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Rich Internet plug-in technology to get open source analysis framework at Mix10 conference.

A deep and detailed survey by Focus.com concludes that the best job in the United States is a tech job: systems engineer. No. 2: physician assistant. No. 3: college professor.

Once again, Google has bought something only to open source it.
This time it’s ReMail, first acquired, then put on Google Code as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

XML co-creator Tim Bray has joined the exodus from Oracle and landed at Google, as a “developer advocate” for the Android.
Bray, who like tech titans Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, was born in 1955 (as was this humble blogger), is now expected to be a much more familiar face to reporters, contrasting what he calls Android’s open development vision with the Apple iPhone’s &#8220

The Mozilla Foundation will re-write its Mozilla Public License to make it more compatible with Apache and more globally acceptable.
Mozilla is best known for its Firefox browser. (Picture from Wikimedia.)
Call it one small step by a licensor, one giant leap against license proliferation.
The most important result may be to make it easy for Google Code contributions to move into the browser.

Key members of the Sun Drizzle team have recently joined Rackspace. This is great news for Drizzle users, but it also begins positioning Rackspace as an enterprise software provider for the next decade.read more

Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly.

The world of Linux applications continues to expand and improve, so check out Eric Geier's roundup of ten great Linux applications you might not have discovered yet: media players, Web page designer, video creation, run Linux on Windows, Windows apps on Linux, and more.