Harmony disharmony. Microsoft’s Android revenue. And more.
# The Harmony Project released version 1.0 of its templates for standard contributor license agreements prompting comment and criticism from Dave Neary, Stephen Walli, Richard Fontana and Bradley M Kuhn.
# Microsoft reportedly demanded $15 for each Android smartphone handset made by Samsung, while the company …
[Read more]The future of MySQL. The SCO Group terminates Darl McBride. And more.
The future of MySQL
Monty Widenius urged Oracle to give up on MySQL in order to
land Sun while Richard Stallman, Knowledge Ecology International
(KEI) and the Open Rights Group sent a letter to the
EC urging it to block Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. All of which
prompted Florian Mueller, who it should be noted is working with
Widenius as part of his campaign, to claim that there is growing public opposition to
Oracle owning Sun’s MySQL.
Meanwhile The VAR Guy reported on rumours that …
[Read more]Patents. M&A. Adoption. Business strategies. And more.
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Patents
# Red Hat urged
the Supreme Court to to make clear that it excludes software from
patentability, while the SFLC and the FSF also filed briefs with the US Supreme Court
arguing against software patents.
Investment and M&A
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Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more.
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The elephant in the room
Plenty of news emerged form the Hadoop Summit this week,
including Cloudera announced support for Amazon Elastic Block Storage
(EBS) and introduced Sqoop, open source tool for importing
databases into Hadoop, while Yahoo! Released! The! Yahoo!
Distribution! Of! Hadoop! opening up its Hadoop developments to
the wider community. As Savio Rodrigues noted, there has been a
surge in the number of contributors for the Hadoop project in the
last year.
Best of the rest
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Maybe it’s a coincidence but this week has seen evidence of tension between commercial open source vendors and elements of the open source user community. Matt Asay stirred up something of a hornet’s nest with his post questioning how open source vendors can find ways of encouraging users to contribute either code of cash in return for free software.
The question itself might be innocuous but Matt’s use of the term “free-riders” prompted a couple of angry responses. Storm in a tea-cup stuff really.
Meanwhile, in a unrelated …
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