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GPL Sneakiness Wins Again

As reported in Groklaw and on the plaintiff's blog, Skype has decided to withdraw its appeal against a 2007 German court decision that found it was violating the terms of the GPL. What's interesting here is not the scale of Skype's problems (they were shipping mobile devices without including the required source code, or an offer to send it, with the device), but that things played out in court pretty much as the original GPL designers would have liked.


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OpenMoko Open-Source Mobile, coming soon

Original Post authored by Paul Kapustka on 3/1/2007 on GigaOM

BURLINGAME, Calif. - Can the power of open source be harnessed into the form factor of a cellular phone? That's the question Taiwan-based OpenMoko hopes to answer positively, when it starts to roll out its OpenMoko platform and phones later this year.



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Digium, Fonality in "Free" IP PBX Fight

Original Post authored by Paul Kapustka on 1/25/2007 on GigaOM

Open-source IP PBXs were supposed to target the incumbent telephony world's lunch. But right now the Asterisk community finds itself in a food fight over the free, small-installation market, between upstart Fonality and the house of Asterisk itself, Digium.



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