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Mar 30

SCO Can't Win for Losing: Jury Says Novell Owns Unix Copyrights #

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[Novell]

It's almost hard to believe that it's been eight years in the making, but SCO has finally had its day at trial, and lost.


Mar 11

Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI? #

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Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st.


Mar 10

Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet #

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[Evan Prodromou]

There's no moss growing on StatusNet these days. The company has been busy announcing cloud service plans, an enterprise network service, and the 0.9 release...


Feb 18

Enterprise Edition... Space Invaders? #

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[Space Invaders Enterprise Edition]

What do you get when you cross business logic and 80s arcade video games?


Feb 17

Twitter Loves Open Source: Just Not as Much as Status.net #

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News is making the rounds that Twitter has put up a directory showing all the open source projects it loves, which in real terms means...

Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects #

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[Fail Whale]

Ever wonder whether a given FLOSS project is going to succeed or flounder?


Feb 11

Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work #

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[Thunderbird Logo]

Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable.


Feb 8

Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work #

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[Orca Assistive Technology Logo]

Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source.


Jan 28

Defective by Design is Defective #

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[Defective by Design Logo]

Once again the Defective by Design have sprung into action to denounce another product from Apple, and once again nobody really cares.


Jan 19

Disney Releases 3D Modeling Library Under BSD License #

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Disney Enterprises has released Ptex, a library, API, and file format used by Disney for rendering models for movies like Bolt as open source.


Jan 14

Permissive or Reciprocal? Choosing the Right License #

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The eternal question: Should businesses choose a permissive (BSD or MIT style) license, or go with reciprocal licenses to keep competitors in check?

Nov 6

Google Provides Closure: Releases Open Source JavaScript Optimizer #

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JavaScript programmers, rejoice! It's been a good week for open source from big companies.

Feb 1

Open Source Windows? Don't Count on It #

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Open Source Windows? Don't Count on It Obama's inauguration must have brought out the optimist in tech journalists.

Jul 11

Brian Proffitt Joins Linux Foundation as LDN Community Manager #

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After a long search, the Linux Foundation has found its community manager for its LSB Developer Network.


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