Paranoid Android. Canonical and Gnome. A new OSI. And more.
Paranoid Android
If you are interested in the potential violation of the GPL by the Android kernel you have probably already immersed yourself in the numerous blog posts published on the topic. If not, start with Sean Hogle’s analysis or Bradley M Kuhn’s overview of the original allegations and work backwards from there, not forgetting a detour for the obligatory Microsoft connection. Linus Torvalds said claim “seems totally bogus”. In the meantime, Microsoft sued Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec for patent infringement by their Android devices.
On the relationship between Canonical and Gnome
Similarly, if you already have an interest in the relationship between Canonical and the Gnome community you will probably have already read the numerous posts written on the subject in the past week. If not Dave Neary’s Lessons Learned is a good place to start, while Mark Shuttelworth’s response is also worth a read, as is his earlier post. If you are *really* interested in the relationship between Canonical and Gnome, look no further than Jeff Waugh’s series of posts on the subject.
A new Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative confirmed its new board appointments and announced plans to move to a representative model that will enable open source communities to become members.
…and relax
Couchbase announced the general availability of Couchbase Server, and the formation of the Couchbase board of advisers, while J Chris Anderson outlined the details of the new release.
Best of the rest
# The Centre for Technology Policy Research published a review of the UK government’s track record when it comes to open source and open standards-related policies.
# As the Drizzle fork of MySQL reached general availability Brian Aker outlined the drivers behind its development and the technical details.
# The Qt team responded to the reporting of the sale of the commercial Qt business from Nokia to Digia.
# JasperSoft reported 50% growth in year-over-year sales, and a 30% increase in average customer contract size.
# Revolution Analytics announced a partnership with IBM Netezza.
# Pentaho announced the worldwide general availability of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 3.8.
# Zenoss introduced Zenoss Datacenter Insight, providing analytics on physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT resources.
# 10gen released version 1.8 of its document database, including support for journaling and incremental MapReduce.
# Oracle released an update to MySQL Enterprise Edition, including integration with MyOracle support.
# Red Hat boasted of independent recognition of the strength of its patent portfolio, while it emerged that the company previously paid $4.2m to settle a patent infringement claim.
# Karmasphere and Canonical announced a partnership to support Karmasphere’s Hadoop-related products on Ubuntu.
# The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the MeeGo Smart TV Working Group.
# Amazon is launching an app store for Android applications.
# The results of the 2011 Eclipse board election.
# OpenERP launched its Apps library for open source business apps.
# The Eclipse Foundation launched the open beta of OrionHub.
# The Alembic Foundation was formed to create open source data sharing and management technologies for individuals.
# Juniper Networks joined the Eclipse Foundation.
# The 2011 Future of Open Source Survey, from North Bridge Venture Partners, The 451 Group and Computerworld is now live.
# Rhomobile launched RhoHub 3.0.
# Gluster joined the OpenStack community.
# Sirius launched 24×7 open source support
# eXo introduced eXo Platform 3.5 and launched eXo Cloud IDE.
# Cloud.com released a new version of CloudStack, its open source cloud computing platform.
# Media training will be available for developers at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.
# InfoQ asked, What is the future of Apache Harmony?
# Richard Stallman said something mildly controversial about cell phones.
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