A better way to fight the FUD
A few days ago I criticized the OSDL and asked its leadership to display some PR skills.Yesterday, OSDL President Stuart Cohen (left)answered the call.
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Latest Posts
Microsoft's call for patent reform
You know the patent system has gotten bad when a company holding 4,500 patents is calling for patent reform. According to the piece in InfoWorld, Microsoft is calling for patent reform in the United States.
Wind River's open source moves
Wind River has continued its move toward open source, joining Eclipse and even contributing to SourceForge. I think this is big news, and not just because yet-another proprietary software outfit is dipping its toe in the open source water.
Is OSI license reform stalling?
Is the Open Source Initiative work of reforming open source licensing stalling? That's one possible conclusion from word they now have their third president in three months, as originally reported by our own David Berlind.
Parrots and Perls - Where is Perl 6, anyway?
The Parrot team has announced the release of Parrot 0.12.
How to fight the FUD
What the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) needs right now is a little PR help. So start spreading the GNUs.
Stallman's new campaign to free the BIOS
The biggest threat to free software may be Moore's Law. That's because while it's easy to get free applications and free operating systems, you can't get a free BIOS.
Debian release update
Wondering about the status of Debian "Sarge," otherwise known as the next stable release of Debian? Andreas Barth has posted an update for the next Debian installer release candidate (RC3), which also gives some clue as to when Sarge might finally show up for duty.
Major applications tiptoe toward open source
Late last year we identified a trend of second-tier application vendors making their products open source.The trend for 2005 is for major applications to tiptoe into this water, looking for competitive advantage with limited releases of source code.