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The H Open asks who's responsible for troubleshooting and quality assurance: "Recently, a Red Hat developer got rid of a flaw in an Intel graphics driver, probably for a special corporate customer. For years, the flaw had been a thorn in the side of numerous users of systems with the 945GM chip-set. Now, Theodore 'tytso' Tso has stated in a discussion on LKML that users have to accept more responsibility for troubleshooting and quality assurance."

We are extremely lucky to have the support of so many who are individual members of the Linux Foundation. Their  $99/year membership helps ensure we can continue  protecting, promoting and advancing Linux and support the work of Linus Torvalds himself.

This FOSSBazaar working group is defining a specification to enable companies and organizations to share license and component information (metadata) for software package and related content with the aim of facilitating license and other policy compliance.

Currently, the specification is private to those participating in the working group. We are working towards making it public Q4 2010. In the meantime, you can get an overview of SPDX from this article in Dr. Dobb's.

Glyn Moody wonders what would happen if Oracle bought every open source company: "It would give Oracle control over a wide range of applications that it could use against its main rivals. Even if it did not make much money from these open source offerings, it could reduce the amount others made from their high-cost proprietary applications. That, in turn, would reduce their scope for competitive action against Oracle."