In the News
Sys-Con Media reports, "CorraTech has started an open source project called OpenSuite under the new GPL 3 license dedicated to the integration of open source applications. It describes it as the 'glue required to make independently developed open source applications act as though they were designed to operate as an integrated suite.'"
The San Diego Union Tribune reports, "Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it had withdrawn the two last challenges to an EU antitrust order – a move that shuts the book on its past legal fights and lets it focus on avoiding future trouble with European regulators."
From Channel Web Network: "The Eclipse Foundation released the first version of its Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) today, launching a hotly anticipated, open-source toolkit for building rich Internet applications."
ECommerceTimes shares, "A survey conducted by Evans Data shows that open source developers are not adopting the third version of the GNU General Public License as quickly as some may have hoped. Those who remain reluctant to incorporate GPL v3 cited reasons ranging from questions of its enforceability in court to disagreements with some of its new components."
From WhatPC?, "The Mozilla Foundation has posted a 21 per cent rise in revenues over 2006, increasing its earnings to $66.8m."
Part 2
Computer World Singapore posts, "The most influential factor for deploying open source technology is better protection against security breaches, according to an IDC survey of open source adoption plans and challenges in Australia, Korea, India, and China."
PRNewswire releases, "Zimbra, a Yahoo! company, the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, today announced that more than 200 educational institutions have chosen the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) in the past year. Zimbra now has more than 600,000 mailboxes at academic institutions in more than 15 countries.."
Information Week reports, "The sheer number of changes coming every two to three months from Linus Torvalds' "code tree" is a sign of accelerating kernel development. The process so far has produced undeniably high-quality, reliable code...But make no mistake: Torvalds is pushing open source development tactics to new extremes. As the kernel grows in size and complexity, the rapid-fire iterations are straining the capacity of the community of volunteers who test and debug them."
From the Blogosphere
Blue-GNU shares, Richard Stallman, "highlight(ed) the special connection between Free Software and educational institutions. For those who recall teachers admonishing students to bring enough cookies to share with the class, Stallman similarly admonished educational institutions: "So every school should bring only Free Software to class, and set an example with its software of the practice of disseminating human knowledge while building a strong, capable, independent and free society. And encouraging the spirit of good will, of helping other people."
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