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Will The Wild Fox Firefox Fork Disregard Patents?

Most of us users of Mozilla’s Firefox browser are used to getting new versions of Firefox from Mozilla, but, like many open source projects, Firefox has already been forked into other versions. Now, as OSnews reports , a new fork of the browser is taking shape.

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Trust, But Verify: Being Responsible with Social Media

“A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.” Mark Twain said this when news moved at the speed of the telegraph, imagine what he’d clock a lie at now. This weekend a rumor asserting that Apple would require all software to be signed in order to run on Mac OS X 10.7 made its way through Identi.ca and Twitter with astonishing speed .

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Let’s Not Deride Open Core

Open core remains one of the biggest topics in the open source world, as John discussed here . In essence, of course, the term refers to the increasingly popular practice of making the heart of your product open source but putting the rest of it under a paid license. In the world of commercial open source, some players have been pursuing it as a way to make venture backers happy while still benefitting from an open source model, complete with community.

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Let’s Not Deride Open Core

Open core remains one of the biggest topics in the open source world, as John discussed here .

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Let’s Not Deride Open Core

Layoffs Won’t Stop Project Wonderland

Hats off to the Project Wonderland developers. Despite Oracle laying them off, the team will continue work on Project Wonderland .

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