Date: 12/08/06     Keywords: no keywords

If Asian programmers are getting the benefits of open source transparency for their work, shouldn't American programmers get the same benefits for what they do best, which is enhance it? Should not Cisco and other device makers be doing everything possible to encourage this creativity?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/58627226/

Date: 12/07/06     Keywords: crm

John Roberts says you do need his badge. Or you're violating his SugarCRM license. Which is still open source, even though OSI hasn't approved it. It doesn't have the OSI badge of approval. It don't need no stinking badges either. But you do.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/58231057/

Date: 12/06/06     Keywords: no keywords

One of the big stories for 2007 is going to be the battle between marketing and reputation.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/57818286/

Date: 12/06/06     Keywords: no keywords

I do hope you're enjoying the new design launched here at ZDNet this week. Let me take you on a brief tour of the new features:

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/57817978/

Date: 12/05/06     Keywords: java

We need to see Java capabilities start to accelerate beyond those of rival technologies. We need to see more investment in development. We need to see hiring. The test is here.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/57513016/

Date: 12/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

To stay relevant OSDL should focus on what's missing, and what remains missing is a legal framework all users can rely upon to avoid patent and copyright liability. That's what it is now working on.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/57272893/

Date: 12/04/06     Keywords: no keywords

In the end you have to depend on someone, unless you're rolling your own solution, in which case you're in the development business, and not whatever business you thought you were in. So is a stack any better than a proprietary solution?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/57130126/

Date: 12/02/06     Keywords: google

If you are an open source developer, or need detailed code resources, Krugle is better than Google.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/56607980/

Date: 12/01/06     Keywords: software

Patent reform is a big part of the answer. Instead of just fighting pitched battles on individual patents, isn't it time groups like the Software Freedom Law Center got behind a reform proposal?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/56211897/

Date: 11/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

2006 has been marked by money coming in, not just from venture capitalists but from enterprises of all sizes who see open source as a way to save on IT, and gain more control. This spells opportunity. But opportunity is also a temptation.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/55852351/

Date: 11/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

The Medsphere crisis could spell the end of enterprise open source applications.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/55830261/

Date: 11/29/06     Keywords: programming

Don't think of this as just a Christmas gift. Follow-up. Make certain this new account is serviced. See to it that workers there are trained, and that they train others. Toss in some old books on computer programming, either from your own library or from others.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/55601697/

Date: 11/29/06     Keywords: no keywords

The lesson, I think, is that the gotchas being placed into non-approved licenses may be practically unenforceable. Not that lawyers couldn't win points in court, but any move toward a court would have a profound negative effect on that vendor's community.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/55577923/

Date: 11/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

Marc spoke out of turn, saying he wasn't happy with the R&D investment he was getting from home office. In a traditional company, a division manager who speaks out of turn like this gets tossed out on their ear. His successor learns to keep his head down and his mouth shut. But to do that here would be a huge mistake.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/55051197/

Date: 11/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

The biggest problem is that companies aren't using modern tools. Some 78% still base their forecasting on simple spreadsheets, including 68% of big companies, and 45% haven't rebuilt their financial models in the last three years.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/54695220/

Date: 11/27/06     Keywords: software, microsoft

Americans are not going to knuckle-under to a Microsoft monopoly on software development. More particularly, the rest of the world won't. And Microsoft doesn't do politics particularly well.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/54603479/

Date: 11/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

The hybrid model adds a third dimension to the open source incline. The idea is that you stand at the corner of sharing and self-interest. You can adjust license terms to gain more support, or you can offer different terms to different customers in the name of self-interest.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/54591704/

Date: 11/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

Which is more vital to economic growth, the idea of knowledge as property or the idea of knowledge as a commons?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/53595422/

Date: 11/21/06     Keywords: no keywords

RedHat has been a particular victim of the news eclipse.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/52193244/

Date: 11/21/06     Keywords: java, linux, microsoft

Most of you don't appear to take Ballmer's threat seriously. That's good. But does it make you more likely to seek a strategy in the future that takes you away from Microsoft, say through the use of GPL Java and Linux?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/52156548/