Microsoft: “more than half your Android devices are belong to us”. And more
# Microsoft claimed that more than half of the world’s ODM industry for Android and Chrome devices is now under license to Microsoft’s patent portfolio following its agreement with Compal Electronics.
# Hadapt expanded its board of directors and confirmed its $9.5m series A funding round.
# Appcelerator entered into an agreement …
[Read more]Groklaw declares victory. Cloudera updates Hadoop distro. And more.
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# Groklaw claimed victory, will stop publishing new articles on May 16.
# Cloudera released version 3 of its Hadoop distribution.
# VoltDB released version 1.3 of its open source distributed in-memory database.
# Black Duck grew sales by 51% in Q1.
# eXo and Convertigo …
[Read more]The future of the JCP. A new Mozilla CEO. And more.
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# Mike Milinkovich explained why the Eclipse Foundation will support Oracle’s plans for Java 7, and outlined its concerns about the Java 8 JSR.
# Stephen Colebourne outlined the choices facing Java Community Process executive committee voters: pragmatism or bust, before later proposing a third option: a split in the …
[Read more]Novell’s Q1. The future of OpenSolaris. And more.
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# Novell reported Linux platform revenue of $37.5m in Q1, up 6.4%.
# Internet.com reported that Novell’s Linux business broke even as Microsoft deal revenues fade.
# As the H reported Oracle exec Dan Roberts confirmed that OpenSolaris has a future at Oracle.
# Citrix acquired Paglo, launched GoToManage service.
# StatusNet …
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# The OpenOffice.org Community announced the release of OpenOffice.org 3.2.
# An interview with Michael Tiemann on licensing and community.
# DotNetNuke raised $8m series B funding.
# Microsoft updated its Linux Integrated Components, introducing support for RHEL in Hyper-V.
# An interview with Marten Mickos on …
[Read more]Government adoption. Financial results. New funding. And more.
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Government approval
The US Department of Defense issued guidance on the adoption of open source
software, while ComputerWorld reported that the U.S Department of Defense has
open-sourced an …
When open source goes bad. Is open source a success or failure? And more.
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When open source goes bad
The H reported
on the apparent turmoil at the CentOS project, while Jay Lyman
offered the CAOS perspective. Meanwhile
Slashdot reported that Alan Cox has quit as Linux TTY
subsystem maintainer.
Success or failure?
Danny Windham, Digium CEO, …