Licensing Change for Solaris 10 and Solaris Cluster It’s still only an evaluation license, but at least they have got rid of the limited period. (tags: Solaris Oracle)
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☞ Anti-Trust Games
Posted on September 10, 2010 by Simon Phipps
A Peek Behind the Curtain of the Texas Antitrust Complaints against Google Fascinating and detailed analysis of the anti-trust complaints against Google. The conspiracy theories Pamela espouses are well-based. At the start of last year as I was working on other technology policy issues with colleagues in Brussels, there were constant stories of indirectly-but-identifiably Microsoft-sponsored [...]
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☞ Will Run And Run
Posted on September 9, 2010 by Simon Phipps
FSF responds to Oracle v. Google and the threat of software patents “Google could have avoided all this by building Android on top of IcedTea, a GPL-covered Java implementation based on Sun’s original code, instead of an independent implementation under the Apache License. … It’s sad to see that Google apparently shunned [the GPL's] protections [...]
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☞ Transparency: Wrong and Right
Posted on September 8, 2010 by Simon Phipps
The fishy mandate of ACTA If you thought there was something fishy about the European Commission engaging in secret negotiations at ACTA behind the backs of the European Parliament and against the interests of Europe’s digital society, you’d be right. I missed this when it was first posted back in April, but it turns out [...]
☞ Governments Protecting Outdated Business Models
Posted on September 7, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory…Ain’t Good pointer here by Glyn to an action we can take to check the effects of pro-patent lobbying in Europe. He misses a trick when he doesn’t point out that even RF licensing of patents in standards can be toxic to open source. If the patent holder uses a non-royalty-based restriction [...]
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☏ URGENT: Has Your MEP Signed The ACTA Written Declaration?
Posted on September 6, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Here is a list of MEPs for UK constituencies. As of now, none of these MEPs has signed the Written Declaration on ACTA.It’s entirely possible one of them is representing you – or rather, failing to do so. Since we now only need nine more signatures in the next two days to enact this Written [...]
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☞ Innovation, and how to prevent it
Posted on September 6, 2010 by Simon Phipps
The VC-free startup The trend for VC-free startups is strong, and Dale’s article makes for interesting reading. ForgeRock is another example of a VC-free startup, and I’d say we fit Dale’s profile pretty well. This is not to say we will never seek investment now we’re bootstrapped, of course, but the idea of a VC-funded [...]
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☞ Modern
Posted on September 5, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Ultra All Stars: The 2010 Sampler for Amazon This free sampler album (only downloadable by people with US Amazon.Com accounts) has some great electronic/dance tracks on it, especially the ones from Late Night Alumni and Kaskade. ‘Patently Absurd’ Lawsuits Proliferate Among Web Firms “The problem with these sorts of lawsuits is that they have become [...]
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☞ Webmink’s Law of Preservation of Win
Posted on September 3, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed? I coined a new (tongue-in-cheek) law yesterday – “For every epic fail there is an equal and opposite epic win” – and this could well be an instance of it. A clever and keen bunch of people are being liberated from the expectation someone [...]
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⚐ Gosling Webcast
Posted on September 3, 2010 by Simon Phipps
Next week JavaZone, the conference that brought you Lady Java and Java Forever will be held in Norway. To celebrate the opening of the new ForgeRock Norway office, we’ve arranged for a party just before the conference starts, on Tuesday evening. If you are in Oslo and would like to attend, please send an RSVP [...]
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