Kev's Development Toolbox

Torvalds has been subpoenaed to appear in court in the SCO suit against IBM.

Torvalds current employer, the Open Source Development Lab have said they will pay his legal fees.

Bruce Perens, leader of the Debian Linux community, has announced that he is planning to release a free version of Linux named UserLinux, based on Debian, that will compete with RedHat’s Enterprise edition version of Linux.

RedHat recently announced that they will be dropping their free distribution of RedHat Linux instead to focus on their commercial Enterprise edition versions of RedHat Linux.

Object Computing Inc have a good paper on their site giving an overview and code walkthrough using Hibernate, the open source persistence mechanism.

Lawyers acting on behalf of The JBoss Group have sent a letter to the Apache Foundation, stating that some source code contained in the Geronimo project is ‘substantially similar’ to JBoss source code.

The Geronimo project is Apache’s upcoming complete J2EE spec implementation.