Posts tagged Opensource
Microsoft and Amazon announce open-source patent agreement, trinkets in exchange for air kisses
Feb 23rd
Mention “Microsoft” and “open-source” in the same breath and you’re guaranteed to create a suspicion interrupt within the Linux community. Toss in “patent agreement” and out come the irate spokesmen. So imagine the response to the announcement that Microsoft and Amazon have reached a cross-patent agreement that gives Amazon the right to use open-source software in its Kindle in exchange for an undisclosed tithe to Redmond. Microsoft also gains rights to Amazon’s patent portfolio.
The move prompted Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, to claim that Microsoft appears to be trying to, “create uncertainty around Linux.” Mind you, this isn’t just tin-foil worry from the wire colander collective, Microsoft claims that free and open-source software . A big enough stick to coax a number of companies — like , , , Apple, and HP — into striking agreements with Microsoft or risk litigation as was the case . Agreements that Canonical’s Mark Shuttelworth called, “,” or “” if you prefer Sun Microsystems’ take.
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Pandora open-source handheld is go
Feb 9th
For quite a while now, I’ve been following the progress of the , an open-source handheld for It’s hard to stay excited, though, when there’s the constant threat of the thing ceasing to exist. That seemed to be a risk for a while, but now we’re being told that all the hurdles are jumped and the thing . Just thought you should know.
What are you waiting for? before the whole first run gets snapped up!
