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Apache Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee 136

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 09, 2010 @03:40PM from the I'll-resign-my-commission dept.

iammichael writes "The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee due to a long dispute over the licensing restrictions placed on the TCK (test kit validating third-party Java implementations are compatible with the specification)."

ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients 347

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @10:58AM from the well-that's-not-how-friends-play-nice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that since yesterday ICQ has blocked access to the ICQ network to alternative clients. Users of QIP, Adium, and other clients are getting a 'The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade'. No comment yet from ICQ or AOL."

20 Must-have Firefox Extensions 341

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 11, 2007 @11:25AM from the so-it-comes-to-this-then-does-it dept.

An anonymous reader noted that Computerworld is running a story on the 20 must have Firefox extensions. Several of my favorites are in there so I'm looking forward to playing with the ones I haven't heard of.

So What If Linux Infringes On Microsoft IP? 394

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 25, 2006 @07:26AM from the yeah-that's-right-wait-what dept.

Mr Men writes to mention a ZDNet blog entry by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wondering aloud if maybe, just maybe, Microsoft isn't lying about having patents that are part of Linux. "Come on, no matter how much of a Linux fan you are, you have to admit that there's at least a chance that Linux does indeed infringe on Microsoft's patents. After all, Microsoft does hold a lot of patents and while Linux is open source and we can all take a look at the source code, only Microsoft has access to most of its source code so it isn't all that difficult for it to prove — to itself at any rate — that there are IP infringements contained in Linux. After all, before IBM handed over some 500 patents to the open source community, it's pretty clear that Linux was infringing some of them. Given that, why is it so hard to believe that the same isn't going on with Microsoft?" Even then, he goes on to say, so what if they do? It's not like they're going to go after us with a 'Linux tax.' Kingsley-Hughes imagines that, for the most part, Microsoft is just going to sit on this info and use it to form more and more profitable deals. Better than the alternative, I guess.

You Call This Agile? 168

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 20, 2006 @02:25PM from the the-perils-of-development dept.

JoelonSoftware's most recent piece is about some of the fallacies in "Agile" software and some of the issues within it. We use Agile in some parts of the company, and have had success with that -- that said, there's always the peril that happens when development and other parts of the company have...miscommunication, which sounds like the problem described in Joel's piece.

Eben Moglen To Scrutinize Novell-Microsoft Deal 102

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday November 09, 2006 @08:44PM from the hard-looks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Novell is providing Eben Moglen's Software Freedom Law Center with confidential access to the legal terms of the Novell-Microsoft partnership, allowing to organization to verify if the deal is compatible with the GPL2 and GPL3 licenses. Moglen in the past has alleged that the patent license between the two companies could be in violation with section 7 of the GPL. Novell on Tuesday published a document on its website, explaining that they circumvented the GPL provisions by providing a patent license to the end user rather than between the two companies."

Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader 688

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 30, 2006 @03:50PM from the also-crash-less dept.

OSS_ilation writes "They say beauty is only skin deep, but when it comes to Linux and the free software movement, people like Mark Shuttleworth think looks have an important part to play. On his blog and an article on SearchOpenSource.com, Shuttleworth and a slew of open source end users say that the look and feel of open source is also a matter of wider acceptance among enterprise players who are used to Windows, yet crave Mac OS X and the functionality of Linux. 'If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful,' Shuttleworth said. "We have to make it gorgeous. We have to make it easy on the eye. We have to make it take your friend's breath away.' With the early success of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Shuttleworth and company may be onto something."

Comment Jerry Missed the Point (Score 2) 431

by tjoneslo on Wednesday November 10, 1999 @08:37AM (#1545303) Attached to: Everything Microsoft

Jerry spends a great deal of time (and space) ranting about how the Finding of Fact got the history of the failure Apple and IBM OS/2 wrong. The problem that Jerry missed is that Microsoft had every opportunity to presesent these facts to the judge. It's very apparent from reading the ongoing stories about the trial the Microsoft legal team shot themselves in the foot repeatedly, and ruined their credibility with the judge.
If the failure of the Finding of Fact is it's inaccuracy, the failure is of Microsoft failing to have presented the proper fact to the judge and not make themselves look foolish by being arrogant.

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