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OSS Is Changing The Game

Zack, the three examples you give appear to me as signs that OSS is under attack by vendors who don't gork the value of an open community & the customer value delivered. Yep, even the MSFT deal with Zend.

More Open Source Blogs

Alex Fletcher, an analyst from Entiva Group is asking why IBM doesn't have more blogs devoted to OSS projects that IBMers participates in. He points to the easily findable blogs from Sun employees who work on NetBeans & GlassFish as examples for what he'd like to see from IBM.

Reconsidering The Value Of OSS Indemnification

With Microsoft agreeing not to sue Novell SLES Support Subscription customers for patent infringement issues, maybe it's time to reconsider the value of OSS indemnification?

OSS Trickle Down

If I understand Dana's point correctly here, he's saying that as open source vendors start getting a larger part of the corporate IT budget, less money is spent on commercial vendors, thereby reducing how much those commercial vendors have to spend on R&D for future innovations.

SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail Launched For Variety of OSs

Skype has launched the public beta of SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail, available in the latest download versions of Skype software for Linux, MAC OS X, Pocket PC and Windows platforms.