Open Source

Firefox 3 expected to ship June 17

Paula Rooney: Finally, we have a date for the release of Firefox 3. “After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we?re proud to announce that we?re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th,” according to a statement posted on the Mozilla.org site Wednesday. As part [...]

Thu Jun 12 00:03:07 PDT 2008


iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back door

Dana Blankenhorn: With the first Apple iPhone open source developers were like burglars breaking windows, forcing their software onto the device. Thanks to the Apple iPhone SDK they're more like beggars now. Knock on the back door politely and you might get a beer.

Wed Jun 11 11:06:27 PDT 2008


Embedded market keeping SFLC busy as in BusyBox

Dana Blankenhorn: As in the previous suits, the defendants ignored attempts by the SFLC to settle the problems privately. Previous suits settled soon after being filed.

Wed Jun 11 09:05:50 PDT 2008


What value in the Red Hat patent guarantee?

Dana Blankenhorn: Red Hat still faces a lawsuit brought by IP Innovation, which Linux Watch has called a patent troll, and Microsoft is still sitting at the table, fingering its ginormous stack of chips and smiling its Mona Lisa smile.

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