SearchOpenSource: The Open Source Year in Review
[ Thanks to Jane
Walker for this link. ]
“Analysts and users alike saw victories for open source software
(OSS) in 2005 in the areas of personal productivity applications,
customer relationship management (CRM) and databases, where open
source vendors such as MySQL gained some ground on proprietary
stalwarts like Oracle Corp.“But even as the open source movement gained momentum in 2005,
other events–like the political brouhaha over OpenDocument in
Massachusetts and SuSE provider Novell Inc.’s well publicized
personnel cuts–were less encouraging to the open source
community…”
vnunet: 2005 Review of the Year: Open Source
“The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) opened the Patents
Commons Reference Library in November, providing an overview of
patents that have been pledged towards open source. OSDL’s chief
was quoted as saying that the open source patent was hereby
diffused.“During the past year corporate Linux supporters from IBM to
Philips have scrambled to support Linux, pledging that they will
not enforce their patents against the open source operating system
and, in some cases, to open source in general…”