Funambol acquires Zapatec. Open source gains Closure. And more.
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[Read more]Reaction to EC’s Oracle-Sun delay. OIN to acquire ex-Microsoft patents. And more.
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Reaction to EC’s Oracle-Sun delay
Despite widespread criticism of the European Commission’s
decision to open a formal investigation into Oracle’s proposed
acquisition of Sun, Glyn Moody maintained that the EC deserves credit for
making open source a central part of its analysis. Meanwhile
Monty Program (by way of Steven J Vaughan Nicholls) explained why the EU
should block Oracle/Sun, Roberto Galoppini reported …
Intuit launches open source project. SFLC on Microsoft GPL violation accusations.
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# Intuit launched open source projects and community to develop apps based on its Intuit Partner Platform, while Savio Rodrigues declared Intuit’s open source play is all business.
# SFLC’s Bradley Kuhn told SDTimes Microsoft was in violation of the GPL.
# MySQL and Memcached-based appliance vendor Schooner Info Tech has raised $20m in Series B funding.
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