Date: 01/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

Most of my relatives in Texas didn't know what I was talking about when I mentioned the term. A few had heard of Firefox, fewer still of Open Office.

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Date: 01/01/08     Keywords: no keywords

Nearly all open source development has a commercial aim

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/209527710/

Date: 01/01/08     Keywords: no keywords

The hammering the RIAA took at the hands of bloggers and users over this is a great New Year's present. It reminds me that as it was in the 18th century, so it remains in the 21st. Freedom can only exist where we demand it exist. It is not given, it is taken.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/209505610/

Date: 12/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

It's wrong for open source advocates to see what we do as the only way toward progress, just as it's wrong for closed source executives to launch ideological attacks on us.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/208946895/

Date: 12/31/07     Keywords: linux

In 2008 the media will gin up a "war" between Red Hat and Ubuntu for "control" of Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/208929035/

Date: 12/20/07     Keywords: microsoft

Samba will be a direct beneficiary of Microsoft's agreement to cooperate with the European Union, which was announced today.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/203664474/

Date: 12/20/07     Keywords: google

How far can the idea of "give first, then take" really go, in the real world? Google has the bandwidth, the processing power and the storage to take this idea to the ends of the Earth, and to either prove it or disprove it, once and for all.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/203492417/

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: linux

Dell announced on Tuesday via its corporate blog that it has begun installing Ubuntu 7.10, aka Gutsy Gibbon, and LinDVD on its Dell consumer Linux PCs in the US and will also make it available on the Inspiron 530 in England, France and Germany later this week. Dell began offering consumer systems running Ubuntu in [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202915262/

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Ulteo’s online OpenOffice service will be officially launched to the marketplace to a limited number of subscribers in the first half of 2008, the company’s CEO said. Thierry Koehrlen, CEO of Ulteo, said the company will offer a free version and paid subscription to customers who need premium services. Ulteo, pioneered by Mandriva founder [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202900978/

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Sun launched a new program this week offering back line support for OpenOffice that is targeted at OEMs and distributors. The intent is to provide corporate customers with fixes and patches for unique issues and problems that may affect only a handful of customers, or OpenOffice conflict with particular distributions that may not get fixed by [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202857973/

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Power isn't given up lightly, and a monopoly gives its owner immense power. No matter how nice and warm the present owners of monopoly power may be, you can be sure as night follows day they will be succeeded by folks who are not so nice.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202771031/

Date: 12/19/07     Keywords: software

The deal piles the pressure on Verizon to settle, but the terms of the agreement, while manageable by Monsoon and Xterasys, may prove onorous to a phone company which harps on how "unapproved" software can damage its network.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202754216/

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: technology, linux

The big technology trend of the current day is the merging of markets -- mobile, desktop, server, online -- into one big all-you-can-eat application buffet. Nothing serves that buffet, at every level, as well as Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202274000/

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

The apparent success of GOS in selling-through the channel means we're bound to see more from this duo in the coming year. But it also means we're going to see more activity from Dell, H-P, and the other main PC vendors on desktop Linux, regardless of what that means for their relations with Microsoft.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202261056/

Date: 12/18/07     Keywords: software, crm

A leading open source customer app provider launched a major upgrade of its customer relationship management (CRM) software that features on-demand capabilities, an AJAX e-mail client and enhanced customization. SugarCRM on Monday announced general availability of Sugar 5.0, which underwent three rounds of beta testing by more than 30,000 users, the company claims. SugarCRM, which was [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202247546/

Date: 12/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

How tough would it be to build something like Ribbit, based on Appcelerator, and distribute that under the GPL? That would certainly get the frog into someone's throat.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/201766891/

Date: 12/17/07     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft, I argued, is closer to being Favre than Woods. And the young guns challenging its dominance are all associated with open source. This observation may make it a bit harder to boo Microsoft in the future. But there it is.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/201752396/

Date: 12/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Open source depends upon a level Internet playing field. The Comcast abuse of BitTorrent, an open source protocol, shows how that playing field is already being tilted. The result of this fight may determine the fate of open source.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/201280240/

Date: 12/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

It's an indication of user sentiment that while no one wanted to discuss the news, it drew a rating of +15 from readers who recommended it. The actual bankruptcy petition was filed in September.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/200792008/

Date: 12/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

It's an indication of how far open source has come that SpringSource, formerly Interface21, chose to announce its new Spring Integration product at a five-star resort in Hollywood, Florida.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/200786623/