Legal center established for open-source projects, developers

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New Legal Center for Open Source
Projects

New Legal Center for Open Source
Projects 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
Slashdot Feb 1 2005 5:43PM GMT

OSDL Helps Fund New Open-Source Legal
Center

OSDL Helps Fund New Open-Source Legal
Center 02/01/2005 08:56 PM
The new Software Freedom Law Center will help open-source developers fight legal disputes over intellectual property and patent rights.

Center Offers Open Source License
Defense, Legal Services

Center Offers Open Source License
Defense, Legal Services 02/01/2005 08:57 PM
The new Software Freedom Law Center—seeded by funding from the Open Source Development Labs$#151;will offer asset stewardship, licensing, license defense and litigation support, legal support, and lawyer training.

Two open source projects for EAI

Two open source projects for EAI 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
The open source projects Proteus and Babeldoc both announced new releases. Although they look very different (one is a "framework", the other is a "system"), both are written in Java, support XML, EJBs and JDBC databases and do not hide the fact that EAI is their vocation.

New IRC Network For Open Source Projects

New IRC Network For Open Source Projects 02/05/2005 09:36 PM
Slashdot Feb 5 2005 10:56PM GMT

Why most open source projects fail

Why most open source projects fail 06/22/2004 06:01 AM

Some people have questioned my motives when I make the following statement. Commercially supported software products normally out development of open-source projects. There are several reasons for my saying this and I will lay them out.

1. Dedicated Team of Paid Programmers lead by a lead developers.
2. Product vision for development.
3. Financially driven to make sure product succeeds.

The list goes on. Some of you are starch advocates of open-source and I support open source but I have gotten burned more than once on open source projects. Typically I have found that software projects that start as open source have a higher success rate than those products that start out as commercial and move later to open source.

I have found that Far too many Open Source projects have died because while the wonderful buzzwords "free and open" get used, the amount of talent actually working on many projects ends up being less than zero. I think most people have huge expectations in expecting Open Source to be a panacea for all software packages. Sadly usually it isn't.

Effective PR for open source projects

Effective PR for open source projects 04/22/2004 10:47 AM
This Saturday we're holding an IRC discussion with OSDN editor in chief Robin 'Roblimo' Miller about how to get the media spotlight to shine on your project. Robin recently wrote a NewsForge article article headlined Getting good PR for your open source project, and he's the author of The Online Rules of Successful Companies, so he's as strong an expert in this area as you're likely to find. The (moderated) chat will be at 2000 UTC (4 p.m. EDT, 1 p.m. PDT) on IRC server events.oftc.net, #promo, Saturday, April 24, 2004.

IRC log: How open source projects can
improve their PR

IRC log: How open source projects can
improve their PR 04/26/2004 10:08 AM
Saturday, NewsForge editor Robin "Roblimo" Miller hosted an IRC chat aimed at helping open source projects do better and more effective PR. This is the (lightly edited) log of that chat.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal, and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open Source.

Three top tips for surviving open source
projects

Three top tips for surviving open source
projects 01/24/2003 02:11 AM
CNET Jan 24 2003 1:24AM ET

Are small Open Source projects
sustainable?

Are small Open Source projects
sustainable? 07/14/2002 11:17 AM
PHPTriad Postmortem

I built this thing because I wanted it. I shared it with the world because I felt it was right. I'm shutting it down because I'm sick of it and no longer enjoy it.

If the non-tangible benefits were still there, I might still be running the project, in spite of no cashflow. After all, I understood free software before starting it and never really expected to build a successful business off of it. I did, however, kind of hope I might at least cover server costs. That didn't happen. -- J Wynia

"tri" I sympathize with Mr Wynia. Without some sort of external need (eg. to support my company's PHP products) and some personal motivation, maintaining an Open Source project like PHPTriad or ADOdb for years and years is hard work - John.

"zeldman.hungry"

African open source projects gather
steam

African open source projects gather
steam 04/30/2004 05:38 PM
ACCRA - South African developers have made headway on a number of open-source projects, including an upgrade to a new version of Linux.

Packt Pays Royalties to Open Source
Projects

Packt Pays Royalties to Open Source
Projects 04/06/2005 12:05 PM

Open Source Receives Royalties Boost: This is an awfully cool thing. Most of Packt's books are on open-source stuff, and a lot of them are on projects for which no other books have been written. Good to see them support the projects which provide them with subjects for their books.

[...] Packt Publishing is paying royalties from each book they sell to the open source project it is written on.

The company has published on, and subsequently given to, a number of open source projects including eZ publish, Plone and phpMyAdmin. Marc Delisle from the phpMyAdmin project explains that amongst other things their support has "helped the team to be present at various conferences in order to promote phpMyAdmin."

Nicely done, chaps. Bravo.

VA, Black Duck Team on Open Source
Projects

VA, Black Duck Team on Open Source
Projects 06/17/2005 03:18 PM
Integrated toolkit is designed to manage software licenses throughout a company's development lifecycle.

CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects.

CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects. 05/24/2004 11:37 PM
eWeek: CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing for Content, Database Projects. This article has some dangerous flaws. Proprietary/open source dual-licensing can be done with the GPL; just look at MySQL. (I see the Plone Foundation themselves are fighting this bad reporting.) Also, Apache is not dual-licensed and IBM could have used it just as easily if it wasn't owned by the ASF, because the Apache License is so permissive. (Also, companies that create gratuitous new open source licenses are not on the Cluetrain, but at least it's not dangerous.)

CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects

CA Moves with New Open-Source Licensing
for Content, Database Projects 05/24/2004 05:09 PM
Computer Associates strays away from the GPL for its open-source Plone content management application as well as its Ingres Enterprise Relational Database, released Monday to the community.

Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse

Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse 04/19/2005 08:38 AM
A tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant and Oracle.

entry by Steven Garrity about interface
improvements in open source projects

entry by Steven Garrity about interface
improvements in open source projects 04/28/2004 07:36 AM
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Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse (InfoWorld)

Two open source object-relational
projects afoot in Eclipse (InfoWorld) 04/19/2005 08:45 AM
InfoWorld - A tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant and Oracle.

Mozilla Looking to Forge Alliances with
GNOME and Other Open Source Projects to
Combat Longhorn

Mozilla Looking to Forge Alliances with
GNOME and Other Open Source Projects to
Combat Longhorn 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

eBay Turns to Open-Source Developers

eBay Turns to Open-Source Developers 06/22/2005 02:16 AM
The online marketplace targets open-source developers with a source code collaboration program for creating tools tied to eBay.

Google courts open-source developers

Google courts open-source developers 03/19/2005 02:41 AM

Microsoft encourages open source
developers

Microsoft encourages open source
developers 04/19/2005 09:56 AM
I had my annual meeting with Microsoft's Jason Matusow last week. Our second "annual" meeting, to be precise. He's director of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative and I introduced you all to him last summer (see "A free lunch with Microsoft", http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nt/2004/0802nt1.html) when we met at the Open Source Conference. This time around, the venue was the Open Source Business Conference, held at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel.

Is Open Source An Advantage For Game
Developers?

Is Open Source An Advantage For Game
Developers? 09/01/2004 09:38 AM

Sun offloads four mostly useless Java
projects to the open source community
including Looking Glass and Java3D.

Sun offloads four mostly useless Java
projects to the open source community
including Looking Glass and Java3D. 06/28/2004 07:54 PM
Sun offloads four mostly useless Java projects to the open source community including Looking Glass and Java3D. (See lip service yesterday.)

LinuxWorld: Big Changes Coming from
Open-Source Licensing, Developers

LinuxWorld: Big Changes Coming from
Open-Source Licensing, Developers 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
eWeek May 26 2005 5:29PM GMT

Open-Source Developers: Microsoft
Licensing Must Be GPL-Compatible

Open-Source Developers: Microsoft
Licensing Must Be GPL-Compatible 03/19/2005 02:53 AM
They say the European Commission will have to demand substantial changes to Microsoft's protocol-licensing plan if it wants to bring real competition back to the workgroup server market.

Open-Source Developers Close In on
Proprietary Vendors

Open-Source Developers Close In on
Proprietary Vendors 04/05/2005 10:21 PM
Open-source vendors of enterprise application software will have competitive advantages over established proprietary license vendors, especially in the SMB field, says Larry Augustin, CEO of Medsphere Systems, during the Open Source Business Conference.

Apache, open-source developers want
Sender ID scrapped

Apache, open-source developers want
Sender ID scrapped 09/03/2004 12:59 AM
ZDNet Australia Sep 3 2004 5:03AM GMT

Protecting Against Open Source Legal
Risks

Protecting Against Open Source Legal
Risks 01/08/2004 08:27 PM

Open Source As Legal Time Bomb

Open Source As Legal Time Bomb 03/25/2005 09:35 PM

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard 09/13/2004 11:49 PM
The Free Standards Group's updated standard will improve Linux code portability and interoperability, developers say, and reduce the worry of platform fragmentation.

Open-source spat triggers legal threat

Open-source spat triggers legal threat 09/17/2004 06:17 PM
Company says it paid for the code that was contributed, against contract, to free Mambo publishing software.

What proprietary software can teach open
source developers about winning over new
users

What proprietary software can teach open
source developers about winning over new
users 04/12/2005 08:04 AM
Being the best doesn't always mean being the most popular. We all know of many inferior products that are immensely, sometimes perplexingly, popular. However, this does not mean that one must forsake the pursuit of excellence when pursuing a broad market share. As proponents of open source software, it should not be beneath us to pursue popularity or to look to proprietary developers as examples. And by following the right examples, we can help spread the usage of open source software without sacrificing the goal of software excellence.

Open Source Resource Center

Open Source Resource Center 05/09/2004 07:18 AM
Open Source Resource Center
http://www.pseb.org.pk/pr ojects/osrc/

The Open Source Resource Center is a first such forum in Pakistan created by Pakistan Software Export Board (G) Ltd. at Islamabad. The Resource Center will bring together wide range of expertise related to Open Source Technologies and Resources at one place. The IT companies can access, share, and contribute the knowledge particular to the development and transformation of IT products on Open Source Technologies. The Resource Center brings together established technology vendors, startups, open source community members and enterprise IT users/customers to jointly explore new opportunities for OSS deployment and how to capitalize on them.

Open-source screening company hires
legal muscle

Open-source screening company hires
legal muscle 06/18/2004 12:55 PM
Black Duck Software has tapped an IP specialist to advise companies about the use of open-source and proprietary software.

The two-edged sword: Legal computer
forensics and open source

The two-edged sword: Legal computer
forensics and open source 04/11/2005 05:34 PM
Ryan Purita of Totally Connected Security is one of the leading computer forensic experts in private practice in Canada. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, holding one of the most advanced security qualifications in the world. Working for both the prosecution and the defence in legal cases, Purita has also taught computer security to law enforcement agencies, probation officers and social workers, and is currently developing programs for the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Much of his daily work is an extension of a system administrator's activities. A good part of it involves the advanced use of open source tools, including several standard system tools. His work methods offer fresh perspectives on security, privacy issues and the relative merits of Windows and GNU/Linux -- to say nothing of a niche industry where open source is more than holding its own.

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard (Ziff Davis)

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard (Ziff Davis) 09/14/2004 01:34 AM
Ziff Davis - The Free Standards Group's updated standard will improve Linux code portability and interoperability, developers say, and reduce the worry of platform fragmentation.

OpenMC : Open Source Multimedia Center

OpenMC : Open Source Multimedia Center 12/10/2003 04:32 AM
First release
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