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Ten Years Of Big Open Source
Mitchell Baker: January 22, 1998 -- the Beginning of Mozilla Anyone remember this? NETSCAPE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO MAKE NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATOR SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE FREE ON THE NET BOLD MOVE TO HARNESS CREATIVE POWER OF THOUSANDS OF INTERNET ...
Jan 22, 2008
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GPLv3 Released, Apache Rejects Compatibility Claim
The Free Software Foundation released GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3) yesterday. FSF: Version 3 of the GNU GPL strengthens this guarantee, by ensuring that users can modify the free software on their personal and household devices, and ...
Jun 30, 2007
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GPLv3 vs. Apache License 2.0: Irreconcilable Differences?
Allison Randal: In the early days of the GPLv3 revision process, compatibility with the Apache License 2.0 was given as one of many motivations for the update. At the 5th GPLv3 conference, Richard Stallman was recorded saying: GPL version 3 is design...
Apr 6, 2007
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Sun Frees Its JDK
I'm travelling today. I'm in Seattle, Washington for a few days of whole day meetings. I didn't get a chance to surf the internet until 8:30pm local time. The first thing I noticed is that I got a lot of hits on some of my old "Free Java" blog entri...
Nov 14, 2006
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Intel Contributes To Apache Harmony
Mikhail Y Loenko: With pleasure I announce the first contribution to Harmony on behalf of Intel. The archive with the contribution is uploaded to the following location: http://issues.apache...
Nov 18, 2005
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IBM Contributes To Open Source Java Project
Tim Ellison: I'm delighted to be able to make a code contribution to the Harmony project on behalf of IBM. Dalibor Topic: The fun's just starting. Harmony, as you know, is the free Java project at Apache. The IBM contribution can be found here.
Nov 8, 2005
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Seven Reasons To Go With OpenOffice.org 2.0
I still remember the early days of Star Office. It wasn't Free Software back then. It has its own "desktop," left nav tree, and file open dialog box that doesn't work quit the way you expected. But it has one thing going for it—it can open Mic...
Oct 21, 2005