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Apple Squashes the iPhone SDK NDA: What's the OSS Impact?

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After much teeth-gnashing from the developer community, Apple has finally dropped its draconian and restrictive non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on the iPhone software development kit (SDK). In the seven months since the SDK showed up, Apple has taken much heat from developers and iPhone users alike over its lack of platfrom openness. The platform still isn't open, but it is a step in the right direction for Apple to eliminate this NDA. Here's what this means for the open source phones that will be competing with the iPhone.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

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The Wiz and Pandora: Open source gaming handhelds squaring off.....

Linux-based netbook prices dropping now that the Intel Atom shortage is disappearing.....

Cleversafe, maker of open source dispersed storage software, wins a Wall Street Journal Innovation award.....

LinuxCon will not be a tradeshow.....



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Comparing Apples to Jackalopes

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Mark Shuttleworth, the man at the helm of Canonical and Ubuntu, went into greater detail last week about his thoughts on making future Ubuntu releases more user-focused. In the past, Shuttleworth has made no pretense that he feels Apple has, historically, offered a superior user experience.

Shuttleworth's comments have elicited striking reactions, ranging from enthusiastic support to concern about what innovation really means.



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The iPhone Apps Look Good: Spend Some Money Google!

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At yesterday's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, where Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 3G and numerous other initiatives, it became very clear that the coming battle among smartphones will be largely decided on? the basis of who gets the best applications. Applications built with the upcoming iPhone 2.0 SDK looked very mature, and there were many demonstrations showing how easy they were to create. What does this mean for Google's Linux-based Android mobile platform and the wave of Linux-based phones expected later this year?


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The Business Prospects for Open Source: What's Needed?

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I've just been reading through a report from Olliance Group (a consulting firm for open source companies), and it contains some good material about companies and projects focused on open source. The report is a summary of the 2008 Open Source Think Tank from February, where 120 leading pundits came together. Quite a bit of the report contains familiar rah-rah material about Yahoo buying Zimbra and Sun buying MySQL, but the most interesting thoughts are about how open source software vendors can benefit from imitating some of the practices of mature software companies. Here's why some of this makes sense.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow......

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Word is expected Wednesday on whether Microsoft's OOXML will be approved as an international standard, but there are charges of voting irregularities.....Mac OS X and Windows Vista fell easily in a money-backed hacking contest but Ubuntu was unscathed.....Adobe has released an alpha version of its AIR application for Linux, and is joining the Linux Foundation.....Does the world of open source need a new breed of business matchmakers to spread adoption?.....



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OSBC: Pundits Weigh in on Open Source

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As the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco gets underway this week, the tech publication is posting a series of interesting transcripts from roundtable discussions on open source topics. The roundtables include a number of well-known pundits, including CNet writer Matt Asay, Bruce Perens (credited by many as coining the term open source), Sam Ramji (senior director of platform technology at Microsoft), Zack Urlocker (vice president of products at MySQL) and many others. Much of the talk surrounds the trend toward commercialization of open source products.


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