Follow up to this post. Just found Bill Dudney’s post regarding the adverse reaction to Red Hat’s trademark enforcement. Bill offers an excellent analysis on why the open source community reacted as it did. He also argues that “RedHat is not evil for enforcing their trademarks.” Hear hear!
Again, they have every right to enforce the [...]

More news on the open source / trademark front. eWeek reports on Ubuntu’s trademark policy.
Trademarks have recently become something of an issue in open-source circles. Debian, for example, recently took exception to Mozilla’s Firefox trademark rules and called its version of the popular browser, IceWeasel. So, Ubuntu has decided to address possible trademark issues by [...]

eWeek posted a story titled “Is Red Hat Acting Like Microsoft?” Next eWeek posts a story that “Red Hat Responds to Claims It’s the ‘Next Microsoft’” InfoWorld blog’s about eWeek’s story as much ado about …?
So what’s going on here. Well, it all started with Bill Dudney’s blog post (but eWeek links to another blog, [...]

Tim Bray gives us a peek into Sun’s internal Open Source Review process. Tim wrote some code he called the Atom Protocol Exerciser, or APE for short. He wanted to release it, but he had to go through Sun’s approval process first.
There are a bunch of steps. You have to get approval from your own [...]