The technical means for the new product is Open Logic's Deep Discovery product, previously pitched mainly for audit and census work.

If Apple's mobile devices are the future of computing, you can expect that future to be one with more limits on innovation and competition than the PC era that came before.

Having a public, personal face on its Android efforts will be very important to Google, which faces both marketing and legal challenges to its growth in the mobile market from Apple.

The most important result may be to make it easy for Google Code contributions to move into the browser. Google is a big supporter of the Apache license.

Simon "Webmink" Phipps, former chief open source officer, is now free, and his personal blog is now filled with bloggy goodness.

You can argue that Microsoft and open source are two equally valid choices, of course, by noting that the choice has been made already. But because you can see the code, and change the code, with open source, you can recover all of your free will.

SpringSource has announced a new lightweight edition of its open source application development and management server optimized for the virtual datacenter, cloud computing — and VMware products, of course. VMware acquired SpringSource in September. SpringSource’s Apache Tomcat-based server is used by more than half of the Global 2000 companies. The tc Server Spring Edition, which will be [...]

Just as the Internet takes friction out of the distribution and development process, open source for Google removes friction from the business process.

If Apple can settle these suits under favorable terms it can also win patent peace with Microsoft. This would free it to create iPhones as the market directs, rather than within constraints of lawyers and patent rights.

The 10-year-old Mozilla Public License will be updated by the end of 2010. At the open source organization’s weekly meeting Monday, Mozilla Corp president Mitchell Baker announced that the MPL needs to be refreshed. It’s not clear if there will be any major league changes to the hybrid license. It appears that the higher ups want [...]