Open Source Business

June 13, 2006

Cranky customer forces Amazon patent review

Filed under: patents — tina @ 12:25 am

Peter Calveley is an actor who went through the motions to provide animation for the computer-generated orcs and elves in the “Lord of the Rings” film series. Last year, he generated a motion to have the Amazon one-click patent re-examined, and last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) agreed to have another look at the patentability of the controversial technology. (more…)

OSUOSL Splunks its logs

Filed under: closed source, open source, open standards, universities — tina @ 12:21 am

A unique closed-source network monitoring product called Splunk is helping the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) further its mission to “accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe.” (more…)

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