Business of Open Source

Does Microsoft's 'Sudo Patent' Protect User Account Control?

Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:49 InformationWeek

Has Microsoft gone one step closer to patenting the words "May I?" That's been the general sentiment about the granting of Microsoft's "Rights elevator" patent -- which would cover User Account Control ("UAC") in Vista and Windows 7, but possibly also the generic sudo command in Unix.

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Microsoft Pulls Windows 7 Tool After GPL Violation Claims

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 07:02 ArsTechnica

Last week, Within Windows noted something suspicious in regards to Microsoft's use of the GNU's General Public License (GPL).

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Project Management Lessons from the FreeDOS Project

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 05:12 Martin Michlmayr

A lot of people seem to think that open source is a magic solution to project management and that open source projects will automatically attract a large and healthy community of contributors and users who will improve the software. This, of course, is not the case.

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SFLC Tech Director Finds One New GPL Violator Every Day

Monday, 09 November 2009 15:27 ArsTechnica

Bradley Kuhn, the technical director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), has published a helpful set of guidelines about the most productive way to respond to a suspected violation of GNU's General Public License (GPL).

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