March 7, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open Source Zone grinds away at patent trolls
Patent trolls, aka Patent Assertion Entities (PAE)s, have plagued open-source software for ages. Over the years though, other groups have risen up to keep them from stealing from the companies and organizations that actually use patents’ intellectual property (IP). One … Continue reading
January 26, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Attempt to shake down Linux users for Netfilter code use resolved
Once upon a time in the 2000s and 2010s, Patrick McHardy was the chair of Linux’s Netfilter core development team. Netfilter is a Linux kernel utility that handles various network functions, such as facilitating Network Address Translation (NAT) and Linux’s IPTables firewall. All was fine. … Continue reading
January 18, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Open Invention Network expands Linux patent protection
Today, everyone — yes, even Microsoft — use Linux and open-source. It’s been years since Linux was under attack by SCO for imaginary copyright violations, and then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed that Linux violated over 200 of Microsoft’s patents. So over 15-years ago, … Continue reading
January 10, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on FTC Says Fix Log4j Security Vulnerability or Face Its Wrath
It’s not like the four — count ’em, four — Log4j security vulnerabilities aren’t more than just trouble in and of themselves. Just check in with the Belgian defense ministry to see what they have to say about it. Now, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission … Continue reading
November 8, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Last of original SCO v IBM Linux lawsuit settled
Well, that took long enough! But, what’s this? The lawsuit still lingers on in one last case from the company that bought SCO’s Unix operating systems. While at the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Napa, California, I was bemused to find that … Continue reading
January 20, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Elastic changes open-source license to monetize cloud-service use
Elastic is tackling Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) with its new license change. When Elastic, makers of the open-source search and analytic engine Elasticsearch and its companion data visualization dashboard Kibana, announced it was moving both programs’ source code from the Apache 2.0-license to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and … Continue reading