Appcelerator introduces new open source RIA platform. Corratech launches open source integration project. Study looks at Asterisk usage in the enterprise. (and more)

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Although it is heartening to see that the Software Freedom Law Center and Monsoon Multimedia have reached a settlement regarding claims that Monsoon had breached the GNU GPL, one can’t help the feeling that the case once again represents a missed opportunity to establish a legal precedent.
The complaint stated that Monsoon had failed to supply […]

GPL lawsuit against Monsoon Multimedia dropped. Curl opens RIA offering. Covalent offers support for ActiveMQ. (and more)

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Red Hat and GroundWork Open Source announced an interesting expansion of their partnership today that sees Red Hat offering 24×7 telephone premium support for GroundWork products, as well as the sale of GroundWork training […]

This is the Halloween edition of the CAOS Theory blog, so please, if you scare easy, consider reading this another time or place where you feel more comfortable. There are some scary things lurking out there for Linux and open source software. Boo! Patents. Eeeeeek! Microsoft. Yikes! Forking. Nooooooo! Mobs of shareholders protesting the opening […]

Openbravo acquires Librepos. FiveRuns obtains new funding. Actuate announces quarterly earnings. (and more)

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As was shown last week the rise of executive bloggers has given web users unprecedented insight into the minds of executives and into the thinking behind company strategy. This is particularly true in the open source world, where communicating with your partners, customers and suppliers in an open way is part and parcel of the […]

It seems we’ve arrived upon Microsoft open source. In the last couple of years, whenever there was discussion of Microsoft’s open source projects and efforts such as CodePlex or Port25, there was typically the standard open source response: it’s not OSI-approved; it’s not real open source. Now, with OSI approval of two Microsoft licenses, the […]

When Network Appliance announced its patent infringement charges against Sun in September the company went out of its way to try and ensure that it was not seen as the next SCO Group.
Founder and EVP Dave Hitz took to his blog to explain the background and attempt to reassure the the open source ZFS community […]

For a company that professes to provide services and advice on risk mitigation based on understanding the implications of open source licenses and IP governance, you would think Palamida might have been able to find a way of protecting its GPLv3 Resource Site before rival Black Duck was able to ‘plagiarize‘ most of it. Just […]

Trolltech announces quarterly results. Pentaho expands European presence. SCO finds a buyer. (and more)

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A few weeks ago I mentioned the amount of merger and acquisition activity in the open source sector in recent years and that it might worth trying to build a table of open source M&A deals.
As it happened Raven was thinking along the same lines and by delving into the CAOS Theory archives and The […]

Misys to open source healthcare software. SiteScape releases open source collaboration suite. Novell appoints president for North America. (and more)

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Collaborative Software Initiative — the Linux-style, pooled resources software development and support company headed by former OSDL chief Stuart Cohen — says that its story and service based on collaboration among competitors is selling. What does CSI do? No, it doesn’t investigate open source crime scenes. Instead, similar to OSDL and now the Linux Foundation, […]

Perhaps I was a little quick to congratulate Neelie Kroes on a job well done forcing Microsoft to extend its interoperability protocols to open source software vendors and developers. It now appears that the terms of the agreement mean that it is incompatible with the GPL.
“I told Microsoft that it had to make interoperability information […]

Turbolinux signs deal with Microsoft. Levanta obtains funding. AlterPoint celebrates record quarter. (and more)

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Mitchell Baker has posted the details on Mozilla’s financial performance for 2006 and it is more good news. Revenue was up around 26% to $66.8m, while usage is also on the up.
Expenses increased from $8.8m last time out to $19.8m, although revenue growth outstripped expenses growth, and the majority of that went on people and […]

Citrix completes acquisition of XenSource. IBM issues academic grants for software development collaboration efforts. OLPC earns top Energy Star rating. (and more)

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I promise I’ll write about something other than Microsoft soon, but it does keep doing interesting open source-related things. This time, it has backed down and agreed to comply with its obligations following the European Commission’s 2004 antitrust decision, including sharing interoperability information with open source developers.
As European commissioner for competition, Neelie, Kroes, told the […]

Two big open source stories from the UK: not only is retailing behemoth Tesco selling PCs bundled with the Ubuntu operating system but Becta, the government agency responsible for technology in the education system, has reported Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading for alleged anti-competitive practices.
The latter is an interesting twist in the long-running […]