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License stand-down begins

The Sun set on SISSL, the Sun Industry Standards Source License. Hopefully this is just the first announcement of many. For any commercial open source definition to work, we need some rational licensing, licensing you don't need a lawyer to figure out. I wrote about this back in March, after...

Tags: SISSL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-09-06

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mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future

paranoia againi remember paranoia when sun bought openoffice and mysql...look they are still here!!!and oracle bought sun...people will be paranoid for some time, and than that story will go to oblivion just like any other paranoid story in open source world.Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQLand also 5 billions...

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

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 (Windows)

OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites....

Tags: Open Source, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-31

Sun retires another open source license

Sun has apparently notified the Open Source Initiative that the Sun Public License SPL is no longer of use to the open source community. On his blog, Suns Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps wrote:....one of the very first things we did when I became Suns Chief Open Source Officer...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Sun Public License

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Sun retires one open-source license

Sun retires one open-source licenseScrap the CDDL? No way!It may be the best mix between propratary and open source available, why would anyone want to scrap it? (Other than the ones that think everything should be free.)Indeed...This is a sad day for open source. Not only is this...

Tags: CDDL, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-09-04

For non-proliferation's sake, Sun asks OSI to retire older open source license

For non-proliferation's sake, Sun asks OSI to retire older open source licenseHouston, Do We Have A Problem?Is there more to this story than Sun is letting onto? What kind of an impact does this license change hold for OpenOffice.org, IBM's WorkPlace, and perhaps the real target of this change,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, OSI, workplace, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Workplace, OOo, Google Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2005-09-02

For non-proliferation's sake, Sun asks OSI to retire older open source license

There's a bit of news on the the open source license non-proliferation front. Proliferation of incompatible open source licenses has balkanized the open source software community to a point that code isn't nearly as freely shareable as some people perceive it to be. As one of his...

Tags: Simon Phipps, open source

Blog posts 2005-09-02

Clearing the air on IBM Workplace-OpenOffice.org connection

Yesterday's blog entry by Joe Brockmeier about why he found the comments reported to have been made by Sun officials to be petty politics has drawn a response from Sun's Simon Phipps as well as a clarification to a blog I wrote on the issue from Open Source...

Tags: IBM Corp., OpenOffice.org, Simon Phipps

Blog posts 2005-04-27

Is Sun right to insist on copyright transfer?

ZDNet blogger Joe Brockmeier has issued a stinging commentary that takes Sun to task for not practicing what it preaches. In his blog, Brockmeier takes issue with the way certain Sun officials are saying that IBM should contribute developer hours to OpenOffice based on usage while Sun doesn't necessarily...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Joe Brockmeier, open source

Blog posts 2005-04-26

Putting the spin on IBM

Maybe I'm imagining it, but there seems to be a concerted effort on the part of Sun and OpenOffice.org team members lately to push the meme that IBM should be criticized for its lack of involvement with OpenOffice.org. Techworld.com quotes Sun's Simon Phipps saying "ask IBM why it uses OpenOffice...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice.org, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2005-04-25