CodePlex, patents and Linux code. An interesting few days for Microsoft open source.
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CodePlex, CodePlex, CodePlex!
Microsoft launched the CodePlex Foundation to facilitate
open source contributions, and confirmed the departure of Sam Ramji.
Patents, Patents, Patents!
The OIN confirmed the acquisition of 22 patents formerly
owned by …
Oracle buys Sun. Sun previews MySQL update, makes GlassFish Portfolio, OpenSSO and OpenDS available on EC2. Numerous partner announcements from the MySQL conference. Red Hat maps open source adoption. And more.
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Oracle to acquire Sun
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or like me you decided to
take a few inappropriately-timed days off) you probably noticed
that Oracle announced an agreement to acquire Sun this
week. Jay delivered our assessment on Oracle’s open
source credentials, while I followed up with some …
I’ll be attending the Openmind conference from October 2nd to 3rd and will be giving a keynote at the event.
Openmind is being organized by COSS, an interesting Finnish Free Software and Open Source development agency that helps Finnish and Scandinavian businesses and projects use and develop FLOSS.
Other keynote presenters at the event (that readers of this blog may know) include Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, Aleksander Farstad, CEO of eZ Systems AS and FLOSS researcher Rishab Aiyer Gosh.
I also hoping that since Monty is in the area, he will also be able to attend.
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