Wednesday December 13, 2006 JavaOne Open Source Track
This is the last week for paper submissions for JavaOne. Something you may not have noticed is there is a new track this year:
Open Source and Community Development
Open source initiatives, empowered by wide-scale sharing and participation, are transforming business models and leading the pace of innovation. Why? Because it offers freedom to every user and developer by encouraging genuinely collaborative innovation. The open source model offers an entirely new way for developers to collaborate and build upon the best of the commons. The result: open source is reaping tremendous leaps in innovation, and standards-based, interoperable solutions.
We are looking for submissions on the following topics:
- Free/Open Source Java
- OpenSolaris
- GNU/Linux
- OpenOffice
- mySQL & PostgreSQL
- Apache Derby
Get those session proposals in right now! Given a decent range of proposals I'll put something creative together. I'd also like to hear from any FOSS community that is planning a casual meeting in San Francisco the same week as JavaOne, so we can collaborate.
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( Dec 13 2006, 12:11:33 PM PST )
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Tuesday December 12, 2006 Templates for OpenOffice.org
You'll recall that we've introduced service/support packages for OpenOffice.org and a blogging plug-in for both StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. What I haven't mentioned before is that we are now selling a Template Pack that includes all the professional-quality document templates that are shipped with StarOffice. At $7 it's excellent value and provides another easy way you can support the Sun team that's doing the bulk of the work implementing and maintaining OpenOffice.org - another indication of our direction.
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( Dec 12 2006, 01:01:01 AM PST )
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Monday December 11, 2006 JDK 6 Packages Available For GNU/Linux
Java SE 6 was launched this morning. This afternoon, the install bundles for Debian-based GNU/Linux systems were made available. Huge congratulations to Tom Marble, who I know has worked very hard to make this happen the same day as the release (so hard he's not got round to any blogging while he's been doing it).
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( Dec 11 2006, 12:58:19 PM PST )
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links for 2006-12-11
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Looks like there will be native platform support for ISO26300 OpenDocument format (at least for text files) in the next version of Apple OS X. Sweet!
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Bob explains why it was no news that ECMA approved Microsoft's standardisation of their Office.12 product's file format. Sun hasn't commented since we left ECMA some time ago due to their coin-op nature.
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( Dec 11 2006, 04:20:38 AM PST )
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Java SE 6 Launched in London
I'm in the minimalist splendour of the St Martin's Lane Hotel in London today attending the launch of Java SE 6. Mark can tell you all the details, but what stands out to me is the emphasis of the developer support service. For the next 60 days, developers can try the support service free of charge to help their migration to the Java 6 platform. More importantly, the range of support services on software from Sun is growing - OpenOffice.org, NetBeans, now Java 6. It's not the only way we'll be monetising our engagement in FOSS, but you can see the trend.
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( Dec 11 2006, 03:39:19 AM PST )
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Sunday December 10, 2006 links for 2006-12-10
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The new edition of MAKE: is out in the UK.
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Presumably now the music fans they are blackmailing are fighting back they need to extort money from the musicians instead. It's pretty clear who the RIAA are protecting, and it's not musicians.
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Dan Lyons doesn't really understand the new Sun yet, but he has IBM totally figured - and I think there are some of those "professional protesters" beginning to realise it too.
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"What if you could rig it so that competing with your flagship product was against the law? Under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, breaking an anti-copying system is illegal, even if you're breaking it for a legal reason."
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( Dec 10 2006, 04:19:11 AM PST )
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Saturday December 09, 2006 links for 2006-12-09
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I discuss the move to Free Sun's Java implementations, in the usual relaxed LUG Radio way.
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This text book already includes a chapter on the GPLed OpenSPARC design.
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Just posting this here as a warning to my kids when the Christmas tree goes up soon.
Posted by webmink
( Dec 09 2006, 04:18:16 AM PST )
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Friday December 08, 2006 links for 2006-12-08
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Apparently there are 30 tornados a year in the UK. Seems it's no safer here than Texas after all.
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"ODF is about the future, Open XML is about the past. We voted for the future." Sun left ECMA some time back because of this propensity to fossilise the past rather than propel the future.
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My GPLv3 posting hits Slashdot. I'll be tracking the comments.
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Do you know the secret of happiness? These film-makers would like to hear from you.
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This is a great devekopment in copyright practice. If this principle were to get a foothold we'd be heading to a much fairer world with copyright.
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Adobe blogger notes that Microsoft's Office 12 XML spec, which ECMA just rushed to approval, is prohibitively expensive to implement /even for Microsoft/ whose Office-for-Mac team are now struggling with it. Hope ISO is listening.
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( Dec 08 2006, 04:20:22 AM PST )
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Wednesday December 06, 2006 links for 2006-12-06
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More coverage of my GPL v3 blog.
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Sun's EVP of Software comments positively on GPLv3 as well.
Posted by webmink
( Dec 06 2006, 04:22:38 AM PST )
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Monday December 04, 2006 links for 2006-12-04
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Yahoo as ever showing they have neither scruples nor respect for the FOSS community.
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PhoneME (that's Java Mobile) for the Sony Playstation Portable. Yes, already.
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News: Next draft due in January, final version due March 15, 2007, and Samba will be switching to GPL 3 as soon as the team can manage it.
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Dalibor has a proposal for IBM and Oracle, who both seem to think that the only valid communities are the ones they can exploit.
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Another missed aspiration. Now I'll never get to travel the executive jet...
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Lovely words people find, huh - "courts", as if we are pursuing an unwilling partner in some way. We've been working on GPLv3 all year, and the opinion I expressed in my blog is the one I have been expressing most of that time.
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( Dec 04 2006, 04:23:19 AM PST )
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Saturday December 02, 2006 links for 2006-12-02
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OpenDocument is now, irrefutably, an international standard - see here ISO trying to charge for the spec. Another open source business model.
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On the contrary, Mr Harris, Sun's choice joins the existing community, it doesn't start a new one. The examples you cite were both started in reaction to the fact companies like yours can't strip-mine that community easily.
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( Dec 02 2006, 04:19:07 AM PST )
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Friday December 01, 2006 links for 2006-12-01
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Excellent, clear statement about why the GPL works best for maintaining a level playing field with patents, especially the phrase >>patent-troll-speak for "curses, foiled again". << (thanks, Mark)
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Bruno moves to Sun - welcome to the team, Bruno!
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My lips are sealed. And actually, I think the OpenSolaris community gets a vote too...
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I knew we'd started this but I'd not looked at the details - it's very sweet indeed (as long as you are a startup and based in the US). Very cheap gear, free software.
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These answers would have been fine in his last job at IBM, but they do not reflect an understanding of either his new customers (Free software deployers) or more importantly his new community (Free software developers).
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( Dec 01 2006, 04:21:44 AM PST )
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