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Open source offers new corporate responsibility twist
Date: 09/07/06
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Open source is changing the world in many, many ways. One of them is by redefining corporate responsibility, and how to meet it.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=778
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Dissing volunteers still a mistake
Date: 09/06/06
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Humanics is a discipline usually associated with the running of schools, zoos, and museums. Maybe it's time open source sought that kind of expertise.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=777
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We need more programmers
Date: 09/05/06
Keywords: programming
What we need is something exciting, something in AJAX, that will teach the rudiments of AJAX programming. Something we can teach in high schools or in junior colleges. Followed up by contests, with prizes, and by big challenges which can lead to jobs.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=776
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Old ideas still needed
Date: 09/05/06
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Maybe there isn't a huge market in voice recognition, or in the OCR realm. But there is a great need for it. And these are the kinds of projects where open source can make real change happen, in the lives of real people.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=775
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The seasons of open source
Date: 09/05/06
Keywords: programming
Open source really is all about programming. Programmers work hard in the fall, and in the spring, and in the winter. So open source events happen when people are most likely able to get to them.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=774
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Another win for mobile open source
Date: 09/01/06
Keywords: css
Sony-Ericsson expects the benefits of Eclipse to flow to its customers, both consumers and service providers. It's all part of an effort to integrate the Internet more-tightly to mobiles.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=773
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JBOSS' Fleury plays New York
Date: 08/31/06
Keywords: linux
Fleury says a "Nash Equillibrium" has taken hold in the Linux OS space -- “nobody move and nobody gets hurt."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=772
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Apple-Sun Deal Unlikely
Date: 08/30/06
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John Dvorak is floating the rumor that Apple is about to take over Sun.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=771
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Where are the proprietary hits?
Date: 08/30/06
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Where are the new proprietary vendors? Where are the new proprietary hits?
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=770
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Open source standards and proprietary profit
Date: 08/30/06
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By giving away the how, Day became the who, as in who you gonna call if you want to link big ECM projects together.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=769
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Too late for federated identity?
Date: 08/29/06
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The idea that “if you require signs-ons for every site people will use fewer sites” is comforting to many site managers, especially publishers, who see in it a hope to capture and retain their audience.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=768
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Open source stack era ending?
Date: 08/28/06
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While embedding worked fine when you could count on a continuing revenue stream, open source which gets too deeply embedded becomes free, since it no longer requires support, and support is where the money comes from.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=767
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Apple WebObjects going open source?
Date: 08/26/06
Keywords: database
What seems obvious to me is that Apple fears the database market within its OS is under severe threat from open source, and that it needs to give something back to its user base in order to stay in contention there.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=766
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Open source threatened by judicial activism
Date: 08/25/06
Keywords: no keywords
What the open source industry really needs is not a win in court, but true patent reform.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=764
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Open Source and the Law
Date: 08/25/06
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“The risk in patents and DRM and DMCA is we stifle that innovation."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=765
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The Collapse of Competition
Date: 08/24/06
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The “natural” profit gain you assume in a consolidating industry just isn't being earned. Competition is collapsing in the closed source world, but it is just beginning in the open source world.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=763
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Packet storage sounds Clever
Date: 08/24/06
Keywords: software
"The dispersal of the data occurs in the computer where the data starts. It initially goes to 11 storage locations, each operated by a different company, running a different server operating system, in a different part of the world. Our open source software does the dispersal, and no one but the data owner knows what the data is."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=762
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This is not a column
Date: 08/23/06
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I've been privileged these last two years to get many calls from PR folks, even from principals within the open source community, and I grind my teeth every time they write or say "your column."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=761
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Governments' role in open source
Date: 08/23/06
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The problem is that, in the past, when American industries were threatened by foreign competition, America generally chose the worst possible policies to support them.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=760
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The Internet Business Model
Date: 08/23/06
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I think Grisoft demonstrates the connection between free and open source business models. Both are born of the Internet. Both are based on community. And both work.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=759