The Document Foundation joins OpenDoc Society Obvious (but still good) move by TDF as it continues its rapid voyage through respectability and on to leadership. GNOME Foundation is hiring! Not a surprise that they would be looking for a new Executive Director now that Stormy has moved on to Mozilla. Tempting though it is, I’m [...]
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When Google announced yesterday that they were withdrawing from their Chrome browser embedded support in the HTML5 <video> tag for the H.264 encoding standard, there was immediate reaction. While some of it was either badly informed views by people who can’t handle indirect causality or astroturf trolling by competitors, some of it was well-observed. For [...]
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Hudson’s future | Hudson Labs After making a valiant attempt to negotiate an amicable outcome with Oracle, the Hudson community may well decide to rename itself Jenkins, move off Oracle infrastructure and build open governance underwritten by the Software Conservancy. Naturally Oracle will still be able to participate and co-develop the code it’s using for [...]
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OpenAM Book and eBook – Packt Publishing The first book about OpenAM is due for publication any day now. I hope they send me a review copy! Java/DevJam/2011/Fosdem/TalkSchedule I’m on the agenda for the Java dev-room at FOSDEM, speaking about the lessons open sourcing Java taught me. (Thanks, Tom!) I’ll likely be staying Friday-Sunday [...]
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School’s in for open source advocates Excellent initiative that deserves to be emulated all over the world. If you have any kind of meeting spaces at your company, you could run a similar event for local teenagers in your area. MariaDB Trademark Policy The proposed trademark policy for MariaDB is worth reading; they are keen [...]
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Apologies for the silence over the weekend – we’ve been taking a break in Helsinki. Because of it being the darkest part of the year, the city has a week-long night-time festival of light-related art installations, Season of Light, now in its third year. It’s not unlike the “nuit blanche” I saw in Paris earlier [...]
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WikiLeaks prompts internal federal crackdown As I recall this is exactly the auto-immune response Assange was seeking to cause… Open Source community building: a guide to getting it right Dave Neary is always a good person to involve if you’re trying to build an open source community, and this article of his is especially good. [...]
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LibreOffice Is the Default Office Suite for Ubuntu 11.04 Good to see the folks at Canonical supporting LibreOffice. This is a significant development and strong endorsement for the Document Foundation.
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My article on how human rights trump copyrights is now available in the Essays section. It has also been republished at OpenSource.Com.
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The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent You almost never hear about IBM’s patent shakedowns (and there are many of them) because former VP Marshall Phelps (now at Microsoft) invented such an efficient machine for doing it that victims rarely attempt to publicly defend themselves. Looks like they have now [...]
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