's the position RMS has held since he wrote the GPL.That test is ongoingWe discussed this a month or so ago. There have been cases indicating some EULA provisions may be deemed onorous by a court. But I haven't...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Open source should support Apple over Psystar
- Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claimsJim is missing one essential point.Dana,While I have not heard of any official plan to do this, it's a no-brainer to consider that the Symbian platform in its new role could be hosted on top of...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Adobe joins Linux Foundation
- The question asked by Bruce Perens' attempt to re-join the OSI board might also be asked about the Linux Foundation, with news that Adobe is joining it, ostensibly to work on Web 2.0 applications Is this becoming a vendors' club? On the surface the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Is open source anti-American?
- Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?
- Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?Bruce, Bruce, Bruce...Personally, I think Perens is a has been. He wants a seat on the OSI board to try to become relevant again.His "campaign" seems to be based on fear-mongering. He writes "I think that vendor-domination of Open Source inevitably...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?
- Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens wants back on the board. Perens, who quit OSI in 1999 to concentrate on free software, has launched a petition drive to win his way back in. Perens says vendors are over-represented on the board, which is headed...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Is celebrity contradictory with open source?
- Daniel Terdiman's scathing review of journalist Sarah Lacy at the SXSW keynote of Mark Zuckerberg this weekend leads to this intriguing question. Are celebrity and open source contradictory? (Here's a clip.) It's true that open source has some well-known names. Eric Raymond. Linus Torvalds....
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
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