Archive for October, 2007

Microsoft and Bungie “devolve” relationship

Friday, October 5th, 2007
Microsoft is spinnging Bungie off to be an independent company again. Shane Kim, vice president of Microsoft Game Studios said “We saw ‘Halo 3′ and we were all, like, WTF? This is just Halo 2!! We are *so* *done* with them”.

Harold Ryan, talking head for Bungie was heard to cackle “Hehehehe, the plan *worked*!”

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ActiveCollab becomes ProjectPier

Friday, October 5th, 2007
The ActiveCollab project has gone closed source, so the community took the last open source version and started a new project to take it forward: ProjectPier. This is pretty common in the open source world. The creators of a project decide they want to close the source and go the proprietary route, and the community takes up the open code and continues on.

This is separate from projects like cddb, which was always closed-source, but took it’s community-provided data and closed it and sold it out. it’s called GraceNote now, and like open source projects going closed, a free replacement sprang up: FreeDB.org.

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