Archive for January, 2009

GPL Round 1: FSF vs Cisco

Published by
Brendan Lawlor
at January 7, 2009 in Business & Technology and OSS. 0 Comments

It’s hard to believe it, but despite the fact that the FSF has been around for more than 20 years, their recently filed suit against Cisco is the very first time that they will test their ability to uphold their copyright under GPL and LGPL in a court of law.

The Free Software Foundation, headed by Richard Stallman, is the copyright holder for a number of software modules including GCC and the Gnu C Library. These modules are at the centre of a long-standing disagreement between the FSF and Cisco. After 5 years of working with Cisco to ‘help’ them towards compliance, Stallman and Co. have finally spat the dummy and called in the lawyers.
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Problems with Consuming many WCF Services in One Application

Published by
anthony geoghegan
at January 6, 2009 in .Net, Architecture and Project Management. 0 Comments

Recently, while developing a Web Application with a large development team, we initially encountered problems with keeping the many WCF interfaces consistent between the Client and Server applications. Because of parallel development, both Client and Server applications developed a sort of race condition. Client Application’s were typically built against older generations of the WCF interface. It was difficult to ensure that each locally developed Client Interface matched the current, deployed Service Interface.
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