Word keeps spreading in successively broader circles.
Meanwhile, if you are following this issue and have not yet subscribed to Al Essa’s blog, do yourself a favor and do so right away. His series of posts dissecting the patent continue to edify.
Tag: Tim-OReilly
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The Blackboard Patent Crisis at Two and a Half Weeks
While marveling the events of the last several weeks, Jim Farmer suggested that it might be worthwhile to pause and reflect back on the sequence of events. I thought that was a good idea, so here it is. I don’t claim that it is any sense a definitive history. To the contrary, it’s just my personal experience of the situation. But it taught me something, so I thought it might be worth sharing. (more…)
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NextGen Macromedia Flash Tool "Zorn" to Run on Eclipse
This is interesting. According to Tim O’Reilly, Macromedia’s next Flash authoring tool will be built on the Eclipse Open Source IDE project. Eclipse’s offshoot, the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, has been used for a number of interesting online learning applications via the RELOAD project. (I’d love to see them add a QTI editor to the mix….)
At any rate, Macromedia’s move is just another example of how the line is blurring between OSS and closed source. And again, I largely think this is a good thing.