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- Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers
- After an expansion phase that saw the introduction of the iPhone, Android, LiMo, and JavaFX Mobile, the mobile phone platform landscape is shrinking again. Nokia today announced it plans to spend $410 million to acquire the pieces of Symbian Ltd. that it doesn't already own, and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Android will be 100% open source, says Google
- Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android "Android", including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google. [ See also: Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform ]...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Misys-Allscripts deal is all about SaaS
- Misys-Allscripts deal is all about SaaSMisys SaaSDana -- First, the components that have been open sourced by Misys, also known as the Braid Project on Sourceforge, are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license not the EPL. Second, although Misys offers a hosted EMR product called MyWay (2007 CCHIT Certified) which...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- XMF (zip)
- XMF is a state of the art dynamic programming language that provides an excellent basis for the construction of a broad range of applications including: Data Intelligence, DSLs and Software and System modeling. XMF has strong Java integration and allows applications to be architected using mixins of conventional Java and...
- Software downloads 2008-03-11
- Misys walks the open source walk
- Misys walks the open source walkMaybe you should have posted this one to the other blogThis does seem to be more of an open source story than a medical tech story. It's both, of course, but the emphasis appears to be on the former.RE: Misys walks the open source...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- An Experiment of Controlling Gigabit Wide Area Ethernet by GMPLS Supporting Layer-2 Switching Capability
- High speed and large capacity Ethernet technologies have been developed as represented by Gigabit Ethernet GE and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE). Currently, due to the growth of Ethernet technologies, Ethernet has been deployed in Wide Area Network WAN as well as Local Area Network LAN. Therefore Wide Area Ethernet is...
- White papers 2008-01-22
- Fairleigh Dickinson Strengthens Business Continuity Plans
- Fairleigh Dickinson University FDU offers a wide range of academic programs through their campuses. They were looking to do backups across their campuses, including their central data center in Teaneck, which serves as the hub for most services for the three campuses. They wanted to be able to do remote...
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software
- Now that the "Final Draft" of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. In part 1, we explored the notion of selling GPL software....
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- The CDDL example
- The CDDL exampleNow, if we could just replace the GPL with this or the FreeBSD licence...then maybe development would extend from the community to the commercial much further with respect to Linux etc.Communism, sorry, socialism never worked in Mother Russia and it sure doesn't do a damn thing for open...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- New GPLv3 draft takes aim at Microsoft/Novell but loosens crypto restrictions
- The Free Software Foundation FSF released the long-awaited third draft of the GNU General Public License GPL today. The draft was due out quite a bit earlier but was delayed after the Novell/Microsoft patent deal:We offer our apologies to the community for the delay in releasing Draft 3. Our original...
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- MyEclipse and JBoss spar over open source purity
- Genuitec CEO Maher Masri doesnt like what Red Hat employees such as Gavin King are saying about his companies use of open source in their MyEclipse product. Masri writes:I truly believe many people who wear the open source badge completely miss the intent and spirit behind it. And, in the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Oracle cozies up to Spring developers by making EJB runtime open source under Eclipse
- Oracle cozies up to Spring developers by making EJB runtime open source under EclipseI might be misreading[i]If Java and GlassFish are not allowing developers to access what they need of open source technology with ease, and if Oracle is now a top-tier member of Eclipse as it has now become,...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Sun woos FSF with GPLv3 carrot while Linux gets the stick
- Reaction to the Free Software Foundations upcoming revision of the GNU Public License (GPLv3) has been mixed so far, with many participants taking a wait-and-see attitude while others such as Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds actively opposing certain provisions. Now Sun has apparently decided to put its weight squarely behind...
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Why Java will be GPL'd
- It might be time for a certain ZDNet writer to eat crow. Or maybe not. A formal announcement is not expected until Monday, but some sites are already reporting that Sun has picked an open source license for Java, and they say its... GPL. Surprise![poll=6] The GNU Public License, or...
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Greg Stein: Three is enough
- This is part 2 of a 3 part interview with Greg Stein, one of the visionaries behind project hosting on Google Code. Part 1 covered how Google Code limits the number of licenses allowed in order to help the community battle open source license proliferation. In this part we'll discuss...
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- Google says no to license proliferation
- In August, Google launched a free project hosting service on Google Code. One of the unique features of this service is that it only supports 7 licenses (compared to over 50 listed at opensource.org). The stated intent of this restriction was to cut down on the proliferation of open source...
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Tivo and GPL: Beauty and the Beast?
- In the ongoing battle between Linux kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over the future of the GNU Public License, somehow DVR-maker Tivo has become either the whipping boy, or the poster child, depending on whose side you are on. FSF founder Richard Stallman even coined a term for...
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Why Java won't be GPL'd
- Why Java won't be GPL'dNo different than any other licenseIf you don't like the restrictions of a license, you don't use it. Simple.This applies to GPL, Microsoft Shared Source, any other source code under any other license.It certainly hasn't affected my earnings at all.Red Hat doesn't seem to think so.Or...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- Why Java won't be GPL'd
- Rumors have been swirling lately about what license Sun will choose for open source Java. One thing's clear to me - it won't be GPLv3. I know Jonathan Schwartz says that "using a GPL license is very much *on* the table", but the DRM restrictions famously pointed out by Linus...
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- New LGPL should work with Java
- In all the fanfare accompanying the 2nd draft of the GNU Public License version 3, one might have overlooked the release of the 1st discussion draft of its little brother, the "Lesser" GPL, or LGPL version 3. Originally called the "Library" GPL, LGPL is important to open source developers because...
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
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