Blogging Roller

Today, I've got a couple of additions to my powered-by-Roller list:

• GMJ Designs : Apache Roller 4.0 Released
  "I love the interface and it works great."
• Toast Technology Blogs : Weblog
  SOA and business portal consultancy blogging with Roller
• Limlom.com company blog
  Business solutions and J2EE consultancy blogging with Roller
• Biblical Recorder journals
  Blogs and Baptist Planet all powered by Roller

More about the opening of the Social Networking platforms of the world:

• Dare Obasanjo: Thoughts on the Opening of the Facebook Platform
  "looks like Facebook plans to assert their Intellectual Property rights on anyone who clones their platform"
• OpenSocial API Blog: Let's get this Shindig started
  "We're thrilled to tell you the initial commit to the Shindig repository is in"
• Ruminating on DiSo and the public domain
  "I’m hopeful about projects like Shindig that call themselves “open source” and are able to be sponsored by stringent organizations like the Apache foundation. But..."

And some more about the intersection of corporate interests and community open source:

• InfoWorld: Open source and the corporate elephant (FOSS.IN coverage)
  Danese Cooper: "Having a well-read blog is the best defense you can have against any problems you may encounter"
• eWeek: Sun Open-Source Support Questioned
  "The only reason anyone should be surprised by anything Sun does with [the open-source projects] it controls is because that person has fundamentally created an expectation that access to source code meant more than just that—and that is a flawed assumption."
• Reg Developer: Bruce Perens on the OpenDS spat
  "In general open source is only going to work if you let it be a community led project. Sun has had a hard time learning this, and some of their open source projects have had a hard time getting outside contributors, because Sun has insisted on owning the [project]"