Geeknet sells off Ohloh.net to Black Duck; Big names rally to defend Microsoft

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	Desperation or direction? Geeknet sells off Ohloh.net to Black Duck Joe Brockmeier: Last May SourceForge acquired Ohloh. Since then, it's had an executive shakeup, two rounds of layoffs, changed its name, and is now selling off Ohloh to Black Duck after doing very little with the site in the interim. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Intel Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem Learn how Intel's work across the industry ecosystem is making it a trusted advisor to the Open Source community Click to continue In this Issue Big news about the big duck in the open source pond Big names rally to defend Microsoft including the EFF and Apache Governments become more open Developers Are Taking Over the World! Red Hat urges Patent Office to deny most software patents MindTouch Makes Technical Documentation A Snap Why Xmarks should go open source How to Talk to Your Lawyer about Open Source Software Next Generation of Apps: Cloud Computing, Open Source Ubuntu 10.10 Approaches With 'Meerkat' Release Candidate Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news WHITE PAPER: CA Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More Big news about the big duck in the open source pond Phil Odence: Here's some of the inside scoop about our impressions of Ohloh and why we at Black Duck think this is all a good thing. Read More Big names rally to defend Microsoft including the EFF and Apache Alan Shimel: How often does the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Apache Foundation join such strange bedfellows as Apple, Google, Intel and Dell in (get this) support of Microsoft. Read More Governments become more open Stephen Spector The White House is not just using Drupal as their platform for whitehouse.gov, but they are also contributing back to the community. Should governments be doing more of this sort of thing? Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent Synchronization in Microwave Networks Convergence towards packet-transport presents multiple challenges- carry existing TDM traffic while scaling to handle higher capacities and new IP services. The Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR provides a unique solution enabling transformation to all-IP and supporting a mix of synchronization solutions. Read Now Developers Are Taking Over the World! Eric Gries: I once wrote about Apple's success at penetrating the corporate world by ignoring the generic "enterprise market" in favor of selling to individual users. Read More Red Hat urges Patent Office to deny most software patents Julie Bort: Red Hat's legal team has found a silver lining in the Supreme Court's Bilski decision, and wants the USPTO to use it. Read More MindTouch Makes Technical Documentation A Snap Alan Shimel: MindTouch is a great example of how to do open core right. Read More WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Secure, automatic protection for all your server data Your data is valuable—too valuable to risk losing through unreliable backup methods. Iron Mountain's LiveVault offers secure, easy, automated online backup for servers throughout your organization. Watch this webcast to learn how to eliminate the risks of tape-based backup while gaining scalability and fast, reliable recovery. View now Why Xmarks should go open source Joe Brockmeier: After four years of syncing bookmarks and other browser settings, Xmarks will be shutting its virtual doors at the end of the year. The company should think about releasing its code under an open source license. Read More How to Talk to Your Lawyer about Open Source Software Stephen Walli: If you're a developer that wants to use free and open source software then sooner or later you're going to need to talk to a lawyer. Someone came up with the (now shortsighted) idea of applying copyright law to software. Read More Next Generation of Apps: Cloud Computing, Open Source Open source apps combined with cloud infrastructure do more than free enterprises from the speed and cost limitations of traditional packaged software. Open source combined with public IaaS and SaaS can power a new generation of applications, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Read More Ubuntu 10.10 Approaches With 'Meerkat' Release Candidate Ubuntu 10.10, or "Maverick Meerkat," is just one step away from its final version, thanks to the release on Thursday of the Linux software's official Release Candidate. Read More Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More
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