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- LWUIT vs. JavaFX Mobile
- The light-weight user interface toolkit for Java ME LWUIT has been released as open source under the GPLv2+classpath exception license. LWUIT is a library that helps content developers in creating rich and consistent Java ME applications. LWUIT supports visual components, theming, transitions, animation, and more. Sounds similar to JavaFX doesn't...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Postgres Plus (zip)
- Postgres Plus is a distribution of PostgreSQL that contains the following additional features integrated in a convenient installation package: Postgres Studio for administration, Procedural Language Debugger, Geospatial extensions, GridSQL Parallel Query, MySQL Migration utility, Slony-II for replication, and pgmemcached for application scaling. The package contains both BSD and GPLv2 licensed...
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
- Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus Torvalds I was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under "Maybe". Like many of the speculative peices I write, it...
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refusewell can we trust Novell to anything now sincethey made deal with MS ......Don't think so. Well even if thay you be very nice to have a unix-fication under a mother distro .....im worry that MS goes up with dirty...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
- What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Reiser FS: The open source file system fallout
- Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?
- Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?I can see both sides. I think it should be up to the individual developer.In a way, Google IS distributing the software, since customers are using it, even though it runs on the cloud. But, on the other hand, the business friendly ability to...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promise
- Microsoft OSP is a pie crust promiseMS only has our best interest in mind.NOT!Keep it simple stupid is a good standard, MS standard is anything but simple.Let's see if I get this straightThe main gist of the paper is that OSP is not GPL and this, therefore, proves that...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- "First among equals" undermines community, says Linus
- "First among equals" undermines community, says LinusSugarCRM and Proprietary Open SourceLinus has put it beautifully, as ever. Not a point of view that Mr. Stallman would approve of no doubt, but I suspect Linus is OK with that, as am I. Another good example of an Open Source project with...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Simple Groupware (zip)
- Simple Groupware is an open source enterprise application offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with Outlook and cell phones, full-text search and many more. Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other groupware software,...
- Software downloads 2008-02-05
- Software emancipation: An open letter to Linus Torvalds
- Software emancipation: An open letter to Linus TorvaldsGPL IS politicalThe basic problem is that the GPL IS political with a big agenda behind it that puts it squarely at odds with commercial software houses. This creates a confrontation where one does not need to exist. This despite the fact that...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- Software emancipation: An open letter to Linus Torvalds
- [After years of watching the software industry twist itself in knots trying to differentiate "open" vs. "free" and having to re-invent code simply because it had the wrong comments at the top, I think it's time to put an end to the madness. This promoted me to write the following...
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Lanier's attack on open source religion
- Lanier's attack on open source religionWrongnessDo you mean "wrong" as in mistaken, or "wrong" as in immoral? I believe the former, but the belief of Richard Stallman and others that the free software model, as defined by Stallman, is the only legitimate development model has had many positive effects;...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- Just don't call it trolling, Verizon
- Just don't call it trolling, VerizonHmm..So that's why Verizon support technicians clam up the second you mention you use Linux.It's quite possible......that Verizon is right on this and that the Busybox developers and SFLC have overreached. I'm not at all sure I'd like a precedent that holds the unwitting...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Netbeans 6.0 weighs in at a paltry 12MB
- Netbeans 6.0 has gone gold. The open source IDE supports C, C++, Ruby, Java, and other languages. New features include a completely revamped code editor, an integrated profiler, and visual designers for web and mobile applications. Installation couldn't be easier. After opening up the Netbeans home page,...
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's been
- In what's been a controversial to say the least partnership, the Microsoft-Novell technology partnership and patent-protection arrangement has reached its one-year anniversary. Microsoft issued on November 7 a press release to mark the occasion, citing "30 new customers" that have signed up for certificates for three-year priority...
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- XAware goes open source
- XAware announced this week the release of its data integration product into open source. The company has also become a Gold Partner in the MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance program. In what's becoming a standard operating procedure for split open source/commercial projects, the company has two web sites: xaware.org for the...
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Google rejects GPL in new gPhone alliance
- Google rejects GPL in new gPhone allianceNot reallyUnlike the typical MS-license, the Apache license allows developers to do pretty much whatever they want with the source code, to include releasing derivatives under the GPL the two licenses are compatible.Sounds just like Microsoft "open source".;-)Their code, their licenseSounds fair enough to...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- Is a Java power play lurking beneath Google's Open Handset Alliance?
- On the heels of today's announcement by Google of the Open Handset Alliance, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has published a blog headlined Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community! The blog entry goes onto categorize the initial OHA platform called Android as Google's "new Java/Linux phone platform." Writes Schwartz:...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
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