November
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Nov 25, 2010
Microsoft patent move may be defensive
Microsoft’s plan to purchase 882 patents from Novell may be as much a defense move as an aggressive affront to Linux. One observer pointed out that the Redmond, Wash software company –and the so-called CPTN consortium acquiring the portfolio — may want to prevent VMware, IBM or other rivals from gaining access to the multitude [...] read more...
Nov 24, 2010
Is Novell's Linux business still up for sale?
Observers say the dust hasn’t settled on the so called Attachmate-Novell merger –and that Novell’s Linux business may still be up for sale. Attachmate is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. “It’s not Attachmate buying Novell. It’s really a private equity deal to buy Novell … [...] read more...
Nov 22, 2010
Open source could alleviate Cisco's growth woes
Adding an open source-based routing item to Cisco's router family would provide competitive differentiation. read more...
Third dimension of the open source incline is copyright
A programmer who assigns copyright to a corporate entity may be no better off than an unpaid employee for a proprietary project. read more...
Nov 18, 2010
Open only wins with a business model
Without a business model for rooting phones, the carriers will keep exploiting the market. read more...
How much patent trouble is Google really in
While most players are playing a dance of suit and countersuit Google can only deny the charges against it because it lacks the kind of patent portfolio that would let it fight back. read more...
Nov 17, 2010
Can or should in open source
Whether Oracle and Microsoft should do what they can do is the question. read more...
Novell anoints Baracus open source cloud management tool
Novell announced today the release of and support for an open source project called Baracus that provides a boot and build management system for cloud needs. The multiplatform cloud management tool is described as a network based boot manager, power controller and provisioning engine for thousands of hosts and virtual machines. It supports most leading operating [...] read more...
Nov 11, 2010
Hacker wins contest for open-source Kinect driver
A hacker won a contest to be the first person to successfully create an open-source driver for Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensitive controller. read more...
Red Hat announces Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the latest release of its operating platform. The company said the new version is designed to support the new enterprise architectures of today, whether physical, virtual or cloud-based. The company said the new release includes “hundreds of technical feature enhancements” that are designed to [...] read more...
Nov 10, 2010
Is the source of open source the root of all evil
Even if software is free time is not. read more...
Is Linux FOSS or open source?
FOSS activist Alex Oliva says GPL Linux is actually open core, which he terms “free bait.” read more...
Nov 09, 2010
Should you adopt Google's open source project to speed Web applications?
The involvement of a third-party vendor makes this Apache optimization more likely to gain enterprise adoption. read more...
Firefox 4 beta 7 set for release on Nov 10
Firefox 4 beta 7 is now slated to be available Wednesday. The latest date, announced by project leader Mike Beltzner during the Mozilla group’s weekly meeting, seems pretty solid but there is “one issue we’re investigating,” Beltzner noted. The team originally expected beta 7 in September but the code was held up by a number of technical [...] read more...
Nov 04, 2010
If Russia wants open source then Russia needs glasnost
Turning open source into an enemy of freedom is always going to be political. And open source is not by its nature political. read more...
GNOME has the help wanted sign out
GNOME needs to find itself an entrepreneur, and set a direction pretty quickly, or it’s going to be run over from behind. read more...
Nov 03, 2010
GNOME has the help wanted sign out
GNOME needs to find itself an entrepreneur, and set a direction pretty quickly, or it’s going to be run over from behind. read more...
Inside the OpenOffice.org coup
A coup without bottom-up support tells the community the new boss is the same as the old boss. read more...
Nov 02, 2010
Government open source momentum fading
For open source to start saving government money, government needs to hire more programmers, and give those programmers authority over important functions that until now have been contracted out. read more...
Why Yelp took Mrjob open source
While the package as-written saves Yelp money, it would appear to be a gold mine for Amazon. read more...
