May 22nd, 2010 
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Wouldn’t you know it, directly on the heels of Google’s announcement of its WebM royalty-free video codec, and the release of its underlying V8 technology under an open source license, the patent and lawsuit drums are rumbling in the distance. According to reports , MPEG LA, the organization that controls the H.264 video standard, is exploring creating a patent pool license for VP8
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Not Everybody Supports Google’s Open Video Moves
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Tags: apple, disagreement, online, opera, organization, patents, Proprietary, support-spreads, video, video-format, webm, week 
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Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st. Let’s hope Phipps can shake the organization up a bit. I’d hazard a guess that many newcomers to the open source community are partially or even wholly unaware of the OSI and what it’s meant to do, because the OSI has not been a terribly dynamic organization over the past few years
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Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI?
Posted in Open Source News Tags: board, danese-cooper, director, open source initiative, organization, osi, past, patent-trolling, seen-as-dormant, software-titans, source, sun, supreme-court No Comments » March 2nd, 2010 Admin |
Open source projects looking for an easy way to collect donations will want to check out Xipwire .
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Xipwire Helps FOSS Projects Collect Donations for Free
Posted in Open Source News Tags: apache, charity, donations, flickr, open-source, oregon, oregon-recycler, organization, sms, source-projects, transaction, xipwire No Comments » January 29th, 2010 Admin |
Once again the Defective by Design have sprung into action to denounce another product from Apple, and once again nobody really cares. Defective by Design is a marketing campaign sponsored by the Free Software Foundation. While the FSF does plenty of good work, DBD is increasingly out of touch with the majority of users.
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Defective by Design is Defective
Posted in Open Source News Tags: apple, dbd, defective, drm, goals, industry, ipad, linux, mission, organization, products, steve-jobs, words No Comments » January 22nd, 2010 Admin |
The WordPress Foundation is officially open for business. The foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to ensure access to a stable and free platform for Web publishing. There’s not a ton of information on the site just yet , but it does spell out the philosophy of the organization and general information about the new organization
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WordPress Foundation Launched
Posted in Open Source News Tags: cms, drupal, end-item, general-public, iphone, organization, philosophy, philosophy-page, press-plugins, source No Comments »
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