For the next two weeks Ill be pointing to video highlights from last years open Education 2007 conference in order to whet your appetite for this years meeting. First up on the hit parade is Brian ....... Read more 15 hours ago
Commercial licensing is a double-edged sword
Larry Dignan reports on a coming revolution in software support and maintenance contracts, prompted by Dennis Howletts excellent analysis of why the reliance of enterprise software vendors on mainten ....... Read more 21 hours ago
HyperLINKS August 18, 2008
Mondays HyperLINKS&open Source receives some well-deserved recognition
No cloud computing for Dell&case closed
Business Week recognizes open source at Red Hat convention
Dan Woods takes a trip down ....... Read more 1 day ago
*astTECS to offer Asterisk-based Telephony solutions in India
*astTECS announced that it would offer Asterisk based telephony solutions, an open source development with powerful features like IVR, Voicemail, Call conferencing and is open to compete with establis ....... Read more 1 day ago
Asking the right questions of open source
A classic Morecambe and Wise comedy sketch from the 1970s sees Andre Previn criticizing Eric for playing all the wrong notes while attempting the Greig Piano Concerto. Morecambe responds that he is in ....... Read more 2 days ago
open Source is not making enough rich people richer
I keep seeing this posts by some of the manager types on planet MySQL about how they or some other guy is worrying about open source vendors not raking in billions or revenues are not stealing billion ....... Read more 1 day ago
Google Invested Once More In open Source Lab
If Google?s initial $350,000 pledge to Oregon State University?s open Source Lab wasn?t enough, take note. Numerous news sources of Oregonian relation, and now the Associated Press, have relayed info ....... Read more 3 days ago
Doug Levin stepping down as head of Black Duck
Black Duck CEO Doug Levin, who started the software IP scanning company turned software development scanning, search and analysis suite player five and a half years ago, is stepping down as the compan ....... Read more 4 days ago
Major (US) Court Victory for open Licenses
As reported on Ars Technica, a recent United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision has given some legal teeth to open licenses:
The lower court had found that redistributing softwar ....... Read more 5 days ago
Radar Theme: open Beyond Source
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly]
The lessons and techniques of open source are applicable beyond source code. open st ....... Read more 6 days ago
U.S. court confirms open source license legitimacy
There was a major open source legal development this week and surprisingly, it did not involve the string of BusyBox lawsuits, which included settlement from mobile and telecom giant Verizon in March ....... Read more 5 days ago
Landmark Case Upholds open Source Licenses
The U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit has issued a wondrously clear and unambiguous opinion (pdf) that supports the enforceability of open source and public licenses. It is great news for u ....... Read more 5 days ago
Judge: Even 'Free' open-Source Code is Licensed
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The open source community – and tech-savvy model railroad enthusiasts – were handed a victory Wednesday when an appeals court ruled that people who use open source content can be found g ....... Read more 6 days ago
open Education 2008 Registration is open!
open Education 2008 Conference registration is now open! This years event will be special in a number of ways (more on this soon!), so please come join us for a fabulous event dedicated to open educa ....... Read more 7 days ago
Sometimes a developer community isn?t the answer
I was in San Francisco at the tail-end of last week and was fortunate to have some time to meet up with Josh Berkus, a member of the PostgreSQL core team and, until recently, a Sun employee.
Our conve ....... Read more 8 days ago
open Web Podcast Episode 1: HTML 5 news, Web Workers, W3C Selectors, and Dojo happenings
Welcome to the inaugural episode of a new podcast to cover news, happenings, and our opinions on the open Web (download the open Web Podcast episode one directly or subscribe to it). When I say our ....... Read more 11 days ago
open source: assimilate and thrive
Matt Asay writes today about the prospects for open source vendors going public or, more likely, being acquired, and wonders whether open source vendors should hold out for an IPO or capitulate an ....... Read more 12 days ago
VMware Joins The Linux Foundation
VMware joins leading Linux consortium to address increasing adoption of virtualization and cloud computing with Linux
SAN FRANCISCO ? August 6, 2008 ? The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization ....... Read more 13 days ago
Hackers target Google Gadgets
(AP)
AP - One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing — which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to ....... Read more 13 days ago
Digium Announces Keynote Speakers for Expanded AstriCon ?08
Digium, the Asterisk Company, recently announced that Brian Aker from Sun Microsystems/MySQL and Stefan Öberg from Skype are slated as keynote speakers for AstriCon ‘08. AstriCon, the world ....... Read more 13 days ago