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The increased use of software virtualization in embedded systems is enabling additional use of open-source operating systems (OSes) and applications. The notion of providing a virtualized interface to hardware and using software separation to contain different applications and OSes is presenting many new use cases for embedded software developers. One such new use more elegantly [...]

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Microsoft is in the process of building out a marketplace for open-source applications that could work like an equivalent to an app store for applications, services and support for open-source technology that runs on the Windows platform.
At the Microsoft MIX09 conference here, Lauren Cooney, group product manager for Web Platform [...]

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Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has put forward a compelling argument as to how Sun will monetize open-source software.
Fortunately, he may never need to, as it seems all-but-certain that IBM will acquire Sun, perhaps as early as this week, according to sources familiar with the matter.
In a nutshell, Schwartz argues that [...]

By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won’t get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft.
OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license with Microsoft drives the controversy over Big Greens [...]

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In preparation for my upcoming OSBC session, “Open-Core Licensing: The New Business Model Standard for Commercial Software,” I dug through some old presentations to try to figure out how monetization efforts have changed in commercial open-source companies.
Ultimately, revenue from open source boils down to understanding buyer types, as described [...]

It’s accepted wisdom that there is no such thing as a free lunch. However, the fact that open source software is being developed by a global community of talented engineers who then release it to companies for use free of charge is turning this principle on its head.
This software quite literally costs nothing to buy: [...]

Danese Cooper, who spent more than three years as senior director of Intel’s open-source strategies, has taken a similar job at Revolution Computing, a start-up that’s commercializing the open-source R programming technology for data analysis.
Cooper, who took on the title of open-source diva at Sun Microsystems before her stint at Intel, plans to help Revolution [...]

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The Obama campaign was not afraid to defy the rules — because it had to. The only way for Obama to succeed against two political veterans was to play a different game. Now in office, President Obama has the opportunity to take the federal government in a new direction as well.
The Obama campaign [...]

This morning our fearless leader, Larry Dignan (all blessings be unto him) offered some space at Between the Lines to Chad Perrin, a security consultant and Web developer usually found at our TechRepublic site.
Perrin’s conclusion? Open source is future proof.
During most recessions, Perrin writes, you will naturally turn to companies like Microsoft and Adobe, firms [...]

Europe now has its own version of the GPL.
It’s got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept.
The European Union Public License is an effort by EU government services to codify a Euro-centric view of copyleft, in 22 languages. (Nathan White has a giant version of this Tower [...]