This has been somewhat of a tradition, my predictions for the New Year.
We Feel Fine is an interesting site that searches blogs looking for the word “feel” and copies everything from that word to the end of the sentence. It is a awesome idea that allow you to look though different peoples emotions throughout this Web 2.0 thing. So if you have a chance take a look at what other people are thinking.
I just read today that RedHat/JBoss has trademarked “Hibernate” (USPTO #3135582 look it up here).
A Sun Microsystems Inc. executive said Tuesday said the company is “months” away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license.
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For open source to prosper, people need to stop thinking of it as “free” and instead think of it as “connected capitalism”, delegates at an open source conference in London were told on Tuesday.
Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun Microsystems’ chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, said that open source had been focused for too long on sharing code instead of what he called “the enrichment of the commons”.
The open source community needed to look to the lessons of capitalism and capitalists, said Phipps. And referring to the recent announcement that billionaire Warren Buffet was donating much of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Phipps pointed out that “Warren Buffett is driving gold — he is creating wealth”.
ZDNet UK News – Sun: Open source is about self-interest