Microsoft: “more than half your Android devices are belong to us”. And more
# Microsoft claimed that more than half of the world’s ODM industry for Android and Chrome devices is now under license to Microsoft’s patent portfolio following its agreement with Compal Electronics.
# Hadapt expanded its board of directors and confirmed its $9.5m series A funding round.
# Appcelerator entered into an agreement …
[Read more]Red Hat revenue up 28% in Q2. Funding for NoSQL vendors. And more.
# Red Hat reported net income of $40m in the second quarter on revenue up 28% to $281.3m.
# 10gen raised $20m in funding, while DataStax closed an $11m series B round, while also releasing its DataStax Enterprise and Community products. Additionally Neo Technology …
[Read more]Paranoid Android. Canonical and Gnome. A new OSI. And more.
Paranoid Android
If you are interested in the potential violation of the GPL by
the Android kernel you have probably already immersed yourself in
the numerous blog posts published on the topic. If not, start
with Sean Hogle’s analysis or Bradley M Kuhn’s overview of the original allegations and work
backwards from there, not forgetting a detour for the obligatory Microsoft connection. Linus
Torvalds said
claim “seems totally bogus”. In the meantime, Microsoft …
Digia gets Qt. VMware makes waves. Rackspace launches OpenStack support. And more.
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# Digia signed an agreement with Nokia to acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services business.
# VMware’s Springsource division acquired Wavemaker.
# Rackspace formally launched services and support for OpenStack via Rackspace Cloud Builders.
# Red Hat defended …
[Read more]Bradley M Kuhn published an interest blog post at the weekend explaining why he believes Canonical is about to go down the open core licensing route and heavily criticising the company for doing so.
My take on the post is that it is the worst kind of Daily Mail-esque fear mongering and innuendo. Not only does Bradley lack any evidence for his claim, the evidence he presents completely undermines his argument and distracts attention from what could be a very important point about copyright assignment.
The premise? Mark Shuttleworth has admitted that he plans to follow the open core licensing strategy with Canonical.
The evidence? Mark praises the strategy Trolltech took of selling proprietary licenses.
The problem? Trolltech did not follow the open core licensing strategy. Neither did MySQL, which Bradley suggests …
[Read more]A recent pitch from the folks opposing Oracle’s ownership of MySQL via acquisition of Sun Microsystems got me thinking. The plea, ‘Oracle can have Sun, but not MySQL’ may make sense to some, but to me it speaks to the irony of closing out Oracle or any company or anyone from open source. Upon further reflection and given 2010 is off to a roaring pace of M&A, I also began to wonder what the impact of the ‘Save MySQL’ campaign could be on open source in M&A, particularly if it was to successfully derail the acquisition or somehow decouple MySQL from Sun under Oracle?
What would it mean to carve out the open source projects, components, teams and support from companies involved in mergers and acquisitions over …
[Read more]Microsoft makes a patent promise. JBoss is certifiable. And more.
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# Microsoft announced that it will be applying its Community Promise to the ECMA 334 (C#) and ECMA 335 (CLI) specifications, reducing patent concerns related to Mono.
# Red Hat achieved EAL 2+ security certification for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
# A European Commission white paper on standards stirred some controversy with regards to open source. …
[Read more]to build connector/odbc 5.1 on mac os x leopard, the first thing you will need is xcode. then you will want to install a recent version of mysql (5.0 or 5.1, or even 6.0 if you are feeling adventurous).
to be able to build the gui setup library, you will need to
install qt, but i have found it easiest to work with qt3,
not the latest qt4. you can download the last release of that
from
trolltech’s ftp server — the file is called
qt-mac-free-3.3.8.tar.gz. you will need to apply
this patch to allow it to compile on leopard.
i configure it with some options to eliminate stuff i don’t care
about, and to build statically:
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Today Nokia announced their intention to acquire an open source tools manufacturer, Trolltech.
Trolltech is an open source company by virtue of their dual-licensing of the QT tool kit that is used by a number of products but probably most notably the KDE desktop. Though they do dual license and sell commercial proprietary products as well.
The Nokia deal was reported in kroners …
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