ZDNet: Blankenhorn Out, Vaughn-Nichols In
Posted by Jason in Linux, Open Source on December 9, 2010
Just something I ran across today while reading up on the Matt Asay leaving Canonical thing. Apparently, it’s Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols & Paula Rooney over at ZDNet’s “Linux and Open Source” blog now, and Dana Blankenhorn has been fired. (Please, please read that last link where Mr. Blankenhorn laughably asserts he is “right most of the time”. [...]
Matt Asay Leaves Canonical
Wow – with less than a year at it, Matt Asay announced he is leaving Canonical. No biggie, actually Mr. Asay’s departure isn’t really a big deal for Canonical or Ubuntu. For one thing, Mr. Asay was a poor choice for Canonical – assuming Canonical wanted to take a pro-Free Software position and not another sure to [...]
Patents and Change: More on Novell-Attachmate
Posted by Jason in Novell, Patent System on December 1, 2010
More brilliant, unique and rainbow-creating analysis on the Novell-Attachmate deal. Answering Questions First, you may want to read my stunningly well-written post “What Patents is Novell Selling?” Make sure you have a pencil in both hands. The main conclusion I draw patent-wise is that we can easily find Novell has a little over 800 patents, and we [...]
What Patents is Novell Selling?
Posted by Jason in Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on November 26, 2010
Happy Turkey Day! According to my (on-going and slip-shod) research, here’s some speculation on exactly what patents Novell is selling to Microsoft. What patents are for sell? Only a number (882) is given in the SEC filing, so we don’t know for sure. But, we can look at patents assigned to (and applied for by) [...]
Novell’s Final Betrayal: 800+ Patents to Microsoft
Today Novell announced its final betrayal of Linux and the Free and Open Source Community: Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected [...]
Mono Criticism == Uninformed Hatred?
Posted by Jason in Novell, Open Source on November 8, 2010
Guy Van Sanden has a short post, “Get the facts on mono” where he makes a few points on mono: But a lot of time has past since the original discussions and in that time, some things became very clear. Microsoft does hold patents on the .NET technology that mono is based on They made [...]
Anti-FSF Sentiment: Truth Not Relevant
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux on November 4, 2010
I find the current VLC in the App Store discussion quite interesting on a number of different fronts, but there is a specific one I’d like to point out here for the Gentle Reader’s edification: Anti-FSF People Don’t Care About The Truth Bold claim? Not really, because there are 2 ways we can come to this [...]
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