Tag Archive for 'open-source'

Textpattern switches from GPL to BSD license (and why I believe that it doesn’t matter)

24Mar06

Alex Shiels has announced that Textpattern 4.1 will use a BSD-style license instead of the GPL when it is released. Several reasons were provided which can be summarized as the GPL not being well-suited for scripting environments such as PHP, especially for programs which allow for plug-ins.
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Targeting the Compact Framework with SharpDevelop

30Aug03

I’m in a coding state of mind lately, so I decided to dust off an unfinished Compact Framework project. This presented some problems, of course. My Beta installation of VS.NET 2003 expired in June. I have a stand-alone version of VB.NET 2002, not VS.NET 2002, so I’ve been left out in the cold when it […]

Lineo / Embedix acquired by Motorola / Metrowerks

17Dec02

Press release and Linux Devices coverage. Good news in the long-term, Lineo has been on the ropes for a while. Short-term, I’m still not going to hold my breath waiting for a PDA kernel with optimized cache management.




 


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