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Bad Voltage Season 2 Episode 2 Has Been Released: Failed to Capture

With Bryan Lunduke moving on (best of luck with the Lunduke Hour; go take a listen), we decided to start "season 2" of Bad Voltage. Last episode we covered our 2017 predictions and Jono reviewed an SUV Caddy. We also added a recurring News segment to the show.

The New Yorker: The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty

I think it's indicative of how pervasive Open Source has become when a traditional non-technical mainstream publication such as The New Yorker writes an in-depth article about the GNU manifesto turning thirty. A well done, fair, factually accurate, and balanced article at that. You should read the article,

BusyBox Developers and Monsoon Multimedia Agree to Dismiss GPL Lawsuit

It's great to see that the first U.S. GPL lawsuit filed has been settled with fairly little fanfare. From the press release: The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Monsoon Multimedia today jointly announced that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement lawsuit filed

Microsoft Statement About GPLv3 II

To answer a question I posed in a previous post about how Novell was going to handle the fact that Microsoft does not want to be a party to the GPLv3 (from the Novell PR Blog): Shortly after the GPLv3 license was released, Microsoft issued a statement in which they

GPLv3 Coverage

For all the coverage the process has gotten to date, the final GPLv3 was released to relatively little fanfare on Friday, June 29th. The reality, as with any legal document, is that it's going to take a while for company and project lawyers to read through and digest

Linus on GPLv3

Linus made a couple interesting comments on LKML a few days ago regarding the GPLv3: I was impressed in the sense that it was a hell of a lot better than the disaster that were the earlier drafts. I still think GPLv2 is simply the better license. I consider dual-licensing

Open Source Business Models: a Taxonomy of Open Source Firms' business models

If you're looking into starting a commercial Open Source company, here's an in-depth look at the various current business models. Within the context of the FLOSSMETRICS project we are performing a study on the business models adopted by companies that are leveraging FLOSS source code, and

GPLv3, Linux and GPLv2 Compatibility

Allison continues her fantastic coverage of the GPLv3 process in this post. A third possibility is that the Linux kernel developers will decide that it's not worth the hassle and just accept the GPLv3. I suspect that this is what the FSF is hoping will happen. Depending on

Open source expert speaks out on GPLv3

If you're following the GPLv3 draft process (previous coverage) here's an extremely informative post by Mark Radcliffe. From the post: Mark Radcliffe joins us this week to give his expert opinion on the latest draft of GPLv3. Mark is a friend and one of the industry&

GPLv3, Microsoft/Novell language

A quick follow up to this post, Allison Randal has posted a good piece of some of the GPL modifications over at the O'Reilly Radar. From the post: The core of the added language is: You may not convey a covered work if you are a party to

Torvalds 'pretty pleased' about new GPL 3 draft

The 3rd draft of the GPLv3 has been released, and it's great to see that Linus is "pretty pleased" with it. Despite what same are saying, I think that Linus' opinion on this matters quite a bit. He started one of the most successful GPL