Date: 11/20/06     Keywords: technology, asp, linux, microsoft

Users are in an uproar but, according to Groklaw, the threat is real, at least in regards those Linux users who also use Microsoft's .Net. Such enterprises will only be able to use the "open source" aspects of Microsoft's technology if they also switch to SUSE.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/51728130/

Date: 11/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

If we did not allow people like Bill Gates to make this choice, his example would not be nearly as powerful as it is. That is why I think we should wait until our other leeches are fat with the blood of their victims (uh, customers) before we try to put the bite on them.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/51337825/

Date: 11/18/06     Keywords: programming, software

Open source, by its nature, drives down pure software revenues. You can put some of those revenues into other bins, you can call them support, or contract programming, or services, but over time recurring product revenues wither.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/51032687/

Date: 11/17/06     Keywords: software, microsoft

I think the most important question is whether Hilf can show Microsoft a way to profit from all this. The bottom line remains the bottom line. And there is no way on Earth Microsoft will ever earn the margins from open source it gets from proprietary software.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/50691871/

Date: 11/16/06     Keywords: no keywords

When you are running open source you control your own code. You also control the code budget. When you are using a proprietary solution -- no matter how good the solution -- the vendor controls your code. They decide what you will pay, and when.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/50183665/

Date: 11/15/06     Keywords: software, microsoft

Don't be confused by the illusion of a truce; developers are no safer from Microsoft patents now than they were before. Instead, Microsoft has used this patent pledge to indicate that, in their view, the only good Free Software developer is an isolated, uncompensated, unimportant Free Software developer.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/49650354/

Date: 11/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

Behind IBM's mild complaint is a scream of pain, an acknowledgement that Sun has cleverly kicked it in the shins.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/49198957/

Date: 11/13/06     Keywords: no keywords

Wikipedia is being forked.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/48791139/

Date: 11/13/06     Keywords: linux

Will Linux advance without gaming? Will desktop Linux ever reach the mass market without gaming? And will we ever see an open source game console?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/48771416/

Date: 11/13/06     Keywords: no keywords

Sun, a big company dedicated to increasing its revenue and profits, chose the GPL for a key asset, citing its business advantages.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/48751910/

Date: 11/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

"We're cutting the cost of maintenance as carriers drive us to push down costs. The only way to keep pace with those demands is to find other ways of reducing cost. Open source is the best way."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/47625170/

Date: 11/09/06     Keywords: linux

The truth of the assertion is in a chart near the back of the report. It shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux next year, against 23% for Windows. The move is slower for larger enterprises, but the direction is clear.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/47132567/

Date: 11/08/06     Keywords: microsoft

The big moves by Oracle and Microsoft, along with the newly-announced decision by Adobe to open source some code, has customers of all sizes asking the same question. Is this real?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/46728148/

Date: 11/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

One of the big problems in college education is the cost of textbooks and courseware. It keeps smart kids from getting the degrees they need to succeed. Connexxions is putting the most-popular community college texts online free, with hardbound copies at $30 each.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/46264141/

Date: 11/06/06     Keywords: no keywords

Whether the source of a program is open or closed does not make it transparent. Transparency is what we need here. A transparent computerized voting system would offer voters' receipts, would maintain copies, and would read them against vote totals.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/45828020/

Date: 11/03/06     Keywords: linux

If we're really talking open source, if no one is going to do a proprietary fork, take their customers and go home, everyone wins here. The market can now grow exponentially, grabbing customers who were previously suspicious, who would never consider Linux before.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/44398329/

Date: 11/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

"It's a lot harder for the interconnects to learn the router than for the data VAR to learn the telephone."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/44668503/

Date: 11/02/06     Keywords: java

How important is the license term to an open source Java developer, as opposed to the imprimatur of Sun?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/44276846/

Date: 11/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

Many types of hardware would benefit from the openness and transparency of good GPL code.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/44276847/

Date: 11/01/06     Keywords: microsoft

That will keep Oracle honest, Soward feels. RedHat isn't the game, Microsoft is.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/43966886/