Microsoft sues Motorola. Oracle says no to LibreOffice. Time to fork Java? And more.
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# Microsoft is suing Motorola over alleged Android patent infringements.
# Oracle confirmed to SJVN that it will not be working with the Document Foundation on LibreOffice.
# Sean Michael Kerner reported that Red Hat has settled an alleged patent infringement case with IP firm Acacia Research.
# Greg Luck asked if it is time to fork Java. As did Sacha Labourey.
# Black Duck Software acquired Ohloh.net from Geeknet.
# Samsung confirmed that it is dropping support for Symbian.
# xTuple introduced email integration via Feature Mob sponsored feature offering.
# Dana Blankenhorn reported on the rise of business communities.
# Cloudera is building a two-way connector for high-speed data movement between CDH and Aster Data nCluster.
# Ascensio System announced an AMI of its open source project management and collaboration platform TeamLab.
# Percona launched worldwide 24×7 support for MySQL.
# The Software Freedom Conservancy appointed Bradley M. Kuhn as its full-time Executive Director.
# The Register reported that Canonical is adding OpenStack APIs to Ubuntu.
# An overview of the Linux Foundation’s open compliance program.
# Alfresco released Alfresco Community 3.4 with new tools and services for Spring developers.
# Bernard Golden discussed cloud computing, open source, and the next generation of applications.
# Kitware received an $11m contract from DARPA as part of its Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool program.
# Citrix released XenClient version 1.0.
# Peter Ganten said open core is over.
# Dirk Riehle presented his thoughts on the current state of open source business research and future directions.
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