Red Hat revenue up 28% in Q2. Funding for NoSQL vendors. And more.
# Red Hat reported net income of $40m in the second quarter on revenue up 28% to $281.3m.
# 10gen raised $20m in funding, while DataStax closed an $11m series B round, while also releasing its DataStax Enterprise and Community products. Additionally Neo Technology …
[Read more]Paranoid Android. Canonical and Gnome. A new OSI. And more.
Paranoid Android
If you are interested in the potential violation of the GPL by
the Android kernel you have probably already immersed yourself in
the numerous blog posts published on the topic. If not, start
with Sean Hogle’s analysis or Bradley M Kuhn’s overview of the original allegations and work
backwards from there, not forgetting a detour for the obligatory Microsoft connection. Linus
Torvalds said
claim “seems totally bogus”. In the meantime, Microsoft …
The ASF threatens to withdraw from the JCP. The demise of the Symbian Foundation. And more.
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# The Apache Software Foundation said it will terminate its relationship with the JCP if its rights are not upheld.
# The Symbian Foundation is no more. It will transition to become a licensing operation for the Symbian OS.
# Gluster raised $8.5m series B funding from Index Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.
…
[Read more]Bradley M Kuhn published an interest blog post at the weekend explaining why he believes Canonical is about to go down the open core licensing route and heavily criticising the company for doing so.
My take on the post is that it is the worst kind of Daily Mail-esque fear mongering and innuendo. Not only does Bradley lack any evidence for his claim, the evidence he presents completely undermines his argument and distracts attention from what could be a very important point about copyright assignment.
The premise? Mark Shuttleworth has admitted that he plans to follow the open core licensing strategy with Canonical.
The evidence? Mark praises the strategy Trolltech took of selling proprietary licenses.
The problem? Trolltech did not follow the open core licensing strategy. Neither did MySQL, which Bradley suggests …
[Read more]SugarCRM. Funding for EnterpriseDB and Morphlabs. Even more core. And more
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Bittersweet
# OStatic asked
whether SugarCRM has violated open source principles.
# Larry Augustin clarified SugarCRM’s approach to open source and openness.
# Savio Rodrigues advised anyone considering SugarCRM not to get hung-up on source code availability.
Funding round
# EnterpriseDB has reportedly
raised $7.5m of
a …
There’s been a fair amount of attention – both positive and negative – on dual licensing in recent weeks. A few days ago Brian Aker wrote: “The fact is, there are few, and growing fewer, opportunities to make money on dual licensing.”
It is a sweeping statement, but one that is worth further consideration, especially since, as Stephen O’Grady noted it is directly contradicted by Gartner’s prediction that: “By 2012, at least 70% of the revenue from commercial OSS will come from vendor-centric projects with dual-license business models.”
Success?
I remember reading this prediction back in December but dismissing it as …
[Read more]Google unveils the Nexus One. RMS explains his position on dual licensing. And more.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
# Google launched the Nexus One Android phone.
# Richard Stallman explained his position on selling exceptions to the GNU GPL.
# Novell’s chief technology and …
[Read more]Since the European Commission announced it was opening an in-depth investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle with a focus on MySQL there has been no shortage of opinion written about Oracle’s impending ownership of MySQL and its impact on MySQL users and commercial partners, as well as MySQL’s business model, dual licensing and the GPL.
In order to try and bring some order to the conversation, we have brought together some of the most referenced blog posts and news stories in chronological order. Part one, below, takes us from the announcement of the EC’s in-depth investigation up to the eve of the communication of the EC’s Statement of Objections. We will continue to update part two until either the acquisition or the EC’s investigation …
[Read more]The attendees were not satisfied with the first answer RMS gave to Brian, that Harish Pillay (Chief Technical Architect, Red Hat Singapore), chose to ask RMS what more he had to say, with regards to the letter he’d written. He answered quite candidly in this video, which Brian chimed in for as well.
The back channel for all this was Twitter… Don’t hesitate to follow @harishpillay, @brianaker, @piawaugh or even @webmink …
[Read more]At foss.my 2009, Brian Aker asked Richard Stallman at his keynote, about the Oracle/Sun acquisition (with a focus on MySQL), with regards to the parallel licensing approach used by MySQL. Brian was referring to:
As only the original rights holder can sell commercial licenses, no new forked version of the code will have the ability to practice the parallel licensing approach, and will not easily generate the resources to support continued development of the MySQL platform.
from Richard’s Letter to the EC opposing Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. Listen to the discussion between Brian and Richard.
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