Date: 03/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

We need to build applications that live in the air, that protect us, lower the cost of living, and let us age in place. With open source, hopefully, we'll soon get them.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/105624512/

Date: 03/30/07     Keywords: software

Does open source deserve to play everywhere, as a business model, a licensing scheme, perhaps even a paint thinner? Or do the software folks deserve an exclusive on it?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/105379445/

Date: 03/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is a commons. Just like Central Park, shown to the right. The Internet is a commons. Between them open source and the Internet represent the greatest expansion of the commons in history. The only comparable period might be the late 19th century, when America's great public parks, like Central Park itself, were built. A [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/105192956/

Date: 03/28/07     Keywords: software

Will the new version of the GPL supplant the old quickly, slowly, or not at all? While the goal of the GPL has always been to insulate software development from lawyers and markets, it's the lawyers and markets that will in the end decide its fate.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104941639/

Date: 03/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

Transparency is a key open source value, but it's tough to pull up in a public company, which must always seek steady earnings growth and a "story" The Street will repeat to its customers. Can Oracle, which needs street cred the way a lawyer needs billable hours, really change itsself in that way? Do open source customers need it to?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104929096/

Date: 03/27/07     Keywords: technology, microsoft

Novell is becoming a one-way mirror. Microsoft technology flows through it into the open source world. But the technology itself remains closed to the open source world. Open source developers only see Novell.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104699919/

Date: 03/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

Many companies go through several models before hitting success. Reporters need to allow for this.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104530782/

Date: 03/26/07     Keywords: microsoft

We once had IBM-ologists. Now we have Microsoft-ologists. In both cases these are people paid to know, or guess, what Microsoft "is really thinking" when if Microsoft itself knew one would think they would tell us.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104474738/

Date: 03/23/07     Keywords: technology, microsoft

With Response Point Microsoft has put its lawyers at the disposal of supporting the technology Vonage and Digium pioneered. They are competitors in the market, but in a law court they will sit on the same side of the table.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103873648/

Date: 03/22/07     Keywords: software

Do we need language against software patents in order to feel that the playing field is level? Is a license which prohibits such patents explicitly more fair than one which does not?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103652874/

Date: 03/22/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft has just been hit by an immense judgement for its use of MP3, a software algorithm. While Microsoft today is very much in favor of software patents, this has not always been the case.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103646576/

Date: 03/21/07     Keywords: software

There are many ways for virtualization to reach the market, Crosby added. It can come in software, it can come in hardware, it can be retrofitted. It also challenges our ideas on how software is priced. But it doesn't change software pricing.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103399870/

Date: 03/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

Code is a two-way street. I give to you but expect the same conditions under which you give to me.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103317711/

Date: 03/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

Creativity trumps financial power. The best ads do play on our fears. What good does it do to have an enormous financial advantage if the best TV ad of the cycle cost nothing? When the work of some anonymous schmoe trumps the work of highly-paid campaign consultants, why depend on them?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103073707/

Date: 03/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

The beta release of Glassfish Version 2 is a good place for evaluating Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz' open source strategy.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103056215/

Date: 03/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Licensing games are played all the time, and they all move eventually to the bottom of the open source incline, where the GPL says all tools belong to all. If license disarmament is the end game, what's the problem?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/102805576/

Date: 03/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

The whole idea is to build expandable, open architecture making it easy to link with other products.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/102799296/

Date: 03/16/07     Keywords: software

If tapping into non-economic motivations is OK in software, why can't it be OK in journalism?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/102216227/

Date: 03/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Journalists and analysts have a bad habit of treating business lawsuits and business negotiations as two separate realms. Often they are not. Often suits are leverage in an ongoing negotiation, one that is very likely to end in agreement, and leave journalists looking like Gilda Radner's old Emily Litella character, who after making up controversy out of whole cloth has to say "oh, never mind."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/102168493/

Date: 03/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

Open source was originally a business model, and business models remain its main challenge. How do we extract a fair price from the consumer market?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101974439/