Linux How Microsoft & Massachusetts played hardball over open standards A great article based on over 300 emails obtained under the Massachusetts Public Records Law (which looks like a state variety of the Federal Freedom of Information Act). The article contains a ton of information and if this is a topic that you're interested in (NOTE: it should
Linux Novell Boosts OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office Interoperability The previous post covered an article about Open Standards that ended with the following: When Gutierrez announced his resignation as Massachusetts CIO in early October, he cited the legislature’s failure to pass a bond bill that included funding for key IT projects. Since the bill also would have funded
Linux OSDL restructures; CEO leaves, nine employees dismissed It looks like the OSDL is going through another significant restructuring. From the article: The Open Source Development Labs has announced a restructuring, including the departure of CEO Stuart Cohen and layoffs of nine employees working for the organization. Mike Temple, the current CFO of OSDL, will be taking over
Linux Oracle questions GPL open sourced Java It appears that Oracle is siding with IBM on the issue of the Open Source license for Java. From the article: Steven Harris told Computer Business Review he believed the release of the Java code as open source would be beneficial, but questioned whether the Santa Clara, California-based company would
Linux Q&A: Novell CEO gives behind-the-scenes account of deal with Microsoft In a previous post I wondered what was on the mind of the execs at Novell after the recent Microsoft agreement. Computerworld has just posted a Q&A with CEO Ron Hovsepian. From the article: How did the agreement with Microsoft come to pass? Who approached whom, and when?
Linux A Correction to a Recent OLPC Story In a recent post about OLPC I erroneously stated that Jim Gettys was a Red Hat employee. Dave Jones has kindly pointed out that Jim is in fact an OLPC employee. My apologizes for that and thanks for the correction. --jeremy OLPC, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat
Linux Credit Suisse Writes Off Novell A quick follow up on Novell. While I expected them to take a bit of punishment from the Open Source community for the recent patent deal some previous coverage, I didn't expect them to take any punishment from Wall Street. If anything, I expected them to get rewarded
Linux The French Say Au Revoir to Microsoft Software The article title is a bit dramatic, but it looks like the French parliament is considering moving to Linux on both the desktop and server. From the article: Starting in June of next year, French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, and
Linux Novell Dumps the Hula Project Conspiracy theorists of the Open Source community unite; Novell has just dropped official support for Hula shortly after announcing their agreement with Microsoft. For those unfamiliar with Hula, here's a snippet from the original press release just over 18 months ago: BOSTON (LinuxWorld Conference& Expo 2005) — Feb.
Linux Oracle Linux, Distributions, Redux It's interesting to read what a well known and well respected MySQL Employee has to say, not only about Oracle Linux specifically but about the state of Linux distributions in general. A couple snippets: First, I'm really unhappy with the state of Linux distributions today. Its
Linux How many Microsofties does it take to implement the Off menu? Sparked by a post Joel recently made, Moishe Lettvin (a former Microsoftie now Googler) gives us a little insight into Windows development. From the post: So that nets us a conservative estimate of 24 people involved in this feature. Also each team of 8 was separated by 6 layers of
Linux Linux users to Microsoft: What 'balance sheet liability'? Continued coverage of a story I've been watching closely. Computerworld has an article the covers the reactions of a couple CIO's to the recent Microsoft-Novell agreement. From the article: "I do not believe that my company has an "undisclosed balance sheet liability," Russ
Linux Open Letter to the Community from Novell Novell has released an Open Letter to the Community. From the letter: Our interest in signing this agreement was to secure interoperability and joint sales agreements, but Microsoft asked that we cooperate on patents as well, and so a patent cooperation agreement was included as a part of the deal.
Linux Microsoft CEO says Linux "uses our intellectual property" That didn't take too long, did it. From the article: In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Thursday declared his belief that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property. In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at
Linux IBM cool to Sun's open-source Java plan In a bit of irony, it looks like IBM (who has been trying to get Sun to Open Source Java for years) isn't that happy with the GPL. From the article: After years of internal debates and public calls from IBM to make Java open source, you would
Linux An LQ Stats Update - 2.5 Million Posts 2,500,000 That's how many posts we have at LQ now. Wow. Rounding out the stats for those interested, we are just shy of 500,000 threads and have well over 275,000 registered members. I'd like to thank each and every member for making
Linux Sun Open Sources Java under the GPL Well, it's official and the rumors were true. Sun has released Java under the GPL. From the press release: Santa Clara-based Sun said it is making nearly all of Java's source code - excluding small pockets of code that aren't owned by Sun -
Linux Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider More on a story I have been closely watching, it looks like the Samba team has officially requested that Novell reconsider the recent patent agreement they made with Microsoft. From the Samba site: The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd. One of the
Main Page Adobe releases the source for its ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation From Penguin.SWF: Today, Adobe released the source for its ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. That's what Adobe did. Since this blog is a common stop for open source-minded folk, I thought it might be pertinent to use this space to discuss what Adobe didn'
Main Page Sun Set To Move On GPL License For Open-Source Java... or do they? Via Tim Bray, it looks like CNET says Jon says CDDL, while CRN seems to think it will be the GPL. I'll hold further comment until I see something more official. --jeremy Sun, Java, GPL, Open Source, CDDL
Linux Is Microsoft Going to Start a Linux War? On the topic of misunderstanding the GPL, we have this doozy. From the article: Microsoft has been leery of doing too much with Linux because of all the weirdness with the licenses and the possibility that one false move would make a Microsoft product public domain at worst, or subject
Linux Sun Set To Move On GPL License For Open-Source Java I looks like I may have been wrong when I said that the license for Java would probably be the CDDL. Much to my surprise, it looks like Sun will be releasing it under the GPL. From the article: Sun Microsystems has talked a lot about putting Java into an
Linux Novell and Microsoft Collaborate III Some additional information has been released since my last post on this topic, in the form of an 8-K filing from Novell. From the filing: On November 2, 2006, Novell, Inc. ("Novell") and Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") announced that they had entered into a Business Collaboration Agreement,
Linux Is SugarCRM open source? An interesting question that I haven't seen a lot of talk about. SugarCRM, the "Commercial Open Source" company, now uses a license that is not OSI approved. Basically, it's the MPL with this additional restriction: Additional Terms applicable to the SugarCRM Public License. I.
Linux Red Hat Response to Oracle and Microsoft/Novell Moves Here's a response from Red Hat on the recent upheaval in the Linux world. My take? Half really good points, half disingenuous and/or ridiculous. First, the good points. Last time I looked, we were still in ring, and we are still standing. The big mistakes companies and
