Q&A: BMC's William Hurley talks up open source
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| He's as comfortable in the boardroom as on his long green skateboard
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9049259
Who will follow Funambol’s open source SaaS steps?
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| Google is another big player to watch. We all know about the company’s
| extensive use of and support for open source software.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/27/who-will-follow-funambols-open-source-saas-steps/
Related:
Funambol Is First Major Commercial OpenSource Company To Support AGPLv3
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| Funambol, the leading provider of mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by
| open source, today announced it has adopted GNU AGPLv3. This makes Funambol
| the first major commercial open source software company to adopt the license
| that was just released by the Free Software Foundation. Funambol adopted
| AGPLv3 because the company views it as a major open source license of the
| future.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,230442.shtml
AGPLv3
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| The Free Software Foundation has released the GNU Affero General Public
| License (AGPL v3.0), a license we’ve been waiting for a long time that will
| allow us to open source more code such as the jCard (our Card Management
| System) and jPTS (an ISO-8583/2003 based jPOS Transaction Switch) projects.
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http://jpos.org/blog/2007/11/21/agplv3/
Free Software Foundation Releases GNU Affero General Public License Version 3
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General
| Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3). This is a new license; it is based on
| version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPLv3), but has an
| additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a
| network to receive the source for that program. By publishing this license,
| the FSF aims to foster user and development communities around
| network-oriented free software.
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http://www.fsf.org/agplv3-pr
Sun tiptoes into GPLv3
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| Sun Microsystems will release its xVM Ops Center virtualisation management
| application under the General Public Licence version 3 (GPLv3), the company
| revealed at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203486/sun-tiptoes-gplv3
Why does Microsoft seem scared of GPLv3?
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| Microsoft is extremely keen to avoid "legal debate" over whether its recent
| partnerships with Linux firms such as Novell, Xandros, and Linspire, mean
| Redmond must assume any of the new licenses' legal obligations.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Why-does-Microsoft-seem-scared-of-GPLv3-/0,130061733,339279673,00.htm
FSF Says GPLv3 Means Microsoft Patent Protection for All
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| Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux
| Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3
| users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux
| distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=E86B6EA6-EC51-43DF-A305-9939E5829EFC
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