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Yahoo Tries to Become the Cool Kid -- By Being More Open

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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its intention to purchase Yahoo for $44 billion in cash and stock. Now, Yahoo has announced its intention to become a fully open, platformizable company, letting developers mix and match its services and data in new and different ways. How much of this is designed to make Yahoo more profitable, and how much is simply a reaction to Microsoft's acquisition attempt? Will openness bring Yahoo more revenues, or simply make it a cooler company in developers' eyes?


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Appcelerator Goes Google

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Open-source RIA and SOA framework Appcelerator has a new trick up its sleeve: integration with Google's new AppEngine.

Luckily for the Appcelerator folks, their backend was already written in Python, so that porting it over was apparently a fairly simple job. Will other vendors follow suit?



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Four Things Linux Needs

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Mike Gunderloy's post on FOSS Factory got me thinking about what Linux needs to gain mass market acceptance. After thinking about it, I've come up with a list of four things that the Linux community needs that aren't (as far as I know) yet in the works.

This isn't a list of impossible goals -- all of these things are attainable if the Linux industry and community were to decide that they are priorities. That's not to say that they'd be easy to accomplish, but the Linux community has proven good at working together when it's important.



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More Momentum at OpenX: A New CEO from Yahoo! and New Digs

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There are big moves going on at OpenX. Former Yahoo! ad executive Tim Cadogan has joined the company as CEO, and the firm is moving its headquarters from chilly London to sunny L.A. If you haven't followed the OpenX story, it's an open source hosted ad management solution that competes with offerings such as Google's Ad Manager. It serves about 30,000 mostly small- to medium-sized publishers with billions of ads per day. There are good reasons to look into it as an alternative to Google's offerings, and one of those is that Google's acquisition of DoubleClick makes it both a publisher and an ad server, which may worry some clients from the perspective of conflicts.


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Google App Engine and Open Source: What's in it for Us?

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ScreenshotWith yesterday's big announcement of App Engine, Google has become the latest big player to join Amazon, Sun, and others in offering some way to move your applications to the cloud - or more precisely, to someone else's servers. But what does this mean to open source software efforts? A little thought shows that the implications are decidedly mixed.


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oCERT: Volunteer Security Support and Response for OSS Projects

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Who ya gonna call? Ready for the third-party, volunteer open source software security police? Open source software is often criticized for not including the robust security features, and response to security issues, found in commercial software counterparts. In addition, code from smaller open source projects is often wrapped into code for bigger projects, which can introduce security issues where there were none before. Now, with backing from Google, several well-known security professionals have launched oCERT--a public effort to provide security handling support and response for open source projects.


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Summer Is Almost Here, and So Is the Summer of Code

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This year, April 1st was supposed to mark another serious day at Google, namely the deadline for student applications to the Summer of Code. But this turned out to be another joke of sorts; Google has extended the deadline to April 7th, giving students several more days to apply.

Google is well known for their many April Fool's Day jokes. I still remember when Gmail was launched; the notion of 1GB of free e-mail storage space was considered so ridiculous that it had to be a joke. Except, of course, that Gmail was serious. This year, April 1st was supposed to mark another serious day at Google, namely the deadline for student applications to the Summer of Code.


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Is Google Oppressing the AGPL?

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Some people are suspicious about the growing power of Google - and some are downright upset. In the latter category we have bloggers Fabrizio Capobianco and Russell Beattie. They claim that Google is deliberately trying to slow the adoption of the Affero General Public License (AGPL) through not making it a choice for open source projects hosted by the Google Code public repository. Google in turn says they're just trying to combat license proliferation. Who's right in this he-said she-said argument?


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