Open News Episode 29

A Weekly Open Source News Podcast

Running time	6'23
Computer science content	high
Business content	medium
English language complexity	high

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Sub-areas covered

• News from the IT world
• Open source technologies.

Learning objectives

• to become familiar with recent developments in open source software
• to understand the importance of patents for software
• to know how the OSI institute works in particular cases

Keywords

Suse, Red Hat, Ubuntu

examples of linux distributions

SCO

a software company formerly called Caldera Systems and Caldera Inter- national. After acquiring the Santa Cruz Operation’s Server Software and Services divisions, as well as UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, the company changed its focus to UNIX. Later on, Caldera changed its name to The SCO Group to reflect that change in focus.

software license (licencja na oprogramowanie)

(UK spelling: licence) - there are several important IT licenses like GNU GPL(open source), Mozilla Public License or Microsoft Public License

Firefox

one of the most popular web browsers (after Internet Explorer)

MPL

Microsoft Public Licence

MRL

Microsoft Reciprocal Licence

Summary

This is a podcast with interesting news from the open source community. In this recording we hear about:

• some recent developments in brief
• Patents (the legal battle between MS and RedHat)
• Mozilla’s plans to develop a mobile browser
• OSI’s approval of MS licenses

Jest to podcast z ciekawymi informacjami ze świata open source. W tym materiale możemy usłyszeć kilka krótkich wiadomości:

• patenty i wojna pomiędzy MS a RedHatem
• Mozilla chce wyprodukować wersję przeglądarki na telefony komórkowe
• OSI akceptuje licencje Microsoftu