We were pretty pleased with our recently published Control and Community report on open source-related business strategies, but then we are biased. Fortunately some people have been good enough share their thoughts on the report, so you don’t have to take our word for it. Here’s some links to the reaction, along with a few [...]

What Android is. Novell retains UNIX copyrights. And more.

Gather the pitchforks and light the torches. Hordes of marketing men are gathering, intent on invading the free and open source software village armed with copyright assignment policies and turning everyone into mindless corporate contributors. As Michael Meeks (via LWN.net) has warned there is “‘a sustained marketing drive coming’ to push the copyright-assignment agenda” As [...]

There is no shortage of implications and questions from the Novell sale to Attachmate, which includes a side-deal for unknown IP assets from Novell purchased by Microsoft-backed participants. Bottom line, it appears as though Attachmate has acquired the SUSE Linux technology and business, based on the fact it announced plans to split SUSE from Novell, [...]

Novell is finally acquired. But what is Microsoft’s role? And more.

Mozilla releases financial results. Mylyn integrates with Visual Studio. And more.

Devops — the pushing together of enterprise application development and the IT operations, mainly by cloud computing, collaboration and automation — continues to come up in conversations with large enterprise IT vendors and customers. When we began covering devops, we saw it focused mainly on the software developers and IT administrators who were, themselves, devops, [...]

Oracle responds to Apache. AMD joins MeeGo. And More.

Topics for this podcast: *Our latest CAOS Special Report – Control and Community *Red Hat releases RHEL 6 *Symbian and Oracle highlight community challenges *The latest on government adoption of OSS from GOSCON *Open core issue continues, now with Linux and evil twins iTunes or direct download (31:02, 8.5MB)

Talend raises $34m, acquires Sopera. Red Hat releases RHEL 6. And more.

The Apache Software Foundation’s latest statement on the Java Community Process highlights continued dissatisfaction and dissent from Oracle’s stewardship and involvement in open source software. This comes after some ups and downs for Oracle and its oversight of Java and other open source software that was previously under the auspices of Sun Microsystems. Oracle started [...]

Or, how we evaluate a company’s open source-related business strategy. Godwin’s law states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches”. An online discussion about open source-related business strategies is no exception. However, long before the Nazi comparison it is inevitable that someone will ask “is MySQL [...]

Or, why free software advocates love to hate open core I’ve been trying to figure out why it is that free software advocates are so fixated on the open core licensing strategy and recently came to the conclusion that there is only one explanation: open core is free software’s evil twin. To clarify I do [...]

With word that the Symbian Foundation is transforming again, this time away from an open source nonprofit to a licensing operation of Nokia and other Symbian developers and backers, there are indeed some lessons for how commercial open source communities work, and how they don’t. First, we’ll cover some of the meaning and implications for [...]

The ASF threatens to withdraw from the JCP. The demise of the Symbian Foundation. And more.

Given the ongoing and recently increased interest in the open core licensing strategy there have been numerous statements made about its relative popularity, the reasons for its adoption, and the impact it has on collaborative development. As part of our recently released report on the evolution of open source-related business strategies we evaluated the strategies [...]

Oracle increases MySQL pricing. Jono Bacon wants some respect. And more.

The theme of this year’s GOSCON, from my perspective, was that governments remain eager to embrace open source software, and are no doubt already doing so in many cases, but there is still a great demand for more commercial backing of more open source. Even though we continue to see more official adoption and procurement [...]

Based on our ongoing analysis of open source-related business strategies it has become clear that maintaining a balance between control and community is the key issue facing vendors attempting to generate revenue from open source software. That is why we chose Control and Community as the title of our latest CAOS report on the evolution [...]

JCP election results. Funding for Acquia and Continuent. Fedora 14. And more.