The situation concerning the open source projects previously maintained by Sun Microsystems has been slowly degenerating since the company’s acquisition by Oracle [ORCL], and it would be nice for a better understanding about what is still “what” after this past year of consolidation… especially when it comes to the vast array of Java-related projects. If [...]
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Java,
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Oracle,
Sun
A scant couple of days ago, Subversion (the project) formally graduated from its incubation phase, becoming a full-fledged Apache project at subversion.apache.org. It seemed like almost yesterday that it had been accepted as a candidate by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)… In fact, it was in late 2009 that the proposal to join the ASF [...]
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Apache,
ClearCase,
configuration management,
CVS,
introduction,
open source,
RCS,
SCCS,
StarTeam,
Subversion
Apparently, several people have had issues with WordPress 2.9 since its FCS release just a few days ago. In fact, this has caught on such attention that there has been mention by Jeff (at Weblog Tools Collection), Keith (also at Weblog Tools Collection), and at the WordPress development blog about a beta version of WordPress [...]
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open source,
software,
upgrade,
WordPress
Microsoft [MSFT] and Nokia are finalizing an agreement to augment Nokia (particularly Symbian/S60-based) phones and smart devices into becoming viable business-grade devices, or even components in functional corporate meshes.
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Google,
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iPod touch,
Joyent,
Microsoft,
Nokia,
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Oracle,
Palm,
RIM,
Sprint,
Sun
There are a lot of people passionate, even “religious”, about the open source licensing that they tend to prefer. There are even some people who allegedly insist on certain license types. Steadfastness? Maybe. Hypocrisy? Perhaps. Controversial? Absolutely. Matt’s recent post definitely re-opened that proverbial can o’ worms, with plenty of folks, both the heavily-published, and [...]
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open source
A lot of developers and interested parties in the FOSS community have raged back and forth over the propriety and legalities about charging money for the supposedly open source software itself, and/or distribution of said software, and/or services and/or maintenance and/or bug-fixing for the software. Mark had gotten tipped off about an upcoming book that [...]
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free,
open source,
shareware,
WordPress
Back in 2008, just before Javamancy was launched, I had agonized over whether WordPress was acceptable for use as a weblog. I had reviewed its source code in the past, and as a result, had postponed switching to it while reviewing other competing products. Eventually, the customization aspect and mindshare won me over, and we [...]
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authentication,
open source,
OpenAuth,
OpenID,
WordPress
Earlier, I had posted about Snipt.org and a WordPress plugin that “embeds” code from it. The Action, Part 2: Gaming the Service for the Fun of I.T. Of course, if somebody is allowing you to embed code from a remote location in a faithful manner, the natural next step would be to strip out [...]
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game,
multiplayer,
open source,
Snipt
The Setup: Which “Snipt” Are We Talking About? Remember when Snipt was discussed here a few days ago? To add more confusion to the snippet remote storage controversy, there’s another site (which some of you have already mentioned) called Snipt.org, which does not appear to be the same as Snipt.net. Although the two sites are [...]
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open source,
Snipt,
Snipt.net,
Snipt.org
Several people have asked about what had happened to the Brian’s Revolution 2 themes… Apparently, a few weeks after we reported on the open sourcing and public availability of the unveiled Revolution 2 themes for WordPress, there was a change of heart, apparently. All of the links that we described in detail were yanked, with [...]
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theme,
WordPress
