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Microsoft forces hard questions on open source
Date: 05/24/07 Keywords: microsoft
A Microsoft spokesperson "confirmed it has no immediate plans to sue" over patents. In a statement mailed to ZDNet UK, Microsoft confirmed it would not litigate for now. No immediate plans. For now. Open source is getting played. Microsoft is holding a sword over the head of all open source users, and all ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/119306734/
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What’s the best defense for open source?
Date: 05/23/07 Keywords: microsoft
The OSBC is in San Francisco this week, worrying over defending against Microsoft patent claims. Our own Ed Burnette was intrigued by hints in Jonathan Schwartz' blog this week that Sun Microsystems might help defend Ubuntu and Red Hat, if push came to shove. Interesting given that Sun isn't even a member ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/119027023/
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Open source and the attention economy
Date: 05/23/07 Keywords: no keywords
With the continued growth of the open source economy we in the media find our job is to pay attention. This is not what's best for our financial health. I have found that most stories I write about small open source start-ups go unread and unremarked upon. On the other hand, all ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/119018660/
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Following the money in open source
Date: 05/22/07 Keywords: no keywords
Open source turns money flows inside-out. As I noted before, the development process in open source is transparent, while the use of open source products in the enterprise can be rather opaque. Open source enterprises end up spending a lot of money on the front-end, building communities, recruiting developers, while the sales ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/118727536/
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Consensus need not lead to monopoly
Date: 05/21/07 Keywords: rss
Markets tend to evolve naturally toward monopoly or something much like it. Does a consensus process need to do that? Not necessarily. I take as my example a tool on this very page -- RSS. RSS lets you subscribe to blog feeds like this one, and enjoy may feeds quickly in a newsreader ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/118432328/
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The consensus process and SOA
Date: 05/21/07 Keywords: no keywords
I appreciated the comment-swarm around last week's piece on consensus. But I am afraid many missed the key word in the headline. The word is mysterious. The way in which consensus works is opaque, even while its results are highly transparent. This is in contrast to the conflict process, with its press ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/118421216/
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Consensus is the real inconvenient truth
Date: 05/18/07 Keywords: no keywords
It is the movement of consensus from the worlds of science, engineering and business into the political world which is the great theme of our time. For a generation now American politics has been ruled by narrow majorities, winner take all. Most political reporters cannot conceive of any other way for our system ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/117720636/
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The mysterious force driving open source
Date: 05/18/07 Keywords: no keywords
Consensus is the mysterious force driving open source. (The painting Consensus is by the Dutch artist Rob Voerman and was created in 1999.) Consensus, in this sense, is a scientific concept. It's not the same as unanimity, nor is it the same as democracy. It's a common acceptance and practice which must prove its utility ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/117713715/
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Gartner denies Sugar some love
Date: 05/17/07 Keywords: crm
The freedom to modify code is as important as any other freedom offered by open source, according to a new note from Gartner Group. In a thinly veiled attack on SugarCRM and its "attribution license," Brian Prentice and Mark Driver advised clients to find their own definition of open source and ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/117463754/
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The unemployment myth and open source
Date: 05/17/07 Keywords: no keywords
Got work? If you program with open source chances are the answer to that question is yes. This was not always the case. Many open source projects were started in the wake of the dot-bomb. Many people contributed to these projects because they didn't have anything better to do. This is no longer ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/117455913/
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Which is the better investment, IBM or Microsoft?
Date: 05/16/07 Keywords: no keywords
Here is a fun fact to know and tell. Let's say that, with the corks popping at Y2K, you made a bet with your rich Uncle Jerry. He would pick a stock, you would pick a stock. Whoever's stock had done better when he passed on would control his fortune. He would ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/117187556/
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Moglen goes all Democratic on Microsoft
Date: 05/16/07 Keywords: microsoft
I erred earlier in saying there was no news at the Red Hat summit in San Diego last week. Eben Moglen was there. Moglen, who keynoted last year's Nashville summit, was not supposed to be the main attraction this time. But Microsoft had just done its thing, Moglen is a talented ...
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/116935322/
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Moglen goes all Democratic on Microsoft
Date: 05/15/07 Keywords: no keywords
If you undermine community defenses you're undermining the whole ecology, and doing that for the benefit of your customers at the expense of your suppliers is not a good way to stay in business
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What IBM teaches about open source
Date: 05/15/07 Keywords: technology
Dave Barry of AlterPoint has it right. Information Technology has to get ahead of the change curve, and IBM's strategy for this is sound.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/116871659/
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What IBM teaches about open source
Date: 05/15/07 Keywords: technology
Dave Barry of AlterPoint has it right. Information Technology has to get ahead of the change curve, and IBM's strategy for this is sound.
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Software is hand made
Date: 05/14/07 Keywords: software
If we could fully automate software production, as the steam engine automated manufacturing, it's possible the open source movement would cease to exist.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/116593531/
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Software is hand made
Date: 05/14/07 Keywords: software
If we could fully automate software production, as the steam engine automated manufacturing, it's possible the open source movement would cease to exist.
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Why Microsoft hasn’t sued (yet)
Date: 05/14/07 Keywords: microsoft
The Novell agreement, and all the cross-licensing agreements which have followed, are political efforts. Many big companies, starting with those in the Open Invention Network, oppose the ideas Microsoft is putting forth, so by getting big firms to sign papers -- any papers -- Microsoft hopes to remove them as political foes.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/116586154/
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Why Microsoft hasn’t sued (yet)
Date: 05/14/07 Keywords: microsoft
The Novell agreement, and all the cross-licensing agreements which have followed, are political efforts. Many big companies, starting with those in the Open Invention Network, oppose the ideas Microsoft is putting forth, so by getting big firms to sign papers -- any papers -- Microsoft hopes to remove them as political foes.
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Two open source dilemmas
Date: 05/12/07 Keywords: no keywords
It all comes down to a balance between what Choksi calls "consuming activities" and "sustaining activities." Open source companies need balance between the two, just as they need a balance in the financial accounts.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/116131940/
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