OpenNMS has retained Moglen Ravicher, LLC (a for-profit law firm organized by the Software Freedom Law Center and run to support their non-profit operations) to represent us with respect to issues relating to GPL license violations of OpenNMS code by the Cittio Watchtower product. A couple of weeks ago I posted on “Ask Slashdot” my […]
I’ve just returned from an exciting and vibrant show at LinuxWorld Expo UK to be plunged back into the 80 hour weeks with OpenNMS that make up my normal life. It was great to see so many people at the OpenNMS booth and so many people starting to see the advantages of open source software. […]
This morning I went to the bank and paid off a rather large loan. A little over two years ago David and myself put our houses on the line to borrow enough money to purchase the OpenNMS version 1.0 copyright from Raritan. We did this for a number of reasons, not the least of which […]
I sat in on a webinar from Black Duck Software today on managing compliance when using open source software. As someone who has gone through the process of trying to resolve a GPL violation, this is something pretty near and dear to my heart. For those who don’t know, Black Duck provides an application that […]
The following post is a little long, so I figured it might be best to put the “point” upfront. The OpenNMS Group has acquired the copyright to the original OpenNMS code. Thus, for the first time in seven years, all of the OpenNMS copyright is held under one organization. I didn’t start OpenNMS. It was […]
I received an interesting call last week from Gary Read, the CEO of Nimsoft. He informed me that his company was buying the intellectual property assets of Cittio, a company with a rather storied history with respect to OpenNMS. With this acquisition, parts of the Cittio Watchtower product involving Layer 2 discovery, topology and root […]
I woke up this morning to find out that my Slashdot post had been accepted, as well as an e-mail from a friend saying “I hope you’re wearing your fire-retardant underpants today…” I learned early on that to do open source you need a thick skin (there are hundreds of critics willing to tell you […]
I went to the beach this weekend for a short vacation. On the way back I stopped for fuel, and while I was pumping a man came up to me with a sob story about a broken fuel pump and how he needed some money to get home. This happens to me about every three […]
I love my job. I have never been happier than I am working on OpenNMS, and I’m proud of the application as well as the community that supports it. People often ask me about open-source and how it will succeed, and I like to point to the work of the economist John Nash (subject of […]