Oracle v Google: Why? Excellent discussion by Stephen O’Grady together with pointers to other commentary that’s worth considering. No conclusions, of course, since the whole scenario still beggars belief. Software Patents Wiki: Oracle v. Google (2010, USA) Crowdsourcing the analysis of the patents deployed by Oracle against Android.
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The news: Oracle sues Google over Android and mobile Java Hmm. Aren’t these both Linux Foundation members and OIN licensees? Fighting over open source technology in a Linux distro? Presumably this also indicates Oracle’s decision on Apache’s request for a TCK for Harmony. Oracle’s complaint against Google, on Scribd Makes it clear this is both [...]
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Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents “Patents make a lot of sense in many industries …. But in software these are just nuclear weapons in an arms race. They don’t foster innovation, they inhibit it.” Why software startups decide to patent … or not “The initial findings reported here … suggest that software entrepreneurs [...]
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The move back to collaborative co-development of open source will characterise the next phase of the open source movement.
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Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release “We’re really getting our grip around building a mission critical operating system that includes technologies from openSolaris that we’ve been working on for some time as well as technologies that we’ve more recently developed. … Solaris 11 will be a superset of what is in openSolaris.” Sounds like the [...]
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The golden age of open source? Matthew Aslett describes what I called “the open source bubble” as open source 3.0 and agrees it’s ending in favour of what he calls “open source 4.0″ or company-dominated (but not controlled) collaborative communities. He notes he’s adjusting his predictions in the light of the involvement of entities such [...]
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Here are links to three of the free tracks I’ve found on Amazon UK over the last week (you have to be in the UK to download these). The best is probably the dark and brooding Robert Rich track but I bet the retro (very short) Phil Collins track will appeal to plenty, even if [...]
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Copyright assignment – Once bitten, twice shy Excellent and thorough article about copyright assignment. If you are involved in the current, Canonical-sponsored Project Harmony, this is a must-read. Free MP3 Sampler: Peter Bradley Adams The sweet, beautiful and sad music that Eastmountainsouth produced turns out to live on in one half of the duo, Peter [...]
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Small administrative note: ComputerWorldUK switched over to a much more attractive design last night, and at the same time switched their blogging platform to Moveable Type. As a consequence, the URLs for my blog postings over there have all changed, along with the address for the RSS/Atom feed. Although I gather they will be maintaining [...]
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Its Official Software Will Be Unpatentable In NZ “Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power announced [on July 15] that he wouldn’t be modifying the proposed Patents Bill hence software will be unpatentable once the Bill passes into law.” — You may have already seen this [...]
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