29 January – Five Stories You Need to Read

Yahoo! News predicts that “[t]he rift between the free- and open-source factions will have profound implications for the rest of the software industry when GPL 3 is adopted.”

According to The Register, “BT says it has done enough to make its wireless Hub comply with the General Public License despite criticism from gpl-violations.org that it is still in breach of the license.”

CNetNews.com reports that “[t]he Higgins and Bandit open-source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of open-source identity services with a link to a new Microsoft identity system.”

In another story on CNetNews.com, Michael Kanellos reports on South Korea’s “rampant piracy”.

The International Herald Tribune writes that “[t]he founder of YouTube, Chad Hurley, made news last weekend at a meeting of some of the most powerful people in the world, announcing that his wildly successful site would start sharing revenue with its millions of users.”