OSGi Patent Pledge
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eWeek: Group Pledges Free Patent Access to Speed OSGi Adoption
“Five IT companies—including giants IBM, Nokia and Samsung—and the OSGi Alliance announced July 26 that they will pledge royalty-free access to patents they own in an effort to speed the adoption of OSGi standards and Java-based networking software worldwide.”
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Steve Hamm/BusinessWeek: A big shift coming for mobile applications
“The patent pledges help to break a psychological barrier and makes developers much more willing to use the technology. We think it will provide a big boost,” says Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice-president of standards development.
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Heavyweights pledge patents for Java phone updates | CNET News.com
OSGi technology supports installation and update of software on platforms all the way from small devices up to mainframes. It’s not limited to mobile devices.
ODF
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More FUD fighting: “It must be strongly noted that ODF v1.0 ( ISO 26300 ) supports spreadsheet formula functions.”
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Microsoft’s Support for ODF Is Step in the Right Direction
‘The key word here is “eventually.” For now, as we learned in eWEEK Labs’ initial tests of the plug-in, the ODF translator falls short in several key areas.’
Open Source / SOA
