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Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?
Date: 08/30/07
Keywords: software, microsoft
When Microsoft agreed last fall to distribute Novell "get out of court free" tickets, did it make itself subject to GPLv3? Microsoft says no, no, no. The Free Software Foundation says yes, yes, yes.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/150099593/
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Can Microsoft’s open source problem be solved?
Date: 08/30/07
Keywords: no keywords
Instead of selling Windows for, say, $150, through an OEM, sell one year of it for $99. Require registration for updates, and then charge $75/year for maintenance, just like the anti-virals do.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/150086148/
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Is open source the stock flavor of the month?
Date: 08/29/07
Keywords: crm
Lost amidst the hype of CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog post is the inescapable fact that Wall Street, for now, thinks open source is cool. Why else would SugarCRM hint at an IPO after getting right by the OSI definition?
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/149646469/
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Is the EU spending big bucks for the obvious from QualiPSo?
Date: 08/28/07
Keywords: no keywords
The purpose of a think tank putting a high price on its work is not to pay the costs of creating it. It's to concentrate the attention of the people receiving it.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/149247484/
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The lock-in battle shifts to Sharepoint
Date: 08/28/07
Keywords: no keywords
You can put together everything SharePoint does using open source projects, but it takes work.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/149211198/
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Why SugarCRM made peace
Date: 08/27/07
Keywords: software, crm
SugarCRM has been pushing a proprietary, Enterprise edition for two years now. It recently added IBM i5/OS compatibility to that edition. Sugar's re-sellers all push the proprietary version of the software. But when it comes to marketing, SugarCRM wants to maintain its open source bonafides, and it did that this summer, in spades.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/148822892/
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How valuable are rumors in open source?
Date: 08/27/07
Keywords: no keywords
In an open source world rumor is devalued. Having sources who will tell you what a major vendor "might" do is no longer a journalist's ticket to wealth.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/148794142/
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Open source is apolitical
Date: 08/24/07
Keywords: no keywords
No matter what your other beliefs you can be part of the open source movement, agree to an open source license, and contribute to an open source project.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/147717639/
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When do you drop your closed source vendor?
Date: 08/23/07
Keywords: software
Many people won't use anything but open source software, but for the rest of us it's a gradual weaning away process.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/147362546/
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How much do open source license terms matter?
Date: 08/23/07
Keywords: no keywords
In practice the relief available to an open source vendor is limited by the fact that the customer has the code. You're trusting them to treat you fairly, under the terms of the license, but the chances any dispute will wind up in court is small.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/147351686/
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Yahoo buys while Google and open source build
Date: 08/22/07
Keywords: google
It's the speed of getting ideas to market that separates Google from the pack. You can't buy that. You can only build it by empowering innovators.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/146950924/
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Is SaaS legitimate open source?
Date: 08/22/07
Keywords: software, web
Is the Web evolving too fast for the licenses? Can licenses catch up to deal with the demands of an online world? Or will Web 2.0, based on open source software, remain in effect "proprietary."
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/146913139/
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Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?
Date: 08/21/07
Keywords: microsoft, google
So what say y'all? Has Google become a greater threat to open source than Microsoft? Is Microsoft just throwing sand in our faces, seeking to split BSD from GPL? Or will we say, like Mercutio, "a plague on both their houses."
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/146512162/
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Did Untangle blow the call?
Date: 08/20/07
Keywords: no keywords
Most surprising to many was that ClamAV was rated highly while Watchguard, which uses the ClamAV engine, flunked. Then ClamAV was bought and tongues started wagging.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/146150715/
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What’s a Pligg worth?
Date: 08/20/07
Keywords: software, web
Pligg, an open source Digg clone, has put itself on the market. For a minimum bid of $25,000 on Sedo.Com, you and your friends or business partners can get the domain name, the Web site, and access to the Sourceforge domain where the software is located.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/146121804/
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ClamAV deal is new marker for open source merger market
Date: 08/18/07
Keywords: software
Are you, as an open source user, about to get caught in the trips-and-dramas of corporate finance, just as if you were using proprietary software? It seems so.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/145506784/
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Is SaaS the quick way to open source revenue?
Date: 08/18/07
Keywords: no keywords
The customer won't likely want to see the source code, but having it available to the online vendor helps. You're his partner on sales calls, but your offerings will go side-by-side against proprietary products. To the customer there is no difference.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/145500858/
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Sun set on server business?
Date: 08/17/07
Keywords: no keywords
Companies that have run Sun hardware now know they can continue to get competitive gear even as Moore's Second Law continues to bite.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/145157824/
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Will XenSource-Citrix Deal Hurt Xen, Open Source?
Date: 08/16/07
Keywords: software, microsoft
Citrix’s $500 million buyout of XenSource is a brilliant strategic move that will enable the Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. software company –and its powerful close ally, Microsoft — to steal market share from virtualization software kingpin VMware.
The deal, announced this week presumably to coincide with VMware’s star-studded IPO, essentially unifies two powerful proprietary software companies, and [...]
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144943441/
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The iPhone bill demonstrates need for open spectrum
Date: 08/16/07
Keywords: no keywords
When the cell companies rush to the FCC and demand their rules for the coming auction of TV spectrum, this is the model they are trying to protect. The event model.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144919465/