Date: 08/22/06     Keywords: no keywords

IBM is getting a lot from open source. The question is, what is it giving open source in return? Is it a fair exchange?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=758

Date: 08/22/06     Keywords: no keywords

Arguing against the incline, or trying to argue your way up the incline, is like arguing against gravity.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=756

Date: 08/22/06     Keywords: no keywords

You know those little bits of code which are too small to be a project but too big to just throw online? How would you like to make money from that code?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=757

Date: 08/21/06     Keywords: software

Because ODF software does not yet work with screen magnifiers, which make computer documents usable by those who are legally blind, the state of Massachusetts is backing-away from its commitment to mandate the format.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=755

Date: 08/21/06     Keywords: no keywords

In the real world of business, FOSS continues moving from strength-to-strength, and the two movements – free and open source – seem to be moving in lockstep.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=754

Date: 08/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open source makes development faster.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=753

Date: 08/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

"I'm convinced that the reform that's needed is a root-and-branch reform of the very concept of the patent, carried out in the light of the facts that the network is the computer and that open source is its soul."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=752

Date: 08/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

The combination of service, maintenance, and enterprise revenue streams is what will make open source profitable in the enterprise application market.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=751

Date: 08/16/06     Keywords: linux

The point today is that the real challenge for Linux is just now coming over the horizon, that is, the creation of something new, and profitable.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=750

Date: 08/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

The purpose of having an open license-writing process is to find compromise, not to just give he appearance of listening while leaders impose their own solution.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=749

Date: 08/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

The more entrepreneurs open source storage attracts, the better for everyone in the community.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=748

Date: 08/15/06     Keywords: database, linux

The Ingres solution combines rPath Linux with the Ingres database, and is code-named Project Icebreaker.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=745

Date: 08/14/06     Keywords: linux

It's far from being Comdex. But the noise level in the Linux world continues to rise, and with that comes a need to rise above the noise, to build the marketing budget, to make a splash.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=747

Date: 08/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

By making a complex function affordable, that function becomes universal. As it becomes universal, it also becomes easier to abuse, much like PowerPoint is abused.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=746

Date: 08/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

How far down the road to true open source journalism has Slashdot really gone? Pretty far, but not all the way.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=744

Date: 08/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

How much better would you be served if we in the media spent less time filtering and more time linking? Would rumors rule and lies spread faster?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=743

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: software

I personally think it brings Intel, in some ways, back to its roots. Open source does to software what Moore's Law does to hardware. It drives down prices and drives up value.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=742

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open Logic is selling seminars to corporations which want to let open source into their workplaces, but feel they need procedures and policies first.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=741

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: software

Once you understand this notion of open source value your whole world may be rocked. This notion has definitely rocked the world of software. But it's also changing our perceptions of one another, our notions of who is and who isn't to be valued.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=740

Date: 08/08/06     Keywords: no keywords

If the government acts, this open source outfit could grow even faster.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=739