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OpenSolaris Independence Day

I'm pleased to be able to announce that the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board was able to finalise the language for the OpenSolaris Charter, establishing an independent OpenSolaris community, on Wednesday this week, and it was signed by the responsible Sun executive, Glenn Weinberg, earlier today.

The OpenSolaris community is now independent. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the Charter, and congratulations to the whole community on this landmark.

The next step for the interim OpenSolaris Governing Board (as the CAB is now called) is to define a "constitution" for the community and have it approved by the community. We welcome all contributions - if you're interested, I suggest you subscribe to the cab-discuss alias.

Posted by webmink ( Feb 10 2006, 09:35:54 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [1]

links for 2006-02-11

• Calculating Technology's Future: I Pity The Fool
  Reading this suggests to me the fate of JBoss and others if Oracle chooses to eat them.
• Using Google's Universal Authentication Engine
  Passport Redux?
• Open-Source Tools Effect Hurts Borland
  Eclipse kills Borland's tools.
• Open-Source Advocates Ask for Patience in GPL 3 Debate
  I'm quoted here by Peter Galli. In an otherwise fair article, the assertion of my view on page 1 manages to make me look negative about GPL v3 and as you'll see later I am not (and was not at any point in the interview).
• AT&T Warns Apple, Others, Of Patent Infringement
  Another so-called "standard" is encumbered by patents. What we need is law that makes standards supercede patents so trolls like this fail.
• OpenOffice denies rift with Sun
  ZDNet picks up Andy Updegrove's blog comments on OpenOffice.org and creating a Foundation - my comments there are quoted.

Posted by webmink ( Feb 10 2006, 05:20:14 PM PST ) Permalink

Lost Pioneer

Zack told me just now that one of the pioneers of software development tools has passed away. Mansour Safai, among many other achievements, was the power-house behind Visual Cafe, the first good Java IDE, and the whole Java community owes him a great debt. David Intersimone has a good obituary on his page. A sad loss of a warm hearted pioneer at an early age for our community - my condolences to his family.

Posted by webmink ( Feb 10 2006, 11:44:32 AM PST ) Permalink