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Guest Post: Financing, By and For Developers

by Guest Editor on Mar 10, 2010

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On March 19th, in conjunction with PayPalX, Sun Microsystems, Embarkons.com and session sponsor Cooley Godward Kronish, developers, lawyers and financers will be gathering at the Peer Financing for Developers conference in Menlo Park, California. The goal of the conference is to examine new and innovative approaches to peer financing of projects.

The half day conference will take place at Sun Microsystems' campus,and interested attendees can get tickets at peerfinancing.eventbrite.com. OStatic readers can also get $20 off the cost of a $95 general admission ticket by using the code "OS20." We asked Trevor Cornwell, founder of Embarkons.com, which focuses on peer financing for developers, to write a guest column on the topic. You can find it here, below the fold.

Former Sun CEO Takes Tech Titans to Task Over Patent Trolling

by Sam Dean on Mar 10, 2010

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Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz only recently announced his departure from Oracle, following its acquisition of Sun, via a quirky haiku posted on Twitter, and now he is providing juicy details of his historical run-ins with technology heavyweights. Schwartz was always well-known as a blogger during his tenure at Sun, and he now writes on a blog titled "What I Couldn't Say..." Among other things, he details crossing paths with both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates regarding patents and royalties.

A Bright Future for Drizzle

by Joe Brockmeier on Mar 10, 2010

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It seems like there's been little but bad news and resignations coming from Oracle since it finally managed to close the deal on Sun. Finally, there's good news in that Drizzle seems to have a bright future ahead. It just isn't with Oracle.

Turns out, there's plenty of interest in the fledgling database project. Specifically Rackspace is investing heavily in Drizzle for its Rackspace Cloud. Jay Pipes, Monty Taylor, Eric Day, Lee Bieber, and Stewart Smith have all landed over at the hosting company to work on Drizzle. According to Pipes, Rackspace sees Drizzle as the answer to problems that MySQL can't solve:

Wear Your Linux Pride on Your Sleeve, Linux.com Launches New Store

by Lisa Hoover on Mar 09, 2010

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If you've been longing to wrap your baby, significant other, or even your coffee in Linux-y goodness, now you can -- while supporting a valuable FOSS community resource at the same time. Linux.com launched a new store filled with all kinds of geeky t-shirts, baby onesies, mugs, and other fun paraphernalia.

The Linux.com Store carries goodies bearing clever phrases only a geek would understand, ("Fresh Kernels," anyone?), cool Tux logos, and sticker sets to adorn your laptop. All profits go to furthering Linux Foundation activities, strategies and goals.

Electronic Frontier Foundation Examines, Stomps On iPhone Developer Agreement

by Lisa Hoover on Mar 09, 2010

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More than 100,000 app developers have reportedly signed the iPhone Development Program License Agreement allowing them write software for the iPhone, however few people outside the inner circle of developers have ever seen the documents thanks to a non-disclosure clause included in the agreement.When NASA released the NASA App for iPhone, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) seized the opportunity to get a copy from the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act.

The EFF scoured the pages and released a fascinating look at the agreement, teasing out some of its finer points for closer inspection.