Tweet I’ve just published an article that explains how a PHP-based product can gain a good position in the market and be made appealing to customers by using marketing communication. The focus is on products licensed under an Open Source Continue reading
Tweet Canonical recently announced that it open sourced Launchpad, its web-based project management and collaboration platform. This news came out while we were conducting an evaluation of Open Source collaboration platforms for a client. The client’s intent is to host Continue reading
Tweet For anyone wondering, how the “Dual Licensing” business model of MySQL works, they have briefly explained it in a news posting: As second-generation open source vendors, MySQL AB, Sleepycat Software and Trolltech AS make the majority of their revenue Continue reading
Tweet Tony Stanco formulated a clear distinction between patents and copyright: Copyright provides exclusive plenary rights to the owner. Patents provide the owner only with the right to exclude others. I think the distinction was grounded in the fact that Continue reading
Tweet … asks Larry Rosen on the mailinglist of the Open Source Initiative and answers: Of course we disclaim most warranties and liability in our licenses. Why should we willingly accept potential liability when we give our software away for Continue reading
Tweet > >If Linux were BSD there would be no suit, simply because there would > >be no competition. > > I agree wholeheartedly with this point. And there wouldn’t be thousands > of volunteers if they thought they were Continue reading
Tweet The OSI mailinglist has a discussion going on how a Corba interface to a GPL application can circumvent the derived work clause. I am concerned whether a Corba interface can be used by non-free software to circumvent the freedoms Continue reading
Tweet Lawrence E. Rosen warns the Open Source community about IETF patents in the OSI discussion mailinglist: “As I understand the GPL, none of the IETF standards that include that patented technology can be implemented under the GPL because of Continue reading