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Copyrights, APIs, and Oracle vs Google

May 8th, 2012 · No Comments

We still don’t know what will happen with Oracle’s accusations that Google violated its patents. Given that Oracle itself doesn’t value the two remaining patents as being worth much, that decision won’t matter much. No, the real question is what will U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup will do with notion that Java’s application programming [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Google · Infrastructure · Java · Legal · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Oracle · SmartPhone · Tablet

The muddled mess of the Oracle vs. Google trial

May 7th, 2012 · Comments Off

On the surface, it may look like Oracle won the first round of its intellectual property (IP) lawsuit with Google. Look again. No one’s won anything and that includes Oracle. While we wait to see what the jury has to say about the two remaining patents, let’s take a closer look at what the jury [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Google · Infrastructure · Java · Legal · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Oracle · SmartPhone · Tablet

Oracle vs. Google: Dead lawsuit walking

April 30th, 2012 · Comments Off

The Oracle vs. Google lawsuit is ending its first phase. On April 30th, Oracle and Google will make their closing arguments. Then, within a week or two, we should get a verdict from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, and… it will all begin again when Oracle appeals its inevitable defeat. Oh, it’s [...]

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Tags: Business · Development · Google · Infrastructure · Java · Legal · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Oracle · SmartPhone · Tablet

OpenStack vs. CloudStack: The beginning of the open-source cloud wars

April 12th, 2012 · Comments Off

The open-source cloud conflict got started in earnest last week when Citrix, formerly an OpenStack cloud supporter, announced that it was reviving its own CloudStack cloud under the Apache Foundation. Today, OpenStack finally announced that its Foundation was really launching with industry heavy-weights AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSE as Platinum [...]

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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Development · Infrastructure · Open Source

Shuttleworth defends Ubuntu’s Linux contributions

April 4th, 2012 · Comments Off

Lots of companies, even Microsoft, contribute to the Linux kernel. When you look at the top 20 list of who’s been contributing to Linux’s heart, you’ll find many familiar Linux names such as Novell (now SUSE), Red Hat, and The Linux Foundation. Who you won’t find is Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company. Some people wonder [...]

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Tags: Business · Canonical · Desktop · Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Server