links for 2007-11-07

Google’s open-source mobile platform: the best of the blog chatter | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET Blogs

“I guess I don’t see the conflict here. At all. The stack runs on top of Linux. Linux is GPL. The stack is not.” – the question is what’s being distributed, and how what is distributed is being licensed.

(tags: mattasay apache gpl fsf opensource android google)
The Global Sympathetic Audience – New York Times

interesting look at the growing cultural importance of social networking tools

(tags: twitter pownce social networking newyorktimes via:bree)