The few legal researchers in this area worldwide seem hell-bent on fitting
free software into a copyright mold, even though the introduction of
copyright coverage of software had been very divisive in its time and cut
hackers (I use this term interchangeably with free software developer) off
from a previously communally held resource. This may once have been the only
option, but I now believe that the exclusive reliance on copyright has had
its day.
A new law to protect free software, a sui generis or "of its own kind"
legislative regime, is warranted for a number of reasons: First, it will
extend the ambit and number of rights already granted in free software
licenses, which would prevent vexatious cases such as SCO vs. IBM from ever
coming to the fore by giving exemptions, for example, from liability for
inadvertent infringements of copyright by free software dev... (more)
According to Larry Rosen, "One of the challenges to writing about licensing
in a book not specifically written for licensing professionals is to make a
very dull subject interesting." A Complete and Thorough BookRosen has met
that challenge in his exciting guide to the Open Source licensing zoo. As an
extra fillip he offers a set of five Open Source Principles so clear and
brief that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) would be well advised to adopt
them, plus two new licenses intended to solve not only the weaknesses of some
of the current Open Source licenses, but resolve the many problems that
revolve around the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) GNU General Public
License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
This clear book spends 314 pages in detailed discussion of more legal issues
than this review can touch on. The author has the advantage of having trai... (more)
In his open letter to the open source community Darl McBride states, "it is
clear that the Open Source community needs a business model that is
sustainable if it is to grow beyond a part-time avocation into an
enterprise-trusted development model."
I have news for you, Darl -- a new business model has already been invented.
You're just not a part of it.
Whether using the Apache Web server, Linux, gcc, make, Apache Tomcat, PHP, or
one of the many, many other open source packages, virtually every company
today is heavily dependent upon open source. Virtually everyone.
The 'collaborative' process by which all these projects get created is based
on a new business model. It's a business model defined by the *users* of the
technology - not by vendors. Individuals in companies all around the world
are simply working together to create the technologies collaboratively - and ... (more)
LinuxWorld brings here the letter, sent to the 535 members of Congress, in
full:
February 27, 2004
The SCO Group, Inc. (SCO), has recently sued IBM and Novell and launched
broad attacks on the legality of and the economic justification for so-called
open source licensing, including the free licensing of Linux. As an
organization dedicated to advancing the skills and contributions of computer
researchers and developers, the USENIX Association is compelled to address
and refute the position SCO has taken regarding open source software.
Since 1975, USENIX has brought together the community of engineers, system
administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of
the computing world. USENIX was here before SCO. USENIX was here before
Linux. USENIX and its members serve as an unparalleled demonstration that the
best way to support advances in comput... (more)
I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having
said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because
they can only give you answers."
Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would
share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application
pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered.
From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed.
What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX?
Eric Miraglia of Yahoo!
1. (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the
iPhone SDK vs using AJAX?
2. How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to
make it faster?
3. When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for
my rich web apps? Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)
Oracle on Thursday announced fiscal 2010 Q2 GAAP earnings per share of
$0.29, up 15% compared to last year.
Second quarter GAAP total revenues were up 4% to $5.9 billion, while
quarterly GAAP net income was up 12% to $1.5 billion. GAAP new software
license revenues were up 2% to $1.7 billion.
GAAP software license updates and product support revenues were up 14% to
$3.2 billion. GAAP operating income was up 10% to $2.2 billion and GAAP
operating margin was up 200 basis points to 37%.
Oracle also intends to build and sell complete systems for private cloud
computing platforms, combining Sun hardware and storage with Oracle's.
Oracle Named Exclusive Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo 2010
GAAP operating cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis was $8.7 billion,
up 7%.
Second quarter non-GAAP earnings per share were up 15% to $0.39. Non-GAAP
total revenues were up 3% to ... (more)
Alta Data Technologies (Alta) announced today the relocation to a new, state
of the art headquarters in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The new location is a
standalone 9000 sq ft building on the Aero Mechanical campus off Rio Rancho
Blvd NE.
“Over the past year, our growth has shown that our AS15531 (MIL-STD-1553)
and ARINC product lines have been well established in the commercial market
place. Wide customer acceptance of our PCI, PMC, PCI Express interface cards
proves that Alta products are the leading-edge technologies required for
aerospace and network applications,” stated Jake Haddock, CTO of Alta. He
added, “With our projected growth, it became obvious that we needed to
relocate to a larger, state of the art facility and we couldn’t be happier
than be on the Aero Mechanical (AMII) campus. AMII is a leader in repair of
composite flight surfaces, nacelles and other ... (more)
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), der weltweit führende Anbieter
digitaler Sicherheitslösungen, hat heute die Erweiterung der Produktreihe
seiner Verkaufsstellen-Terminals MagIC3 bekannt gegeben. Das neue MagIC3
-Produkt ist eine kosteneffiziente Lösung für drahtlose Zahlungsvorgänge,
die weder ein spezielles Abonnement erfordert noch zusätzliche
Kommunikationskosten verursacht. Das bemerkenswert leichte und kompakte
MagIC3 W-1 mit einzigartiger Reichweite ermöglicht noch bequemere
Kartenzahlungen für Restaurantgäste und Kunden von Verkaufsstellen unter
freiem Himmel. Mehrere renommierte Finanzinstitutionen sind derzeit führend
in der Implementierung der neuen Zahlungsterminals in Europa und Asien.
MagIC3 W-1 ist ein Mitglied der Gemalto-Produktfamilie MagIC3, die auf der
LinuxTM-basierten Open&Sec-Technologie; beruht. Die Produktfamilie MagIC3
setzt auf IP-Techn... (more)
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:
ALTR) today announced the first shipments of its 28 nm SoC devices, which
combine a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor system with FPGA logic on a
single device. Altera SoCs include several distinctive features that enable
developers in the wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance,
automotive and medical equipment markets to create custom SoC variants
optimized for system power, board space, performance and cost requirements.
The first devices Altera is shipping are low-power, low-cost Cyclone® V
SoCs. Altera is demonstrating these SoCs at the ARM Technology Symposium
Europe.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121212/SF28063)
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101012/SF78952LOGO)
"The number of customers who have already committed to using Altera SoCs has
ex... (more)
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/vnf254/global_server) has
announced the addition of the "Global Server Virtualization Market 2012-2016"
report to their offering.
TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Server Virtualization market to grow
at a CAGR of 31.07 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors
contributing to this market growth is the need for better productivity of
enterprise servers. The Global Server Virtualization market has also been
witnessing the reduced downtime of end-user systems. However, the need for
huge initial capital investment is reducing the adoption among SMEs which
could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.
The key vendors dominating this market space are Citrix Systems Inc.,
Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., and VMware Inc.
The other vendors mentioned in the report are Parallels Inc.... (more)
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Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung
i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?"
Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing
completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving
the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical
order.
Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not
(yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do
to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see
end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve,
December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of
each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
Tim Berner... (more)
Is advanced scheduling in Kubernetes achievable?Yes, however, how do you properly accommodate every real-life scenario that a Kubernetes user might encounter? How do you leverage advanced scheduling techniques to shape and describe each scenario in easy-to-use rules and configurations? In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Oleg Chunikhin, CTO at Kublr, answered these questions and demonstrated techniques for implementing advanced scheduling. For example, using spot instances and cost-effective resources on AWS, coupled with the ability to deliver a minimum set of functionalities that cover the majority of needs – without configuration complexity.
The use of containers by developers -- and now increasingly IT operators -- has grown from infatuation to deep and abiding love. But as with any long-term affair, the honeymoon soon leads to needing to live well together ... and maybe even getting some relationship help along the way. And so it goes with container orchestration and automation solutions, which are rapidly emerging as the means to maintain the bliss between rapid container adoption and broad container use among multiple cloud hosts. This BriefingsDirect cloud services maturity discussion focuses on new ways to gain container orchestration, to better use serverless computing models, and employ inclusive management to keep the container love alive.
As you know, enterprise IT conversation over the past year have often centered upon the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. In fact, Kubernetes has emerged as the key technology -- and even primary platform -- of cloud migrations for a wide variety of organizations.
Kubernetes is critical to forward-looking enterprises that continue to push their IT infrastructures toward maximum functionality, scalability, and flexibility.
As they do so, IT professionals are also embracing the reality of Serverless architectures, which are critical to developing and operating real-time applications and services. Serverless is particularly important as enterprises of all sizes develop and deploy Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives.
Here to help unpack insights into the new era of using containers to gain ease with multi-cloud deployments are our panelists: Matt Baldwin, Founder and CEO at StackPointCloud, based in Seattle; Nic Jackson, Developer Advocate at HashiCorp, based in San Francisco, and Reynold Harbin, Director of Product Marketing at DigitalOcean, based in New York. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Today most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall.
As with most new architectures, this dream takes significant work to become a reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost and increase in speed. Sometimes in order to reduce complexity teams compromise features or change requirements 
This month @nodexl announced that ServerlessSUMMIT & DevOpsSUMMIT own the world's top three most influential Kubernetes domains which are more influential than LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Medium, Infoworld and Microsoft combined.
NodeXL is a template for Microsoft® Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016) on Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10) that lets you enter a network edge list into a workbook, click a button, see a network graph, and get a detailed summary report, all in the familiar environment of the Excel® spreadsheet application. A collection of network maps and reports created with NodeXL ca...
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