According to Yahoo! News, Cisco is backtracking on its open-source promise, with Cisco Security Technology Group CTO Bob Gleichauf saying that the company has not yet made up its mind about the future of software. eWeek.com writes that “[t]he Microsoft-Novell connection will provide new options for IT departments, most notably [...]
On February 20, the Wall Street Journal decided to publish an Op-Ed by the Patent Counsel for Immersion Corporation – a tech and patent shop which most famously owns the patent on the "force feedback" technology we all turn off on our gaming consoles. And while I am sure Ms. [...]
According to the Sidney Morning Herald, “Telstra has all but ruled itself out of the running to carry Apple's new iPhone mobile when it is released [in Australia] next year with a senior executive launching a withering critique of the device.” CNetNews.com has an interesting article entitled “Opening up an [...]
Based on our prior post that analyzes Section 6 of the European Commission's FLOSS report, we know that there is a growing and in many cases strong private and public sector demand for certain FLOSS applications. This leads the authors to the question of supply? Where are the FLOSS developers? [...]
In our last blog post, we discussed how the European Commission’s FLOSS report is a call to action for Europe’s policymakers. The ambitious proposals in the report aim to do for Europe’s ICT industry, what the Airbus project did for Europe’s aeronautics industry. If you’re going to have industrial policy, [...]