OASIS Patent Policy Threatens Open Source- February 28, 2005 Quite a few folks, myself included, have signed a letter opposing a patent policy being adopted by OASIS, a major industry consortium that produces e-business and Web services standards, that threatens to undermine the development and licensing model for open source software. Discussions are ensuing with the hope of...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000869.html Jef Raskin, R.I.P.- February 28, 2005 Jef Raskin, who named and created Apple's Macintosh project, passed away yesterday. He was an original thinker whose designs were never completely realized and an ardent, original, often contrarian advocate for radically re-thinking and improving information appliances for regular folks. I met Jef in 1980 while I was working at...http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000868.html |