Sean Michael Kerner

Sometimes even with the best of intentions can lead to the road to litigation for violating an source license license. That’s the message from wireless vendor High Gain Antennas, which had been on the receiving end of a GPL v2 open source license lawsuit from the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of BusyBox […]

From the ‘whatever you can do, I can do better’  files: Among the ‘exciting’ new features of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) is something called ‘Activities’ (which as many open source browser users know really is just a form of the microformats standards that Firefox already supports). To go a step further, IBM staffer […]

Finally after all the secrecy dating back to October of 2006 about IE 8 we FINALLY get to see it. As was the case with IE 7 be VERY careful if you’re trying this out at home/work as by default IE 8 replaces your IE 7 installation. With IE 8 Microsoft has also been somewhat […]

For the last two years, AOL has been promoting its OpenAIM initiative as a vehicle to enable developers to build their own AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)-based clients. But there were issues with documentation that got in the way of some projects. With the release of Open AIM 2.0 today, AOL is aiming AIM at open […]

It’s a sign of the times when a Linux vendor issues an announcement about the hiring of legal talent. Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today announced that it had hired Rob Tiller as vice president and assistant general counsel, and Richard Fontana, as open source licensing and patent counsel. The hires could be a sign that the […]

In the world of technology we’re always looking for the latest ‘rock star’. Who is that next hot tech visionary that will build an adoring following of thousands? In my opinion we can now add the founder of the open source content management system Drupal (and its commercial startup Acquia) Dries Buytaert to the rock […]

What does Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Cupid and the Stork all have in common? Well beyond being fairy tale kind of characters, they’re all apparently Cisco customers too. As part of a marketing effort ahead of today’s launch of the ASR 1000 router (which I wrote about over on the main site) Cisco had […]

For much of the last decade, running PHP on a server meant running the open source scripting language on the Linux operating system. No longer. As a result of a multiyear deal between PHP’s lead commercial sponsor Zend and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), PHP is now a first class citizen on Microsoft’s new Windows Server 2008. Zend […]

While we’ve known about SCO’s new $100 million lifeline for a few weeks, SCO formally filed its Chapter 11 Reorganization plan only at the end of last week (Feb 29th). In a FORM-8K  SEC filing this morning SCO revealed that the formal filing has now occurred with the Bankruptcy Court. What this means in plain […]

Networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a new routing platform that could change the entire networking landscape. Cisco’s new Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 platform is a WAN aggregation platform that includes firewall, Session Border Control (SBC), VPN and other core networking features. “This is a new category […]

It wasn’t the DMCA or the RIAA’s fault (honest). The AllPeers BitTorrent service for Firefox announced today that they were shutting down their service because they weren’t meeting investor expectations. In a blog post Matthew Gertner, AllPeer’s CTO, noted that AllPeers has not achieved the kind of growth in their user base that their investors […]

The Pidgin open source instant messaging client is out with its latest release version 2.4.0.  Pidgin is the project that was formerly known as Gaim and is widely deployed on both open source and Windows platforms. Pidgin is what’s known as a multi-headed IM client with support for AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, […]