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June, 21th 2007: OSI: 'Open Source' only for true Open Source Software
Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, talks about protecting the brand Open Source as more and more software vendors abuse this term which misleads the customer. [1]
May, 18th 2007: Collaboration of the Month
Open Source Wiki is featured as Collaboration of the month on central Wikia. Thanks to everyone who voted for it. You are invited to create new articles or join the effort to create a new new logo.
May, 8th 2007: Sun Opens Java
Sun Microsystems passes the desktop development platform for the Java Standard Edition (Java SE JDK) to the OpenJDK Community. The Java-JDK shall now be published as open source software at the conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2, the most commonly used free software license. [2]