It feels a bit like the enterprise open-source market has slowed. Not the sales aspect of the market, but the number of new players entering the market. We're getting greater breadth but not greater depth.
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Sun accused of hardball open source project tactics
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Neil Wilson, a recently laid-off Sun Microsystems employee and a former owner of the OpenDS project, has accused his ex-boss of using strong-arm tactics to keep control of his project.
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Free Software Foundation - GPL Compliance Lawsuits
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There's been a lot of news coverage recently about the lawsuits Busybox has filed against GPL violators. They're getting a lot of attention because analysts are interested in seeing if the GPL will be tested in a U.S. court. But that's not all the big news in the world of GPL enforcement: there's also a case in France over the Freebox that's starting up.
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Security Threat to Linux is coming? What kind of control an operating system should offer users?
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what kind of control an operating system should offer users? Say when we worry about traffic safety, most technicians try very hard to somehow arm the car to be a tank. A Economics Nobel Prize winner once argued that the safter the cars are, the more reckless people drive and the less safe a drive is.
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OpenSolaris follows Linux to the mainframe
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Free-wheeling Linux was an improbable enough operating system to be used on IBM's mainframe line, but now an even more unlikely operating system is making an appearance there: Sun Microsystems' Solaris.
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Avoiding BSD v. GPL licensing issues
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In the wake of recent flareups over the inclusion of BSD licensed code in GPL licensed programs, a little extra vigilance can go a long way.
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After winning patent suit, z4 sues Microsoft again
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A company that was just awarded more than $140 million from Microsoft in a patent-infringement suit has sued the software giant again, this time for alleged infringements in Windows Vista and Office 2007.
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Why Microsoft Rattles The Patent Saber - Microsoft Blog - InformationWeek
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It must be maddening to believe you command developer loyalties and lead legions worldwide, then watch developers flock to the Linux kernel. Maddening, that is, if you're Microsoft.
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Some important news from Wikipedia to understand clearly
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"...the Wikimedia Foundation Board has agreed with a proposal made by the Free Software Foundation that will permit Wikipedia (and other such wikis) to relicense under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. [...] My endless thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible, from Richard Stallman and the FSF board..."
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Brendan's Roadmap Updates: JavaScript 2 and The Open Web
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"Herewith a hacked-up version of my S5 slides (UPDATED URL), with notes and commentary interpolated at the bottom of each slide...."
http://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/eich-media-ajax-2007/
http://developer.mozilla.org/wiki-images/en/d/d8/Moz_ffx_openStandards_1... ;)
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Create impressive charts with Open Flash Chart
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Creating a high-quality chart for the Web can be a challenging task, but open source software like Open Flash Chart (OFC) makes it a cinch. As you might guess from its name, the core engine of OFC is written in Adobe Flash.
Read more »SELF: News November 2007
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"...SELF News is a monthly newsletter about the SELF Project and related issues. SELF aims to be the central platform with high quality educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards. It is based on world-class Free Software technologies that permit both reading and publishing free materials, and is driven by a worldwide community..."
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Why Firefox 2.0.0.11 Happened So Fast
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"Prior to the release of Firefox 2.0.0.10 a minor security issue was discovered in the drawImage method in the Canvas API. This particular method takes an image (in the form of an IMG DOM Element), extracts the image data, and puts it into the Canvas at the desired points..."
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Window Snyder: Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Metrics
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"Jeff Jones, a director of security strategy at Microsoft published a report today about counting bugs.
Read more »SeaMonkey 1.1.7 released
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"The SeaMonkey project has updated the SeaMonkey Internet suite to patch three security vulnerabilities including one that could allow a cross site scripting attack by exploiting a jar:// protocol weakness..."
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/1.1.7/
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