Monday, May 9th, 2005
Among the occasional emails that drop into my inbox are ones from Tony Mobily who edits the Free Software Magazine. However, the one that I got today was not the usual one in the business of journalism - rather it was a pointer to an editorial (or a pill as ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
Groklaw is carrying a story tonight titled "Hints About GPL3". Well, I had a rather stupid question - why is it that one of the most popular open source licenses is not being developed in the open?
UPDATE: After exchanging emails with some people, it seems that the draft is being ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
Go get it here.
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Groklaw just published an open letter from representatives of the FOSS community directed against a new IPR policy at OASIS. However, I do wonder if there was any discussion behind the scenes at first before taking this step. The IETF just might be next...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
The first issue of the Free Software Magazine has just been published. Excellent articles on file formats and XML.
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Daniel Quinlan of ASF mentioned in a recent newsgroup posting that Sender-ID negotiations between the FOSS world and Microsoft may restart:
I also briefly met with Ryan Hamlin, the GM of Microsoft's Safety
Technology & Strategy group, and he's interested in attempting a second
try at the patent license negotiation between us (well, ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
A recent GrokLaw story mentions an interesting occurance. Apparently Jeff V. Merkey, affiliated with the Canopy Group, which itself is a major shareholder in SCO, offered to buy a snapshot of the Linux kernel for $50,000 under a BSD license:
We offer to kernel.org the sum of $50,000.00 US for ...
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
Coming on the heels of GrokLaw article describing Sun's new stance fighting against towards open source software, is a strange CNET story about a "new patent" filed for by Sun:
Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz, who speaks often of innovation in sales methods and not just technology, is seeking a patent ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
Newforge is carrying an interesting interview with Larry Rosen, general counsel for OSI. Among some of the more interesting tidbits:
And the second point: I don't have any basis for making the statement that the patent itself is valid or invalid. First, no one has seen the patent, because it is ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
Microsoft posted today their new license for Sender-ID protocol (which grew out of SPF/RMX/DMP/DRIP/etc. work in the ASRG). It still requires a signed license directly from MSFT for each implementer . More so, the license states excplictly on the bottom that the information on licensors may be published publically. Others ...
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