Apple vs Otis, FRAND vs FLOSS

I was pointed at Apple vs Otis in the UK Courts. This is an NPE suing Apple for its non-permitted use of a standards essential patent. The court backs Otis and is now assessing a fair licence agreement. Apple say that if it considers it unfair, they’ll with draw from the UK. There is, of…

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Auction & Markets, the software

I came back to open source auction software again, it’s really important and seems to have been enclosed, particularly around SaaS services or by the Investment Banks and Financial Exchanges. Not aimed at the largest scale, but here are some notes …

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Glassfish

Glassfish was Sun’s open source application server. This was written in 2009 and at some point Sun/Oracle shit canned it. These notes are no longer worthwhile and I have marked the article as deprecated. If you want to see what I said, then you can read more …

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