Date: 12/06/07     Keywords: linux

Ted Ts'o, a Linux kernel file maintainer who works for IBM outside Boston, will spend the next two years with the Linux Foundation as chief platform strategist.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196215267/

Date: 12/06/07     Keywords: linux

You finally have all the components in terms of features, functionality and device support coming together to make the Linux desktop similar to Windows Vista, and even the Mac OS X

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196205179/

Date: 12/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

In the end contests like this re-establish proprietary business relationships that open source seeks to tear down. Maybe they're as natural as predator and prey. Maybe I'm just being a Scrooge.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/195575007/

Date: 12/05/07     Keywords: microsoft

While accessibility is a niche market, it has proven inordinately useful to Microsoft in establishing its proprietary formats as industry standards. Perhaps with this donation, Eclipse can start to take that advantage away.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/195559839/

Date: 12/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

What we have is a shortage of competition. The answer is for We The People, through our government, to demand competition. As our forefathers did over a century ago. As was done 20 years ago by a Republican Administration.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/194999448/

Date: 12/04/07     Keywords: google

Hopefully Vodafone, and Verizon, will get a clue and offer more cooperation to Google's Android, further opening their networks. They might also deliver a true Internet experience, rather than the walled garden of data services Verizon is noted for.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/194981968/

Date: 12/04/07     Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

Centeris has renamed itself Likewise Software and launched Likewise Open, aimed at making major Linux distributions "first class citizens" in Microsoft Active Directory systems.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/194976439/

Date: 12/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

If jobs become harder to come by, will this half-a-loaf approach still hold, or will out-of-work developers wrest control through their own coding?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/194470958/

Date: 12/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

Process can be just as open source as code.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/194454133/

Date: 12/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

It may seem paradoxical to assert that iron control of an open source project hurts it, but that's the lesson of the last several years. Has Sun really learned this?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/193921562/

Date: 12/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

The Mono project’s leader and GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza was kind enough to pass along a number of news tidits from Mono Summit 2007, held last week in Barcelona. First, the open source organization, sponsored by Novell, decided to separate the source code into three chunks: ECMA Core, Server and Desktop. “Before we were [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/193689639/

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

It is in the government's best interest to guarantee a Network outcome rather than a wireless Internet. With proprietary networks, the value lies in their spectrum. On the Internet value lies elsewhere -- hardware, sites, and the economic growth created by people making full use of the spectrum.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/193004249/

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

One Boston-area enterprise application software vendor detailed its transformation from a proprietary company into a purely open source ISV – at Microsoft’s local headquarters last night. Aras Corp, of Andover, Mass, decided last January to begin offering its commercially established multi-platform product lifecycle management (PLM) and business process management (BPM) software using an open source model, [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/193001434/

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

The political impact of Verizon's moves will be to reduce the demand for open spectrum, and assure a high-enough price at the coming auction that the winner will have to extract high fees from users for accessing the resulting service.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/192981584/

Date: 11/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Already a Windows Torrent product is on Version 2.0, and given the video capability of the iPhone it's clear Apple is not going to let this opportunity pass by. A Symbian Torrent program is on Version 1.3.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/192534626/

Date: 11/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Openness enables free access to evil as well as to good. It depends for its maintenance on the goodwill and maturity of the user community. This is often too much to ask, even in the best of households.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/192469371/

Date: 11/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Bell apologists like Scott Cleland will doubtless call Kushnick a mere "Bell critic" but their own attacks should be met by stern questions about whether Kushnick's facts are wrong and, if so, specifically where they are wrong.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/192455627/

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

Since this is now part of a bankruptcy case, any court finding would have to be approved by the bankruptcy judge, and SCO's Darl McBride is already threatening an appeal, claiming Judge Dale Kimball is often over-ruled.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/191960591/

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

I'll have my own predictions here later next month, but I will summarize everyone else's thusly. These are the problems of growth. These are the kinds of problems you want to have.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/191955204/

Date: 11/28/07     Keywords: linux

At least one Nigerian is upset about the recently released XO, a low-cost Linux laptop designed by Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child Foundation for developing nations. Published reports say Ade Oyegbola, founder and CEO of Nigerian-based Lagos Analysis Corp. has filed a lawsuit against the foundation in Nigeria for allegedly ripping off his multilingual [...]

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