There are two worthwhile events worth mentioning. The first is the one-year anniversary of Java as a (en route) GPL-licensed project. Here is a nice short video (among a series) which touches on that.
A year ago this week Sun finally bowed to pressure and agreed to make Java a free, open source project. It was an odd move given Sun's strong resistance to making Java open source for a more than a decade.
In the past few days (or months) we also found the following news:
All the stories above go beyond the scope of this Web site, so they won't be discussed further. The big news today is Dell's OEMing that involves servers with Solaris.
More curious, however, is the following news suggesting a GPLv3 embrace at Sun Microsystems. This is encouraging for a variety of reasons, including the effects on licensing of the Linux kernel (it could be pushed to GPLv3).
XVM consists of two components: xVM Server, a hypervisor with support for Linux, Solaris and Windows guest operating systems; and xVM Ops Center, a management console. The Ops Center project will be released under the open source GPLv3 license, and Sun has set up a community site at [www.openxVM.org].
All signs indicate that Microsoft wants to "exit" the XBox business (not brand), but it does not want to publicly admit this as it would alarm staff and shareholders
Considering the huge proportion of Web requests that come from LLM bots (more so this past year or two), statCounter may struggle to justify the operating costs
The corporate media is projecting or signalling its own dishonesty when it tells us that Microsoft is a very "valuable" company while the data shows Microsoft is also a "market leader" in layoffs
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
