02.01.08
Another New Addition to the AGPLv3 (Wikidot)
Not much has happened since our last update on GPLv3, but among the additions which continue to come at a steady pace we now have Wikidot
A great wiki engine behind Wikidot.com is now free software as Wikidot Inc owners: Pieter Hintjens and Piotr Frąckowiak released the code on AGPLv3 license just today. This is great news for the Internet as Wikidot is one of the most advanced wiki engines out there, leaving MediaWiki and TWiki far behind.
Here is the press release. Welcome to the *GPLv3 family, Wikidot. For those who do not know, a lot of FFII’s Web presence is based on this software. █




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Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys.
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft.
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.