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Panel: Measuring Community Contributions (Liveblog)

Panelists: Joe Brockmeier - OpenSUSE Jono Bacon - Ubuntu James Bottomley - Novell Dan Frye - IBM Karsten Wade - Fedora * Don't always associated "contribution" with "code". * People tend to contribute things that are of value to them - they are scratching their own

Judge Kimball Rules on SCO v. Novell

It looks like Judge Kimball has finally issued a ruling on SCO v. Novell. From the article: OK. I've read it now once through, and the big picture is this: Judge Kimball did not change anything in his August 10th order, which I was afraid might happen. He

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org has been in the news for a couple reasons this week. On one hand, IBM announced that is was releasing Lotus Symphony, an office suite that is based on OpenOffice.org code and runs in an Eclipse instance. On the other hand, some of the community is up

IBM joins the OpenOffice.org

To the collective cheer of "It's about time", IBM is now officially supporting the OpenOffice.org project. From the press release: The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be

Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights

It sure has been a long time since the last SCO related post. It looks to finally be the beginning of the end for this whole fiasco. From Groklaw: Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO

IBM Pledges Free Access to Patents Involved in Implementing 150+ Software Standards

From the press release: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is granting universal and perpetual access to certain intellectual property that might be necessary to implement more than 150 standards designed to make software interoperable. One likely result of the pledge to commercial and open source communities is that

MySQL AB and IBM Announce Open Source Database Support for the IBM System i Platform

Some pretty big news from IBM and MySQL AB at the recent MySQL Conference & Expo 2007 (which I unfortunately had to miss this year, but do plan on attending next year). From the press release: MySQL AB and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a joint technology and reseller agreement

IBM aims to lower cost of using Linux, Apple PCs

This article contains an announcement that I think may be interesting. The one problem is that I can't actually figure out exactly what it is. From the article: IBM said on Sunday it will offer an open desktop software system for businesses that puts the cost of managing