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Lots of chatter around the blogosphere today about the Chrome End User License Agreement (EULA).  Good reason to be concerned about intimidating, privacy-challenged language like this:

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services.”

Or, this:

“The software which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Google. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Google to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the services.”

Google has since backed off and is claiming that this was all a big mistake.  Which is nice, but in reality there wasn’t any reason to get all tied up in knots over this.

Chrome is all open source.  You can download the source right here.

If you don’t like the license, grab the source compile it and use it unrestricted. Distribute binaries if you like.

I’m not surprised that there are still lot of people that don’t fully understand open source. Although I was a little surprised that Matt didn’t mention this….

Happy to say that Network World’s list of 10 Open Source Company’s to Watch was released today and we made the list….
Here’s the entire list:

Kickfire
Marketcera
Vyatta
Sonatype
Untangle
Qumranet
Xaware
SnapLogic
Aquia
OpenMoko

Check it out.

Read today about a study that models the effects of non-compete clauses in employment agreements and how the resulting labor mobility helped Silicon Valley grow faster and ultimately surpass Route 128.
The conclusions come in a paper by April Franco and Matthew Mitchell. The husband-and-wife team wanted to understand why the highly-successful technology region known [...]

Words indeed matter.
The big news today in open source land was that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued its decision in the Jacobsen v. Katzer case. The case began as a patent infringement suit against Jacobsen and the authors of the open source software. Jacobsen then countersued claiming, among other [...]

CIO magizine reports on a recent survey by Forrester indicates that integration remains the number one inhibitor for Enterprises adopting SaaS.
This comes as no surprise to me.
We’ve been talking to all the large hosted application providers and they all say the same thing: My subscribers have data inside their organization and [...]