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Government of Kerala plans to deploy open-source software in its e-governance and literacy efforts
Well, mine, for one. Orrin Hatch (Republican senator from Utah) took $6,000 from the RIAA, that group that goes around suing children because its backers want the freedom to treat digital goods like physical goods. Except that they're not. And s
Ah, more money pouring into open source companies each day. Today, Hyperic announced that it has closed on its Series B funding:Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today announced that it has secured $6.1 milli
Not that Google would ever contemplate doing anything evil, of course. But Jeff suggests that it's collection of data and secrecy about how it will use (and what it is gathering) it is a problem for you, me, and everyone else:But here’s th
Deal includes 'covenants' to protect customers using Xandros software from potential patent-infringement claims by Microsoft
This from MSNBC. Very funny. Btw, my response? Of course. He's done a huge amount of good for computing. I still think we in open source have much to learn from Gates. Not his sense of style, of course, because he has none. Just look at his soft
And then there were two (software patent deals with Microsoft). Today, Xandros made its first newsworthy announcement in 10 years and indicated it has capitulated to Microsoft. I love how Microsoft tries to blur the lines between its patent folderol
Matt Lawton of IDC has a great job. He gets to spend his time analyzing open source business models and markets to see where it's all going. According to a research report he just released, it's going up. Way up. He has the standalone open
Michael Cote over at Redmonk has written an exceptional piece on Adobe's attempts to build out a developer ecosystem. Even more pertinently, he identifies a range of principles and practices that will help any company do so, and particularly wit
Larry has a great post that takes Novell's SUSE Linux numbers to task. Novell made much of its "83% jump in SUSE Linux revenues" but failed to highlight all the cracks in those numbers. Larry is much kinder than I would have been, but