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Last week Novell released version 1.9 of the Mono open source .NET framework as well as a new IDE called Monodevelop. The newest version of Mono now supports a number of the advanced features found in Microsoft?s .NET 3.0 framework.
While Mono and Novell, which sponsors the project, have been much maligned by various factions within the open source community, the overall impact Mono could have on Microsoft and the open source community could in fact be large.
The New York Times has a story on alleged troubles surrounding Jimmy Wales, co-founder of open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia.....Sun Microsystems and open source backup and recovery company Zmanda have announced a partnership to deliver a global backup and recovery system for MySQL Enterprise subscribers.....The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is claiming victory in yet another infringement lawsuit over the use of the open source GPL license.....
Anyone observing the open source community will tell you that open source is growing at an amazing pace. Specifically, the number of applications and the maturity of those applications are growing at an amazing pace. I could have told you that last week, but using anecdotal examples and data I have on hand from the openSUSE project. Now I can tell you that based on a study of 5,122 active and popular open source projects.
