Announcement – Illumos Project “A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we’re just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general participation of, the general public.” (from the announcement on opensolaris-discuss) Brazilian Government Signs OpenJDK Manifesto [...]
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Apple Ships More Mobile Phones Than Motorola For The Second Quarter In A Row More a statement of Motorola’s decline that Apple’s advance, but still a significant sign of a market transition that I am sure will continue as “phone” becomes an app on a mobile device. (tags: Motorola Apple Phone mobile) Dell and HP [...]
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Main link: The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline? O’Grady has come to the same conclusion that I did at OSCON, namely that the “open source bubble” may be over – the period where it was assumed open source would be directly monetised – and it’s time for a resurgence of the [...]
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While the decision by the US Library of Congress to create exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for jailbreaking iPhones is very welcome, the reaction has been just a touch too euphoric. There are two big reasons I’m only vaguely impressed. One concerns market power and its potential abuse, the other concerns global trade.
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EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers Congratulations to the EFF on this victory for digital liberty. We mustn’t over-state the victory, however. The DMCA is still an unnecessarily broad act that chills innovation and liberty for Americans and sets a norm that endangers digital liberty worldwide. Moreover, the [...]
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How Will You Measure Your Life? Worthwhile reading for a Monday from Clayton Christensen. (tags: Business Management Philosophy Zeitgeist) Good-bye, Sun Bryan Cantrill says his farewells but rehosts his blog promisingly at dtrace.org and makes this great observation: “One of Sun’s greatest strengths was that we technologists were never discouraged from interacting directly and candidly [...]
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WS-I Transitions To OASIS In the debate about open standards at the Cloud Summit on Tuesday, one speaker argued powerfully that standards follow innovation rather than delivering it, an observation that those of us with involvement in the world of standards have long understood. Early standardisation indicates there are vendors attempting to lock a market, [...]
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The relationship between Open Core, dual licensing and contributions “This means that Open Core companies, in itself, will have an easier time in monetizing their software, but will receive much less contributions in exchange. As I wrote before, it is simply not possible to get something like Linux or Apache with Open Core.” (tags: OpenCore [...]
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Today is a significant milestone for the new venture I’m helping, ForgeRock. We’ve announced availability of our first full independent release of OpenAM, the open source authentication and access management system. If you look at the release, you’ll see it’s a significant update, with SAML2 support, fine-grained authentication controls and a host of other improvements. [...]
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Phase relationships in the standardization process James Gosling wrote in 1990: “standards are increasingly being viewed as competitive weapons rather than as technological stabilizers. Companies use standards as a way to inhibit their competition from developing advantageous technology. As soon as technical activity is observed by political/economic forces, their interest rises dramatically because they see [...]
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