Date: 09/12/07     Keywords: web

The Association of American Publishers have launched a Web site, PRISM, which aims to convince lawmakers that "Public access equals government censorship."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155526070/

Date: 09/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

You’ve seen all these VMWare announcements? Look at these as two paths for OEMs. Most will choose both, I believe. The deals VMWare announced are non-exclusive. We’re talking to the same people.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155167555/

Date: 09/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

IBM will help develop collaboration features for the open source desktop of the future but it’s not clear how much of Notes — if any — will find its way into OpenOffice. On Monday, Big Blue announced that it has joined OpenOffice – a major open source project led by its rival Sun – and [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155103282/

Date: 09/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

The new Solaris, 10 8/07, is here. The announcement coincides with the company's OpenSolaris Day event in Boston.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155091966/

Date: 09/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

What OpenOffice needs to really take on its larger rival is leadership, professional leadership, paid leadership that will focus the group's resources on the task at hand, and develop a strategy aimed at gaining market share. Mozilla has that. OpenOffice does not.

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Date: 09/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

IBM has finally taken the big leap to support rival Sun’s OpenOffice.org project, a move that could have significant impact on the adoption of the open source Office suite. As part of that commitment, announced Monday, IBM released its first code contributions from Lotus Notes such as accessibility enhancements. But more important, the Armonk, NY company, [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/154676173/

Date: 09/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Why can't you get more bits? Because the phone companies don't make money from just "bits." They make money from "services" -- phone services, cable services, wireless services. That's how they want the Internet to work.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/154630269/

Date: 09/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

What is most impressive is how clean the code is in operation. Usually you see "pre-release" and go, woah! But nothing has broken, everything is running fine, despite the fact that this version number is 0.1a21 and I can break just about anything -- ask my wife or my computer guy.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/154625027/

Date: 09/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

Thunderbird backers are hoping that the soon-to-be-released “Penelope” add on will improve its prospects in the open source e-mail arena. The first beta of the “Penelope” open source Eudora client based on Mozilla’s Thunderbird debuted this week, less than a year after Qualcomm announced its intention to get out of the commercial e-mail business. [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/153546481/

Date: 09/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

The Bush Administration reversed policies which, in other countries, have been proven to work. Instead of competition, we have a duopoly, which hands out bandwidth through a straw, which defines all bits as "services" it controls, and which must be forced to change through political struggle.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/153516369/

Date: 09/07/07     Keywords: linux

Following delivery of a petition with 16,000 names on it, Brown only suggested that the BBC Trust itself was agreeing to support Mac and Linux iPlayers, and said the government would review its decision over the next six months.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/153499225/

Date: 09/06/07     Keywords: no keywords

Proprietary firms can end contracts, change contracts, close off upgrades, and that's business. Open source firms can't, because what's dropped can easily be forked, and because they rely so heavily upon the kindness of strangers.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/152978289/

Date: 09/05/07     Keywords: web, linux, microsoft

Microsoft is cooperating with Novell on a project code-named “Moonlight” to port its Silverlight web development tool to Linux. On its face, this is big news because it is Microsoft’s first real contribution to the open source desktop, reports Miguel de Icaza, of GNOME fame, and one of Novell’s top desktop developers. Microsoft, after [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/152544236/

Date: 09/05/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

The real question Linux advocates need to answer is this. Can you go Microsoft-free and still get your work done?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/152536932/

Date: 09/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

Once broadband resources are in place, anyone can develop and anyone can compete. You may be frightened by this. But these are the forces unleashed by open source and the Internet. They exert themselves 24-7.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/152525152/

Date: 09/04/07     Keywords: xml, microsoft

Microsoft lost its effort to win "fast track" approval of its OOXML (which it calls Open XML) as an international standard, but you wouldn't know that from reading much of the press coverage.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/152077330/

Date: 09/04/07     Keywords: microsoft

Despite the "good news" of its win over SCO, and its deal with Microsoft, Novell continues to lose money. Millions of dollars each quarter.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/152059315/

Date: 09/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

If you want to build your forge communities you need professional managers who can make newcomers feel welcome, tease contributions of all kinds out of members, and stomp on the flamers.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/152048016/

Date: 08/31/07     Keywords: technology

Schools which got burned by courseware in the 1990s are now burning themselves with censorware, delivering a neutered Internet experience and teachers who are as skittish about technology today as they were 25 years ago. It's hard to see how open source will change this. Free access to resources won't matter if your kids' view of it is worse than that in China.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/150540183/

Date: 08/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

If computing is like a YMCA, and open source is a sloped pool, Mark Radcliffe is the swimming instructor. He gets companies comfortable with the water, he makes sure they feel safe, and after a while they're swimming in the deep end.

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