Date: 10/31/06     Keywords: google

Google keeps trying. Its strategy will change only when financial circumstances force it to change. I don't want to be at the Googleplex on that day.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/43749443/

Date: 10/31/06     Keywords: linux

What makes people fear Oracle's move into open source is that its giving could be a dodge. There is an assumption they're going to fork Linux, that they're going to add something proprietary to the mix, as in the story of the old lady sticking razors in the apples.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/43717201/

Date: 10/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

I suspect Cisco worries a lot more about Chinese competitors like Huawei, whose 2006 sales target is one-third Cisco's, than it does about open source.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/43334659/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open source politics isn't like Republicans vs. Democrats. It's more like the European Parliament. You can't go in there guns blazing. You can't push your way forward. You can't win it all. All you can do is cajole, engage allies, and try to make change around the edges.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974834/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

"It's really about supporting the open source community, it's about branding, it's about lead generation. There are IT directors in the trixbox community rolling their own in their lab, and when they roll it out company wide they need us with them."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974835/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

Mozilla should take over Open Office. What do you think?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974836/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: java

The real deal here, as Tim O'Reilly noted 16 months ago, is that Java is losing market share and mind share. The passion to open source Java has cooled considerably since Eric Raymond wrote his 2004 letter begging for Java to be let go. Things like Glassfish are, in fact, swimming upstream.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974837/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: web, linux

For the knowledge worker, those who need access to the Web with an e-mail client and office suite, we can offer good Linux alternatives

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974838/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

I prefer to think there are things open source can learn from Apple's success, things we can adapt. Their attitude toward service, for one thing.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974839/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open up more unlicensed frequencies, a lot more. That's the open source answer. But given the proprietary carriers' hold on Washington, that is not going to happen. Unless you demand it.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974840/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

Maybe I missed something but I am unaware of any case where an enterprise had to pay a copyright or patent holder because some open source program they were running contained patented or copyrighted material.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974841/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

What most frightens a business or consumer user? Being left without support when Murphy's Law comes calling.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974842/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: software

Once the software is all installed, a pop-up console comes up when you click on a phishing link, showing not just the URL but the host server of the offending site. You can then report it by clicking a check box.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/41974843/

Date: 10/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

I know the ZDNet audience is very tuned-in, and can see through the headline to the meaning, as I just explained it. But what of those "low information voters" out there in the operating system world? Will they be as forgiving?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/42346099/

Date: 10/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

"It's really about supporting the open source community, it's about branding, it's about lead generation. There are IT directors in the trixbox community rolling their own in their lab, and when they roll it out company wide they need us with them."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=823

Date: 10/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open source politics isn't like Republicans vs. Democrats. It's more like the European Parliament. You can't go in there guns blazing. You can't push your way forward. You can't win it all. All you can do is cajole, engage allies, and try to make change around the edges.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=824

Date: 10/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

Mozilla should take over Open Office. What do you think?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=822

Date: 10/23/06     Keywords: java

The real deal here, as Tim O'Reilly noted 16 months ago, is that Java is losing market share and mind share. The passion to open source Java has cooled considerably since Eric Raymond wrote his 2004 letter begging for Java to be let go. Things like Glassfish are, in fact, swimming upstream.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=821

Date: 10/20/06     Keywords: web, linux

For the knowledge worker, those who need access to the Web with an e-mail client and office suite, we can offer good Linux alternatives

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=820

Date: 10/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

I prefer to think there are things open source can learn from Apple's success, things we can adapt. Their attitude toward service, for one thing.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=819