25 May 07 - 06:47OpenLDAP on Windows

Lots of questions come up on various mailing lists about building OpenLDAP on Microsoft Windows™ and about packaged versions of OpenLDAP for Windows. We at Symas do our best to answer them, but I got tired of seeing the questions and the varying answers from other sources. I decided to do a little survey to see what's available in the form of packaged distributions. The results of that survey are below, but first I want to comment on building OpenLDAP on Windows. (more)

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14 May 07 - 10:36Microsoft Patent Move

Well, when you have nothing else better to do, threaten a patent law suit?

Why would Microsoft declare war on its biggest and best users? Symas wants to know. We doubt OpenLDAP is at any particular risk but then, when they won't reveal what they have up their sleeves, we should all shake in our boots. (more)

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11 May 07 - 00:46The Real Story of Open Source

This blog entry quotes the Word Press guy in an anthem to Open Source and doing it because you care. It is a complete quote of the text from the original posting. (more)

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08 May 07 - 04:22"Sun: Pay open-source developers"

An article reporting a speech caught our eye.The title encapsulates much of the challenge for us. And we thought Open Source Software developers were getting paid. Some, not all. Even Sun is paying "open-source developers"!?

We, at Symas, hope he was misunderstood or misquoted. It is better to be charitable. Still, well, ... read on.

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