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Intense interest in Microsoft Office standard
Date: 12/14/07
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The underlying question remains this. Is standards-setting a judicial or a political process? Even if it is a judicial process, should such a process ignore politics, or be informed by it?
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/200400372/
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Follow the money in SMB open source market
Date: 12/14/07
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Among open source vendors only IBM has the infrastructure needed to support open source in the channel, to go toe-to-toe with what Ballmer has wrought, and they remain the primary beneficiaries of open source in the SMB market.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/200308042/
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Browser battle v2: Opera’s complaint about Microsoft IE may fly in Europe
Date: 12/13/07
Keywords: browser, microsoft
It’s the brower war v. 2.0.
No doubt, Opera’s antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft today to the European Commission is causing huge headaches in Redmond.
The Norwegian company, whose pioneering open source browser rose to prominence on mobile devices, claims that the company’s integration of IE with Windows is anti-competitive and that it is [...]
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199985183/
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Wal-Mart PC was a sell-out
Date: 12/13/07
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I'm holding my breath for Everex to conduct a full accounting, and the result won't come in a press release. It will come in future products.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199786789/
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Has Movable Type gone open source too late?
Date: 12/13/07
Keywords: rss, software, google
Google, the inventor of RSS, and the most plugged-in man on the planet all competing in this growing software market. So who won? Some 23 year old kid out of Houston.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199770707/
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FireFox 3 beta 2 scheduled for availability Dec. 21
Date: 12/13/07
Keywords: browser
Firefox 3 beta 2 is now scheduled to be available to the public on December 21, Mozilla developers say.
The browser code is now in the quality assurance phase and will enjoy its first round of scrutiny during a test day being held on December 14. If all goes well, it will be made available to [...]
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199763822/
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Adobe responds to Appcelerator with open source BlazeDS
Date: 12/13/07
Keywords: software
Adobe has responded to the announcement of Appcelerator by open sourcing BlazeDS, the messaging software for its Flex development tool.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199742172/
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Gates’ Microsoft future of intense interest
Date: 12/12/07
Keywords: microsoft
Those hoping for a peace between Microsoft and open source are going to be disappointed.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199234789/
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Why Sourceforge lost its mojo
Date: 12/12/07
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By getting full information on initial downloaders, commercial open source developers learn who might contribute code, who might buy a license and who is just poking around.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199226769/
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Fleury’s back and SOA’s got him
Date: 12/12/07
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The target in this case is Adobe Flex, a proprietary framework for creating Rich Internet Applications
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/199219313/
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Projity exanding open source, Saas attack against Microsoft Project
Date: 12/11/07
Keywords: microsoft
Projity is turning up the heat on its SaaS and open source attack on Microsoft Project.
The San Mateo, Calif. company is launching next week the next major release of its commercial project management service, Project-ON-Demand.
Projity is also looking to expand its footprint in the open source space with support programs for its OpenProj desktop, [...]
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/198636262/
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Nokia dismisses Google Android threat at its peril
Date: 12/11/07
Keywords: google
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, "Olli-mandias" and CEO of Nokia, sneeringly dismisses Google's Android effort with a figurative wave of the hand.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/198636264/
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The best open source development model
Date: 12/11/07
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Michael's point, and it's one I think Matt agrees with, is that Eclipse will draw more willing participation than any Sun project, regardless of license. The reason is the independence and credibility of Eclipse as viewed by the developer.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/198621533/
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Social networking and the open business revolution
Date: 12/10/07
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It's in thinking about it, worrying about it, and making use of it in building companies where social networking sites will make their revolution, not on Wall Street.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/198139373/
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OpenProj was 10th most-popular post here for 2007
Date: 12/10/07
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When we talked to CEO Marc O'Brien he said a license had not yet been chosen. Eventually the Common Public Attribution License was chosen. This license was approved by the OSI in July.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/198102156/
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The Corporatenet will be a big 2008 trend
Date: 12/10/07
Keywords: technology
The technology and incentives are all in place to transform today's Internet into tomorrow's Corporatenet, where your every online move is monitored, and where your ISP will also look to take commercial advantage of what you do.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/198094842/
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Just don’t call it trolling, Verizon
Date: 12/07/07
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Once it has reduced its liability to the minimum its lawyers are comfortable with, Verizon will settle. Expect that to happen long before this hits a courtroom.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196776870/
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Is open just another word for nothing left to lose?
Date: 12/07/07
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But open, meaning you can use a variety of devices to spend money with someone on the network frequencies they are controlling, due to a monopoly agreement with a government they paid for? That's about as open as the old railroads. A more fitting analogy for the Second Gilded Age.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196749713/
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Can Sourceforge marketplace open the cash drawer?
Date: 12/07/07
Keywords: software
Memo to Sourceforge. Concentrate on the software, rather than the relationships. Relationships are for the people in them. Software is something you know.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196727153/
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Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
Date: 12/06/07
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"The days of open standards development are fast disappearing. Instead we are getting 'standardization by corporation', something I have been fighting against for the 20 years I have served on ISO committees," wrote Martin Bryan.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196257199/