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You can read the latest draft of the GPL (v3) here. I continue to be bullish on the draft, and hopeful that we can sort through the DRM/NRM (Novell Rights Management :-)/etc. so that we can get to a final version soon. Some of the best (though still
Javier Soltero (CEO, Hyperic) has a great post taking the download bean counters to task for...counting downloads. Actually, his qualm is not with those who tout their download counts so much as those who a) inflate their download counts (so that the
Eivind Throndsen of Trolltech sent me an email the other day that left me frustrated and discouraged. He passed along a message he received from Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. I've blogged about Pandora before - it's a fantastic music
Jordi Mas has written a thoughtful post on the value of community in companies, and particularly open source ones. Community, as Jordi points out, is not exclusive to open source - Microsoft, for example, has a vibrant and active developer community.
The ODF Alliance has succeeded in getting governments on board with the competing standard to Microsoft's Open XML, but the private sector remains unconvinced
The Linux Foundation, the combined OSDL/FSG group just announced it's BoD. Not too different than before. The Linux Foundation board of directors includes: James Bottomley, Linux subsystem maintainer and vice president and chief technology offic
Recently merged organization will focus on helping the Linux community compete with Windows
A year ago the Department of Homeland Security contracted with Coverity, a maker of a source code analysis tool, to harden open source software. (Stanford University and Symantec are also involved.) Basically, developers at open source projects (not
Revised license for free and open source software set to enter final draft following feedback
I received an invitation in my email today for an upcoming ">CIO-only MySQL webinar. I thought it was interesting because of the audience for MySQL (not to mention the fact that MySQL is clearly cutting into my OSBC territory :-).Open source