Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Open source license Affero GPL irks users; NetCitadel's Unique Dual Licensing Model

NetCitadel's Unique Dual Licensing Model For Managing Firewall Rules | BitNami Builds On Its Open Source Packaging To Become A Cloud Host

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Is the Affero GPL unfriendly to hobbyists?
Joe Brockmeier: A few days ago I wrote about GNU MediaGoblin, but its use of the Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) license irked a few commenters. Is the AGPL's "one additional feature" too much for hobbyists? Read More


WEBCAST: Limelight Networks

The Next Phase of Cloud
What is the next phase of the cloud revolution? Cloud's native services orientation can open up a world of options for infrastructure, software and other strategic considerations—like your network. This webcast will also cover how organizations can take advantage of cloud's robust storage capacity and how to manage that storage. Learn More!

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NetCitadel's Unique Dual Licensing Model For Managing Firewall Rules
Alan Shimel: NetCitadel is the company behind the open source Firewall Builder project. Read More

BitNami Builds On Its Open Source Packaging To Become A Cloud Host
Alan Shimel: BitRock is the company behind Bitnami.org the developers of the popular pre-packaged open source packages that more than one million people have used. Read More

Alas Poor Skype, I Knew You Well
Stephen Spector: With the announcement that Microsoft is buying Skype, I thought I would help promote an alternative solution from the GNU team, GNU Free Call. Read More


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Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more!

Great news...now you can download your very own E. coli bacterium
Phil Odence: The same concepts that have lead to open source rockin' the software world have spawned the beginning of a revolution in biotech. An organization called Biofab to creating building bio products. Read More

Anti-competitive Apple policies kill iOS app, company
Joe Brockmeier: The deadline is approaching for Apple developers to implement in-app purchases. Despite being wildly unpopular, Apple is sticking to its guns even when the 30% fee it wants on sales is more than the profit the developer makes on the product. Read More

Almost all Android phones vulnerable to authentication attack
Paul McNamara: Researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany have identified a vulnerability in Android that allows an attacker to steal and use authentication credentials on 99% of phones. Read More


WEBCAST: Brocade Communications Inc.

Meet Tomorrow¹s Demands- Use Ethernet Fabric
Discover how evolving data center architecture using Ethernet Fabrics is driving IT responsiveness and agility. A new Webinar from Brocade, featuring thought leader Gartner, discusses the growing importance of virtualization and cloud computing as enabling technologies. Learn more!

Microsoft faces reality with open source outreach
Robert Mullins: Microsoft's Sandy Gupta told attendees at an open source conference in San Francisco Monday that the company will, for the first time, support interoperability of its software with the non-commercial version of Linux. Read More

Microsoft's open source love-in expands with CentOS Linux support
Microsoft said it is now adding interoperability support for CentOS Linux so it can be run on Hyper-V, the virtualization platform that comes with Windows Server Read More

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Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More



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