Date: 12/19/06     Keywords: programming

In a world increasingly defined by an economics of abundance marketing, journalism, writing, video, and programming all must compete with other motivations, including those employed by the better angels of our nature.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/63825282/

Date: 12/19/06     Keywords: linux

It's a six page file from Unisphere Research, created by the same folks who created the 5 Minute Briefing, indicating that, while small companies are moving off Windows, larger ones are moving off Solaris -- but nearly all the server moves are in the direction of Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/63725873/

Date: 12/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

The fact remains that non-techies still write most of the checks in the technical world. You may consider this unfortunate, even wrong, but so long as there are finance departments and pointy-headed bosses their views will matter.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/63255939/

Date: 12/18/06     Keywords: mysql, database, sql, web

Small companies face a Hobson's Choice as they grow. They may start with mySQL, a solid, simple database, but they wonder whether it will scale as they grow. Given the penchant of Web companies to grow exponentially if they turn out to be winners, this is a question that is occuring earlier-and-earlier in these companies' lives.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/63255940/

Date: 12/16/06     Keywords: java

A December 2004 post on Jivali, an open source Java implementation from Brazil, was still the 4th most read item on this blog for 2006.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/62344265/

Date: 12/16/06     Keywords: linux

Getting the word out on our great desktop Linux applications should be an important goal for 2007, and beyond.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/62337391/

Date: 12/15/06     Keywords: linux

IBM has donated IAccessibility2, an API for giving the blind full access in Linux and Open Office, to the Free Standards Group. This is a big win for both abled and disabled users. Blind folks can now get the savings of open source, and a major impediment to government mandates of open source has been cleared.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61898189/

Date: 12/15/06     Keywords: linux, microsoft

The record of the case, and its intense discovery, may dissuade even Microsoft from challenging the legal position of Linux, given the court's demand that any such challenge must state precisely the code to be challenged and the basis of that challenge.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61874810/

Date: 12/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

It is ironic that falling costs may actually be behind the mess. Any equipment for speeding last-mile links may become obsolete before it's paid for, and investors don't like those odds.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61865694/

Date: 12/14/06     Keywords: web

Web pages already have substantial trademark and copyright protection. Why should patent protections be added?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61384950/

Date: 12/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

Will taking money out of the equation speed, or slow, innovation in computing research? We report, you decide.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61372506/

Date: 12/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

Failure to properly close a function may be based on something really simple, like a missing square bracket, and it may fall thousands of lines deeper into the code than the function's start. Think you're going to find that without help? Want to spend weeks doing so?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/61363083/

Date: 12/13/06     Keywords: microsoft

I suspect Microsoft likes the good cop-bad cop act, but I wonder for how long that can continue. Seeing whether Microsoft gains a unified open source strategy will be one of the great stories to watch in 2007.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/60829396/

Date: 12/13/06     Keywords: software, linux

"As a development model the GPL and other licenses offer the possibility of more rapidly creating network effects around software. Linux has extraordinary network effects. Open source can create a community of developers and users who in turn create features that make software more sustainable.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/60820649/

Date: 12/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

Competitors that can't be found by customers don't exist for long. Imagine if PC-compatible computers could not have advertised that fact, 25 years ago.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/60408581/

Date: 12/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

People challenged by their own bodies need the savings open source provides more than anyone else does. When might they get them?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/60361658/

Date: 12/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

The story also said a lot about how far science has moved from the open source ethos that made it work. It showed how sharing of results among colleagues has declined in this proprietary age, that we are all paying a price for that, and that Bill Gates, the "world's richest man", realizes this, that he is using his power to do something about it.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/60308996/

Date: 12/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

"The way to profit is to sell in a cost effective way. Capital efficiency is king," Soward says. By offering free downloads and a GPL license, Adaptive Planning cuts its sales costs to the bone and can address parts of the middle market other firms can't touch.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/59876411/

Date: 12/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

Should open source projects have boring names, lest said names be taken over by someone with more money?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/59858689/

Date: 12/08/06     Keywords: no keywords

In an economics of abundance control shifts from sellers' agents to buyers' agents, with the savings going entirely to the consumers of content, and less money available to the creators. Is this inevitable?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/58664870/