Wednesday - April 9, 2008
Microsoft is continuing to make good on its promises of openness. The Redmond software behemoth posted an additional 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation of Microsoft protocols that should help third-party developers -- including open source developers -- build more interoperable applications. The latest round of protocols are for Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. As of this moment, Microsoft has publicly posted more than 44,000 pages of protocol documentation, the company said.
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Friday - April 4, 2008
SCO, the company everyone in the Unix and Linux worlds loves to hate, has lost its latest angel investor. Private equity firm Steven Norris Capital Partners had filed a memorandum of understanding tentatively offering $5 million in stock and a $95 million loan the long-moribund SCO would use to pay off creditors and come back to life.
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Friday - March 28, 2008
Red Hat saw its stock move briskly higher Friday as investors digested a strong earnings performance and an optimistic outlook. The company posted record software license sales and issued guidance that topped Wall Street estimates for 2009. For its fourth quarter, Red Hat saw revenue of $141.5 million, a 27 percent increase over the year before.
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Friday - February 29, 2008
The head of the private-equity fund seeking to take over The SCO Group said Monday his investors are interested in building SCO's software business and not in what they can wring out of high-profile lawsuits with IBM and Novell. Stephen Norris said he hopes the planned investment in the company will lead to a settlement of pending suits and allow it to concentrate on building SCO's Unix software business.
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Tuesday - February 26, 2008
In 2003, Lawrence Lessig was interviewed by Open Education, a grassroots organization advocating for open educational content. Lessig responded, "The copyright environment is falsely being portrayed as a battle between property and piracy, with no recognition of the large, legitimate collaborative space in between."
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Monday - February 25, 2008
If Microsoft didn't figure prominently in the Linux blogs over the course of any given week, it would be as if the crew of the Enterprise temporarily forgot to pay attention to the Klingons -- it just doesn't happen. What was unusual this week, however, was that much of the discussion in the blogosphere was triggered by an overture of sorts by the Redmond giant to the open source community.
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Friday - February 22, 2008
Microsoft has made an announcement about future standards support, but Red Hat, in a response posted Thursday, would like to see Microsoft instead make a concrete announcement in support of existing ISO-approved, cross-platform standards next week in Geneva.
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Friday - February 22, 2008
Jon Lech Johansen was born to kill digital rights management technology. He started as a teen, adopting the handle DVD Jon. In addition to cracking open the technology used to encrypt DVDs, he's taken his hammer to Apple's FairPlay DRM. Recently, DVD Jon and partner Monique Farantzos founded DoubleTwist, a company that offers products designed to simplify the flow of media across devices and social networks.
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Friday - February 15, 2008
Here I was all ready to post my thoughts on user interfaces and ease of use, when news surfaced that the SCO Group has received an investment of $100 million to take it private. The company once claimed to own the rights to Unix and then proceeded to sue IBM and Novell for infringing its intellectual property.
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Thursday - January 24, 2008
HP announced Thursday a three-part software governance initiative to help companies address the legal, financial and security demands associated with using free and open source software. The company is donating its intellectual property for monitoring open source products to a new open source community.
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Wednesday - January 2, 2008
When it comes to creative works, such as a drawing or a piece of writing or music, the law is pretty clear about what is a derivative work and what isn't. Not so much with software. If the software is open source -- that is, licensed under the GNU General Public License or a similar license -- the waters get even murkier.
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