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Diaspora: Like an Open Source Facebook
PC World
Students create decentralized, open source alternative to Facebook that they say will give users full control over their privacy. Four New York University ...

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The Next Web
Motorola Droid X And Samsung Captivate Open Source Code Released
Android Police (blog)
As part of the Android's open source Apache license, manufacturers are required to publicly release all of their own modifications and improvements made to ...
Verizon Motorola Droid X source code released, hackers rejoice (sort of)IntoMobile (blog)
Motorola Offers Up Droid X Source CodeThe Next Web

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Snort Creator Slams Open Source IDS Suricata
InformationWeek
Martin Roesch expressed disappointment with the Open Information Security Foundation's efforts, and touted Razorback, Sourcefire's open source analysis and ...

SAP Warms to Open Source
PC World
Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more ...

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Unwired View
Samsung Releases Source Code For Captivate
Everything Android
Showing their dedication to the whole “open source” thing, Samsung have decided to release the entire source code for the ...
Samsung releases Captivate source codeBoy Genius Report (blog)
Samsung Releases Captivate Source CodeThe Next Web
Samsung open sources AT&T Captivate code, custom ROMs sure to followUnwired View
Android Community (blog)
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ZDNet UK
Stormy Skies Ahead for Open Source in the Cloud
Dr. Dobb's
Borenstein points out that open source should not be regarded as a panacea and that, as a computing discipline, it will always be suited to some types of ...
Open source faces hurdles in the cloudZDNet UK
Rackspace reaches for the starsComputing
Why OpenStack matters to the rest of usNetworkWorld.com

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wwwery (blog)
Samsung Releases Captivate Source Code
The Next Web
If you fancy playing around with the Captivate source code, or any other Samsung open-source release for that matter, head on over to the Samsung Open ...
Samsung releases Captivate source codeBoy Genius Report (blog)
Samsung open sources AT&T Captivate code, custom ROMs sure to followUnwired View
Android Update for Galaxy S LeakedMoby1 (blog)
Best Mobile Contracts (blog) -Moby1 (blog) -Mobile Deals Compared (blog)
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TG Daily
Microsoft should starve on radical penguin diet
Register
One big bet Microsoft should make is on open source, the tool of the underdog, a label that is coming to fit the Redmond giant. ...
Microsoft CEO: Tablets are 'job one' for companyMarketWatch
Microsoft Plans Oak Trail Tablets for 2011Digitaltrends.com
Ballmer concedes iPad progress, but vows a Microsoft comebackTechFlash (blog)
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
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An Insiders Historical Perspective On Open Source IDS
NetworkWorld.com
If you are not familiar with the particulars of this latest incident you can read about them in Ellen Messmer's article and my fellow open source subnet ...
Security firm Sourcefire gaining financial strengthBusinessWeek
Sourcefire's Razorback Deep-Dive Threat DetectionDr. Dobb's
Sourcefire introduces Razorback to detect threat in near-real timeComputer Business Review
SC Magazine UK
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Gemini Releases Hibari as Open Source
TMCnet
Gemini Mobile (News - Alert) Technologies has announced that it will release Hibari - meaning “Cloud Bird” in Japanese - as open source ...

Adobe to acquire Day Software. Gnome contributors. Oracle bad, Oracle good. And more.

Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca
“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”

# Adobe agreed to acquire Day Software for $240m.

# Dave Neary published Gnome census, including a list of the top company contributors. , which prompted the following…
# Greg DeKoenigsberg – Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%
# Jeffrey Stedfast – Re:Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%
# Jono Bacon: – Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME Contributions
# Carlo Daffara – About contributions, Canonical and adopters.

# Oracle rebrands Java, breaks Eclipse. Oracle demonstrates great community support and fixes Eclipse.

# Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Enterprise Linux, Solaris and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms.

# Oracle reportedly shut down servers Sun had contributed to the build farm for PostgreSQL.

# Whamcloud is a new venture-backed company formed around the Lustre distributed file system.

# Openbravo reported that new downloads of its open source ERP software have increased 320% in five months.

# Mitchell Baker provided an update on Mozilla’s search fro a new CEO.

# Nuxeo updated Nuxeo Digital Asset Management and released Nuxeo DAM – Cloud Edition.

# CodeWeavers released CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1 for both Mac and Linux.

# Rapid7 is sponsoring and partnering with w3af, the open source Web application attack and audit framework.

# Brian Proffitt said don’t be too quick to dismiss open core.

# Tarus Balog explained why he thinks open core is dead.

# Nagios Enterprises gained more than 200 Nagios XI customers in the first half of 2010.

# Former Sun distinguished engineer Bryan Cantrill joined Joyent as VP of engineering.

# The Indonesian Ministry for Research and Technology estimated that migration to OSS could save state as much $400m.

# Novell said reports SuSE Linux losing share to Ubuntu are nonsense.

# The GNOME Release Team pushed the GNOME 3.0 release to March 2011.

# Convirture released version 2.0 of the Enterprise edition of its ConVirt virtualization management software.

# Sourcefire launched Razorback, a framework for multi-vendor threat detection and protection.

# Qualys released BlindElephant, an open source web application fingerprinting engine.

# Contegix agreed to sponsor the Clojure development language project.

# vtiger unveiled vtiger CRM On Demand, the cloud-based version of its open source CRM software.

# Jos Poortvliet joined Novell as openSUSE Community Manager.

# Funambol introduced DM Carrier Edition an open source device management offering for WiMAX.

# Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic developed Alembic, an open source exchange format.

# The Register reported that Canonical will integrate Hadoop and NoSQL database technologies with Ubuntu 10.10.

# The Open Invention Network experienced 35% growth in licensees during the second quarter.

# OpenSAF released version 4.0 of its high availability middleware platform.

5 lessons for win-win open source projects
InfoWorld
IT decision-makers can learn important lessons from Lockheed Martin when evaluating whether to open-source an internal project. ...
Lockheed Martin Debuts Open-Source Eureka StreamsCIO Insight

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Security firm Sourcefire gaining financial strength
BusinessWeek
Sourcefire was founded in 2001 by CTO Martin Roesch, who created the Snort open-source IDS/IPS technology. The company struggled in its earlier years to ...

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While the parties have not formally disclosed it, the immediate ACTA schedule now appears to include discussions between the U.S. and the EU next month in Washington followed by a full round of talks (Round Ten) in Japan in September.  Some have criticized the exclusion of the remaining ACTA countries in the August discussions, but as I posted earlier, the ACTA text has really come down to a U.S. vs. EU document with the remaining countries picking a side.  The sticking point in Washington will undoubtedly be scope of the treaty, with the EU pushing for inclusion of geographical indications and the U.S. making it clear they are willing to cave on almost anything that does not involve changes to domestic law.  Geographical indications would require change, however, which is what led to my post speculating about the possibility of an ACTA without Europe. 

Last week I posted a scorecard on the major areas of disagreement. This final chart highlights the key changes from the April meeting in New Zealand to the June meeting in Lucerne, with many changes the result of a shift in U.S. position.

Article
April 2010 Draft
July 2010 Draft
Article 1.4: Privacy and disclosure of information
There was a placeholder stating an article needed to be drafted.
There is now text of the article.
Article 1.X: (General Principles)
No such article.
Aus/NZ/Sing/Can are proposing a generic set of principles for enforcement of IP, including social/economic welfare, transfer of technology etc.
Article 2.X.1: General Obligations with respect to enforcement
No such paragraph.
General statement regarding effective and expeditious action, and may not create barrier to trade.  The text is copied from article 41.1 of TRIPS.
Article 2.X.4: General obligations with respect to enforcement
Place holder for government exceptions/liability.
US has proposed text allowing for exemptions for governments based on fair compensation.
Article 2.X.6: General obligations (rights of the defendant and third parties)
Obligation to ensure the protection of the rights of the defendant and third parties appeared only under the criminal enforcement section.
This obligation has been moved to general obligations
Article 2.2.1: Damages
A more rigid calculation of damages as: compensatory to injury caused to right holder OR accounting of profits.
More flexible approach to how damages are calculated based on taking into account a number of factors.
Article 2.2.3: Damages (April 2010 draft)
Even unknowing infringers could be liable for accounting of profits or damages, and these could be statutory amounts. (Based on the January 2010 leak this was an EU proposal)
Removed.
Article 2.2.5: Damages (legal fees)
There were a 2 options proposed (which was a streamlining from the Jan 2010 leak).
A single clear statement that attorney and court fees can be ordered payable.
Article 2.6: Application by rights holder
Formerly 2 options for the scope of border measures on application by rights holder.
One of the few areas where another option has been put on the table.  The US/J/NZ/Can/Sing/Aus/CH/Mex have proposed a 3rd option (option #2 in the July draft) which clearly makes in-transit measures optional. 
Article 2.14.1: Criminal Enforcement
Broader definition of what constitutes a “commercial scale”.
Specific wording suggested that would exclude (EU) or allow to be  excluded (US) end users from being involved in “commercial scale” operations.
Article 2.18.3, 3bis & 3ter: Enforcement Procedures in the Digital Environment (ISP safe harbour provisions)

A lot of progress was made, with ISPs qualifying for safe harbour more easily.
2.18.3(a): Obligations of ISP non-liability
ISP non-liability seemed optional for certain routine actions or those outside their control.
Everyone (except CH) now agrees that ISPs will not be liable at least for some routine actions or those outside their control (the details of which are mostly similar from the April to July draft).
2.18.3(b) Conditions for ISP non-liability in cases of temporary storage
The wording describing this temporary storage scenario was more vague in the April draft, was presented in several options and had more conditions associated with it.
Temporary storage is only conditioned on the ISP removing the material after notice that the offending material has been removed from the originating site.
2.18.3(c) Conditions for ISP non-liability in cases of linking users to offending material
As in the case of temporary storage above, in the April draft these conditions were presented in several options and had more conditions associated with it.
When linking an ISP will not be liable so long as they fulfill conditions:
1) ISP must not get direct financial gain
2) ISP must remove access to material once they get notice of alleging infringing material and there is no refutation from subscriber who posted the material
3) ISP must not have actual knowledge of the infringement

Article 2.18.4: Enforcement Procedures in the Digital Environment (Anti-circumvention provisions)
Unauthorized circumvention was prohibited
Substantially less circumvention is prohibited in the July draft:
-Only unauthorized circumvention which is carried out knowingly (or with reasonable grounds to know) is prohibited
- “unauthorized circumvention of copy control” (per footnote 56)  need not be prohibited

Article 2.18.X: Exceptions
Formerly 2 options regarding exceptions, the second of which was broader and did not contain a limitation precluding impairing legal adequacy.
ACTA parties have largely agreed on this wording to allow for exceptions which don't impair adequacy/effectiveness of protection.

Sydney Morning Herald
It's our duty to delve into the Wikileaks debate
Irish Times
I HAVE written a great deal in this column about “open source software”, a term coined by technologist Christine Peterson in 1998 to describe software that ...
WikiLeaks and Information StrategyHuffington Post (blog)
Pentagon: WikiLeaks Endangers Soldiers, AfghansCBS News
We should be thankful for WikiLeaksCNN International
GigaOm (blog) -SodaHead News -Poynter.org
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SAP has changed its mind about open source: exec
ITWorld Canada
One analyst thinks this is good for SAP's inflexible image SAP AG's relationship with open source today is much less conservative than it used to be and ...
Career Watch: Creative Excuses for tardinessITWorld Canada

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KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers. Read more here

Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security consultant. The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID. BBC News

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has distributed invites to an exclusive media event in New York, where it's expected to show off the first device to run the brand new BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 6. CIO.com offers predictions for how the event will unfold.

The GNOME foundation and the LiMo group announced a partnership to help push Linux forward in the consumer field. The only notice that anyone has seem to have taken is mockery. So why can someone announce some dedication to promoting open source software in the mobile space and generate no enthusiasm in the mobile space? Android.