Peter Galli

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Free Software Foundation on Monday released a 21-page document that explains the rationale for the changes it has proposed to the GNU General Public License in the first draft discussion document of GPL 3.0. The document was released at the First International Conference on GPLv3 here at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The first discussion draft of the GNU General Public License was finally released on Monday, and addresses the issues of patents and patent-related retaliation, as well as its compatibility with other licenses. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the original license, was the first to take the floor […]

The first public draft of GNU General Public License 3.0 will be released at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, and open-source software advocates are hoping that effective provisions for software patents as well as GPL compatibility with other licenses will be prominent in the draft. There is […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. has a new vice president for open source and Linux—Christine Martino—a longtime company employee who most recently headed up HPs carrier-grade server division. Martino takes over for HPs longtime Linux and open-source vice president, Martin Fink, who was tasked last May with running HPs high-end NonStop server division in addition to being vice […]

Editors Note: This story is Part 2 in a series of three stories about Microsofts Linux and open-source lab. Microsoft Corp. seems to be moving away from focusing on the actual number of security patches and updates that it and its software competitors release. Instead, it is concentrating on making it easy and efficient for […]

The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, again has rapped Microsoft Corp. on the knuckles, this time warning the Redmond, Wash., software maker that it could face a retroactive fine of up to $2.37 million a day for failing to comply with the commissions antitrust order. The fine, if levied, will be […]

Some five months after Google announced plans to open a product R&D center in China and appoint former Microsoft Vice President Kai-Fu Lee to head the operation, the parties have settled the matter. In a brief statement released late last month, Microsoft spokesperson Jack Evans said the parties resolved their issues. Evans declined to give […]

The first draft of GNU General Public License Version 3 will be unveiled next week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., but that milestone is likely to be more of a beginning than an ending. The release of the draft will kick off months of debate over the content and exact wording […]

Editors Note: This story is Part 1 in a series of three stories about Microsofts Linux and open-source lab. Microsoft Corp.s Linux and open-source lab on the Redmond, Wash., campus has been running some interesting tests of late, one of which looked at how well the latest Windows client software runs on legacy hardware in […]

Microsoft Corp. last month moved a step closer to releasing the first fully featured build of Windows Vista, the next version of its operating system due for final release late this year. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., in July made the first beta of Windows Vista available to about 20,000 technical beta testers and also released […]