Peter Galli

SAN FRANCISCO—The open-source business model fits in well with the concept of Web 2.0, John Roberts, the CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM, told attendees at the Web 2.0 conference here on April 16. Admitting that he did not know exactly what Web 2.0 meant when he started working on his presentation titled “Open Source Business […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on April 17 that there is absolutely no merit to the accusation by Microsoft and others that Googles acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion raises antitrust and privacy concerns. “Microsoft. Did you say Microsoft? And AT&T? Microsoft and AT&T? What is the year? They are wrong. Come on, they […]

Stuart Cohen, former CEO of Open Source Development Labs, is launching a new company April 16 that will focus on building non-competitive, essential software for vertical industries in a collaborative environment that helps companies solve shared IT problems. The business model for Collaborative Software Initiative is simple: Develop and support essential code that does not […]

Stuart Cohen, former CEO of the Open Source Development Labs, will this week launch a new company, Collaborative Software Initiative, which he will head. CSI will focus on building noncompetitive, essential software for vertical industries in a collaborative environment to help companies solve their shared IT problems. The business model for the company is simple: […]

Microsoft has pushed back the release of the first public beta for Windows Server virtualization, code-named Viridian, from the first half of 2007 until the second half of the year so that it can meet its internal goals for performance and scalability. Viridian is Microsofts Windows hypervisor technology that will run beneath the operating system […]

The accusations and counteraccusations continue to fly between ACT legal counsel Richard Wilder and open-source luminary Bruce Perens over whether the third draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 creates genuine legal risks for the drafters and potential users. The brouhaha started after Wilder, an attorney at Sidley Austin and the intellectual property […]

Open-source developer and evangelist Bruce Perens has scathingly dismissed claims by a lawyer for the Association for Competitive Technology that the latest draft of Version 3 of the GNU General Public License brings legal risks. “Lets make it clear that [ACT] is Microsofts lobbying front and that they are going to paint as negative a […]

The third discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3, particularly the provisions designed to block patent cooperation agreements like the one between Novell and Microsoft, could potentially expose those developing and using the license to legal risk. So says Richard Wilder, an attorney at Sidley Austin and the intellectual property counsel for […]

The Linux Foundation, which was created in January 2007 out of the merger between the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group, has signed up three new members: Marvell, Nokia and VirtualLogix. This brings current membership of the foundation—which has the goal of providing services that are useful to the community and industry, […]

Microsofts Office Open XML format moved a step closer to becoming an ISO standard on April 2, when it was opened up for five months of technical review and balloting, which ends Sept. 2. This is the latest in a string of developments over the past four months, which started when the Office Open XML […]