Home Automation at Open Tech 2008
Blog Ticket reservations now open - Please Redistribute Freely * Steven Goodwin will be presenting an introductory session in the world of homebrew home automation at OpenTech on July 5th in London. Standard blurb follows:
[June 20, 2008, 12:03]
Free, you say?
Blog It says as much in the Selling Free Software article on the GNU web site: "Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. I'm confused aobut a trend in the Free Software world: subscription fees...
[October 16, 2009, 16:07]
Microsoft bows to EU antitrust ruling
Blog Microsoft will now do so, with licensing terms that allow every recipient of the resulting software to copy, modify and redistribute it in accordance with the open source business model. Microsoft has agreed to comply with a 2004 EU court ruling on...
[October 22, 2007, 14:35]
No need to panic over MySQL
Blog No matter what Oracle chooses to do as the copyright holder in the source of MySQL, anyone who already has a copy is free to redistribute their copy, and make modifications. MySQL users are nervous about Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems...
[September 16, 2009, 17:37]
Google Friend Connect already unravelling?
Blog Just as we’ve been forced to do for other applications that redistribute data in a way users might not expect or understand, we’ve had to suspend Friend Connect’s access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance.
[May 16, 2008, 10:48]
Genivi shows why open source is good for business
Blog Apparently the licence for the Microsoft Automotive platform does allow licensees access to its source code and the ability to make changes, but I'll guess that it doesn't include the ability to redistribute those changes to third parties (such as...
[March 6, 2009, 11:53]
FAT replacement licensing must be pragmatic
Blog A liberal licensing scheme for the new filesystem will mean a greater take-up among device manufacturers, and those of us who want to use free software will still be able to use the filesystem, modify its code and redistribute under the terms we...
[April 2, 2009, 18:38]
