I have to say I'm disappointed. CentricCRM released a significant chunk of code under an OSI-approved open-source license, yet still doesn't seem to appreciate that open source means something to the community, and to the industry.
Read more »Dragging one's feet to open source
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Open Source Licensing for Software as a Service
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Open Source came before, if not provided a platform for, Software as a Service. Open Source Licenses have a big loophole for the most common method of software distribution today...
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Microsoft Makes Another Linux Friend: Turbolinux
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On July 10, Microsoft announced that Asian Linux distributor Turbolinux is the latest Linux company to join its Ecma Open XML-Open Document Format Translator Project.
Read more »Eben Moglen on WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio
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Open source software is built on the idea of cooperation: it's distributed for free, with code made available for everyone to improve. But there's debate about the future of this collaborative enterprise, with some players making deals with IT giants like Microsoft. We look at an industry at a crossroads and the evolving relationship between transparency and profit in software.
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Microsoft Declares Immunity From GPLv3
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Microsoft has issued a statement about its position in regard to the Free Software Foundation's version 3 of the GNU General Public License, which was crafted in part to protect users from possible Microsoft patent infringement lawsuits. Microsoft's stance?
Read more »Enterprise Unix Roundup: Ghosts of Xenix Past
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"Various theories are circulating as to why Microsoft has been so gung-ho about intellectual property enforcement lately. I have opined about it myself in other venues, basically putting forth the theory that the staff at Redmond is running a bit scared right now as they watch Linux slowly encompass the server market."
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Kernel space: Linux security non-modules and AppArmor
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"Long-time LWN readers will know that the Linux security module (LSM) API is controversial at best."
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Apache Foundation Co-Founder Likes GPLv3
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"One of the unsung features of GPLv3 is its grant of compatibility to the Apache and Eclipse open source licenses. Apache or Eclipse licensed code can now be combined with GPL code without creating a violation of the GPL."
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Is Microsoft OOXML the best deal open source can get?
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Instead of complaining about Microsoft’s tactics in maintaining Office’s monopoly, it’s past time the complainants got into the trenches and made Open Office a viable substitute.
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Is YOUR Standards Body in Microsoft's Pocket?
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While big executives usually prefer to turn a blind eye or deny this, there is a lot of ‘monkey business’ going on. Political manipulation and string-pulling are becoming too difficult to ignore, even if the consequences get a little nasty or inconvenient to people with 6-figure salaries [...] O-O-X-M-L: It has “corruption” written all over it.
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What happened to Show Us the Code?
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What ever happened to the guy who wrote this: "Your repeated claims that Linux violates Microsoft’s intellectual property has come to the attention of the Linux community. Not only that, but it’s been reported Microsoft has convinced businesses to pay for a Linux patent that you can’t provide."
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Developer annoys open source faithful over code release
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"Open-source developer Parallels finally released the source code for the Wine software used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday - but only after weeks of prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the IT forum Slashdot."
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That Which Survives
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Proprietary record formats will increase the difficulty of preserving our culture, on top of the problems with obsolete hardware interfaces and the decay of storage media we think of as permanent. File data formats that are not published standards are just asking for trouble for long term data storage.
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FSFE - Six questions to national standardisation bodies about MS-OOXML
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The following six questions relate to the application of the ECMA/MS-OOXML format to be accepted as an IEC/ISO standard. Unless a national standardisation body has conclusive answers to all of them, it should vote no in IEC/ISO and request that Microsoft incorporate its work on MS-OOXML into ISO/IEC 26300:2006 (Open Document Format).
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"The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3"
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A Groklaw link to a talk given by Eben Moglen on June 26th to the Scottish Society for Computers and Law, "The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3".
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