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Is Myhrvold now a blast from the past?
Date: 07/03/06
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Laws that were changed to benefit tech companies in the 1990s are now seen as a hindrance. What happened between times, I think, is that open source proved itself.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=697
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Phipps explains what he really meant
Date: 06/30/06
Keywords: software
You pay for the software at the point of deployment.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=696
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The broader implications of open source
Date: 06/29/06
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In any open source endeavor consensus is necessary to achieve progress. Modeling this behavior on economics and politics gives us a different world.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=695
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Sun's Phipps makes a scarecrow argument
Date: 06/28/06
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It's Bill Gates' vision of "embrace and extend," only the beneficiaries are both the shareholders in companies doing the sharing and those at the bottom doing the using.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=694
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Sourcelabs updates the open source support process
Date: 06/28/06
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Anything which makes enterprises more comfortable with open source is something even small companies benefit from.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=693
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How open source transforms business
Date: 06/27/06
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I can see individuals losing jobs. But if you look at the rate of innovation in open source, and the jobs they’re creating, all these things are dynamics that are healthy for the business and create innovation higher up the stack. Look where open source is happening and look how to leverage it.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=692
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Bill Gates embraces open source process
Date: 06/27/06
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Gates and his wife Melinda talked about bringing scientists together around a table and generating ideas about solving problems, without worries about money or who owns the ideas.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=691
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What's missing in open source companies?
Date: 06/26/06
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Successful open source companies don't have big marketing budgets.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=690
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The importance of Callisto, a sum greater than its components
Date: 06/26/06
Keywords: software
"If you don’t architect your software to take advantage of component architecture you get in trouble, with too many dependencies."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=689
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XML grows up as XBRL
Date: 06/23/06
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If everyone were happy, the UBMatrix effort might not be so exciting. But everyone is not happy.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=688
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Where Messman failed at Novell
Date: 06/22/06
Keywords: linux
No big enterprise is going to dump their investment in Windows desktops wholesale and replace them with Linux. It must be done slowly, seamlessly, compatibly.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=687
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ZDNet comes under political attack in net neutrality fight
Date: 06/22/06
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Who will have the courage to fix the broadband gap? Who will campaign on a demand that we free the bits?
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=686
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Is open source a threat to copyright?
Date: 06/21/06
Keywords: microsoft
Copyright protects open source projects just as it does Microsoft. But for the benefits of open source to grow, perhaps some adjustments are in order.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=685
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Hyperic seeks to build an enterprise community
Date: 06/20/06
Keywords: software
Given the need to build that community among enterprises, Hyperic is tweaking the GPL slightly, adding a codicil to its own contracts "so no one needs to fear that an agent makes their own software open source."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=684
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The lesson taught by Wikipedia
Date: 06/19/06
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If you want to control your code, under open source, BSD licensing probably is the way to go. But you may end up like Nupedia. If you want to grow exponentially, you need to give the community the same rights and obligations you claim for yourself.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=683
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Great Man Series: The most hated man in cyberspace
Date: 06/16/06
Keywords: software
This business movement, which Stallman grandfathered, has done to software what Moore’s Law did to hardware.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=682
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When is stupid not so stupid?
Date: 06/15/06
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Commercial projects are looking at the bottom line, as they should. Open source projects don't have to.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=681
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Open source creates U.S. manufacturing jobs
Date: 06/14/06
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Open source. Jobs in the USA. No need for capital. Did you just read that right? You did.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=680
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Microsoft objects
Date: 06/13/06
Keywords: microsoft
How far is Microsoft going, really? How much is it giving, not just in terms of code but in terms of license terms, against what it's expecting to get from the community?
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=679
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Open source searching it all
Date: 06/13/06
Keywords: google
Kazeon and Google are teaming up to offer an $80,000 solution that will let enterprises search 20 terabyte stores of unstructured files at once, including archives and backups.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=678