Date: 02/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Blackboard Inc. has issued an open source patent pledge that may not be worth the virtual paper it's printed on.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/85552660/

Date: 02/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Who's the best entrepreneur in open source?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/85481805/

Date: 02/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

If a bus ran over Linus tomorrow (god forbid), or Bruce, or Richard (left), or whomever you think is the leader of the open source movement today, how well would it carry on?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/84928202/

Date: 01/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

It's romantic to think that agrarian societies which share goods are nobler than our Western attitude of hustle-and-bustle, but I can get that renting The Gods Must be Crazy.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/84460345/

Date: 01/31/07     Keywords: linux

Let's say you were going to launch a new open source application project, right now. Which would you most like it to run on, Windows or Linux?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/84442196/

Date: 01/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

VARs who are trusted by their clients can, for less than the cost of a Vista upgrade, quietly leave Windows, delivering new hardware (and maybe some keen peripherals), charging what they now charge and gaining customer control.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/83952924/

Date: 01/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

As a business model, in other words, open source remains incomplete. While the machine runs great for enterprises who know they have IT budgets, its utility is limited for consumers, artists, and small businesses who need income, not just a cut in expenses, to make it through the day.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/83514200/

Date: 01/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Adobe is making PDF an open standard, submitting it to the ISO.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/83485048/

Date: 01/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

Even making solutions open source may not be enough to get everyone on board with a reliable Internet identity standard. Which means your identity will remain as easy to steal as a phone number.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/82160511/

Date: 01/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

You can buy corporate licenses to Spybot, you can buy Spybot merchandise, you can even donate to Spybot. But you don't get the source code, you can't reverse engineer it, and you're not buying support.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/81442687/

Date: 01/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

One big trend of this decade that has not been remarked-upon enough is how many closed source or proprietary products have adopted elements of the open source business model.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/81434564/

Date: 01/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

Last time, those who waited for the IEEE process to play out had to adapt to what was in the field. Like the man said, fool me once, won't get fooled again.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/80886933/

Date: 01/23/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Imagine if, in the proprietary era, Microsoft launched a major Windows upgrade while its main rival stood still. That would be advantage Microsoft. Under the present system it may well be advantage Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/80364023/

Date: 01/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

Cisco is caught between the rock of its biggest customers and the hard place of a market that demands open source. So its Linksys programmers use just a little, treating it like the powerful economic drug it is. Then they wait to get busted.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/80245435/

Date: 01/22/07     Keywords: linux

So the big story of The Linux Foundation turns out, in a way, to be smaller than it appeared this morning. It's a technical group whose legal and publicity assets belong to the community that sponsors it, and not to any small group of members.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/79770474/

Date: 01/22/07     Keywords: linux

Is this simply a matter of consolidating the legal and engineering resources of Linux, or is this a way for big vendors to take command of the open source movement with "one throat to choke," in this case Jim Zemlin, who had been running the FSG?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/79725050/

Date: 01/19/07     Keywords: microsoft

SCO is not going to emerge from the corporate dead. Microsoft is going to learn it must live with open source, because its customers demand that it do so.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/78056240/

Date: 01/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

Its recent announcement that Eclipse has joined the groups follows "a great deal of interaction" that has already produced tangible results

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/77425711/

Date: 01/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

It's in Cisco's business interest to fully comply with the GPL in this case, even to invite community participation in enhancing the design. That's the only chance it has of being recognized by the market, and not just a court, as the real iPhone maker.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/77396037/

Date: 01/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

Version 3 will eventually triumph, once the content industries come around. And that may be sooner than we think. In other words Linus is right, but a lot of lawyer ants are going to get stepped on along the way.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/76724544/