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How Google Apps grows
Date: 04/17/07
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When you expose your code to the world, you expose yourself to all sorts of organic growth, growth which can support your own efforts even while it seems to drain away revenues in various outside niches.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/109788401/
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How much openness does the market demand?
Date: 04/17/07
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The stakes have really been raised. It's not enough to be open source, even to be at the bottom of the open source incline. Now it's ease of use, branding, and business basics that count.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/109778731/
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Tax day smackdown from FOSS
Date: 04/16/07
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If the industry's largest company, with its immense patent portfolio, and its many fine patent attorneys, finds patents to be a bad business, shouldn't the rest of the industry take a hint?
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/109492773/
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Stuart Cohen tackling the vertical application stack
Date: 04/16/07
Keywords: microsoft
While open source is big among large enterprises, it's not so big in the small business space, which lacks IT staff. Doctors, lawyers, and indian chiefs (non-casino) depend on re-sellers for their systems. These re-sellers lie at the heart of Microsoft's market dominance.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/109486500/
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Content and software have metrics in common
Date: 04/13/07
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What can we at ZDNet do to get you reading, and responding, to what we write here, instead of elsewhere? How can we get our page views and talkback numbers closer to our reputation and audience size?
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/108806924/
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The big problem Red Hat Exchange Does Not Solve
Date: 04/13/07
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What Red Hat Exchange needs is meat space reality. That means training, re-seller recruitment, and feet on the street.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/108800105/
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IONA building SOA from pieces and people
Date: 04/12/07
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Building SOA from pieces is not nearly so interesting as building a global team to support it, in the open source world.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/108584919/
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Can open source processes close doors to speech?
Date: 04/12/07
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It seems to me that having our stupidity stored, available for later use against us, is all the sanction we should need. What you write online, whether in a comment thread, an e-mail, a blog, or a news piece, can be found. If there is legal reason to unmask you, your supposedly anonymous comments will be unmasked.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/108555740/
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Can Linux save Palm?
Date: 04/11/07
Keywords: linux
Palm Computing, which defined a whole new category with the PDA and then saw it shrivel, is attempting a comeback based on Linux.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/108303101/
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Google’s role in an open source world
Date: 04/11/07
Keywords: google
Google proves you can scale an enormous company in a short time, share code extensively (under a variety of licenses), yet still keep what you need to have private, private.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/108274148/
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Krugle and the search for business models
Date: 04/10/07
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While open source, in its traditional sense, does define a business model -- give away the code and sell support -- it doesn't limit what you can or should do. Support, advertising, sales, consulting, all these business models and more work in the open source world.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/108022022/
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Can Launchpad karma run over Sourceforge dogma?
Date: 04/10/07
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As more-and-more open source projects become financially viable, the development and identification of talent becomes ever-more crucial. Launchpad hopes its Karma Calculation provides this valuable service, smoothing the way for students and amateurs into the professional ranks.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/107973903/
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Is VRM a solution in search of a problem?
Date: 04/09/07
Keywords: no keywords
In the end I think we're all looking for the same thing, transparency. We'd like to get use out of the data being collected on us. We'd like interfaces for collecting that data, and programs for managing it. It sounds like a mass market. Consumers demanding power over merchants.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/107722857/
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Children of GPL
Date: 04/06/07
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Both the GPL and its children (LGPL and Affero) define a new kind of freedom, one with obligations, specifically the obligation to grant others the rights you claim for yourself. I believe history will come to regard them as important milestones, given their intended worldwide reach, their simple language, and their high ideals.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/107103241/
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Adaptive Planning seeks profit in free hosted version
Date: 04/05/07
Keywords: blogging, software, hosting
The idea of giving away hosting as well as software may be new in the corporate market, but it has a long history in the consumer market, where it's the main business model for blogging and other online tools.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/106843024/
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Is StillSecure open source?
Date: 04/04/07
Keywords: no keywords
Open source doesn't need a Scalia to protect itself.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/106583190/
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Do commercial open source projects need an office?
Date: 04/04/07
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A balance may be needed, between working alone and working together. Open source companies can lead the effort to find that balance. Most already are dispersed, and face major costs (not to mention employee headaches) in bringing people together.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/106575439/
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Spring time for Interface21 and enterprise Java
Date: 04/03/07
Keywords: no keywords
If people are using your product, if you're solving problems, then you have control over your destiny.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/106321240/
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Comcast money helps open source scare Cisco
Date: 04/02/07
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There is no win yet, but for the first time open source is in the game for a major telecomm infrastructure project.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/106033572/
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Solving the management problem of virtualization
Date: 04/02/07
Keywords: no keywords
A single workstation can now manage your entire virtual environment, making either automatic or manual adjustments, and keeping you operating.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/106019278/