Open Source

Introducing Eclipse Labs

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 13:42 by Mike Milinkovich
Back in December, I discussed a number of initiatives that the Eclipse Foundation was going to be working on in 2010. The one that attracted the most feedback was “Eclipse Labs”. Well, we are very happy to announce that thanks to Google , this idea has become a reality. Better...

EPL/GPL Commentary

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 09:15 by Mike Milinkovich
A while ago, we received a request to take a look at an open letter on the compatibility of the Eclipse Public License ( EPL ) and the GNU General Public License ( GPL ). This led to a number of conversations with the Free Software Foundation ( FSF )...

One Big Step for EclipseRT

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 08:16 by Mike Milinkovich
The future of Java technology in the enterprise rests with its rapidly evolving ability to regain its original promise of lightweight, flexible and dynamic application development and deployment. In other words, the faster Java gets to the stackless stack , the brighter its future will be. As James Governor said...

Welcome to the EPL

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 12:00 by Mike Milinkovich
A bit of good news for the Eclipse Public License this morning comes from Intuit, which announced that their community site code.intuit.com will be using the EPL. Intuit had previously decided to use the Common Public License , but when we pointed out that it had been superseded at the...

EPL ~= ASL

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 18:45 by Mike Milinkovich
Boy, am I on some kind of blog binge this week. It’s amazing how a few weeks without travel helps. Dana Blackenhorn wrote a piece earlier today discussing Matt Asay’s article on why the Apache license is better than the GPL. In his article, he states the following: If your...

Licenses Matter

Monday, April 27, 2009 - 14:27 by Mike Milinkovich
I’ve been thinking about posting on this topic for a while, and recent posts by Greg Stein and Eric Raymond have finally motivated me to get off my butt and git ‘er done. As I mentioned recently , the EPL is on a bit of a roll at the moment...

Harvard Open Source Case Study

Monday, April 14, 2008 - 13:56 by Anonymous (not verified)
Harvard Business Review has published a case study titled ‘ Open Source: Salvation or Suicide ‘? The focus of the case is a fictitious company that is dealing with the pros and cons of open sourcing their gaming platform. It is great to see Harvard paying attention to open source...