Date: 06/13/06     Keywords: no keywords

With Open Country in the hands of a vertical market vendor, school networks can be managed remotely for the first time, for a reasonable fee. School computer budgeting becomes predictable.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=677

Date: 06/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

If all you're going to pay me is lip service, frankly, I'm happy to decline the honor.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=676

Date: 06/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

Businesses get the most protection from the GPL, he insisted. "They get protection from competition." The license's insistance on reciprocity means no one can take the code you wrote, tweak it, then compete with you.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=675

Date: 06/08/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is not like that. What happens is that, over time, the need for support on a new package declines, and the revenues to be expected decline as well. As the operating system and basic applications become standardized, less support is needed. Sunset is finally achieved.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=674

Date: 06/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

"We were pretty fuzzy in the funding announcement talking about what we would do with the money," Soltero admitted. "The real announcement is we’re going to open source the platform, under the GPL."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=673

Date: 06/06/06     Keywords: no keywords

Everyone wants their code in the standard platform because that makes them the author of the standard. But for a platform to be a standard, it has to be standardized.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=672

Date: 06/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

The copyright model of absolute protection for 100 years is being replaced, through open source, with a model more akin to that of patents.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=671

Date: 06/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

How many people have died because doctors made mistakes based on incomplete medical records

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=670

Date: 06/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

Is this the way a company should be? Or is this the way an open source company has to be?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=669

Date: 06/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

It's a pretty coherent whole. And it's all open source.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=668

Date: 06/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

What the Internet does, economically, is to eliminate the barrier to my being heard. I can now be heard as easily as David Broder. We're both using the same medium.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=667

Date: 05/31/06     Keywords: no keywords

Owners of intellectual property would do well to examine these license terms carefully. They may be pleasantly surprised by what they read.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=666

Date: 05/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

In this essay the part of the Bells in our present debate is played by a collection of sidewalk owners, or as they prefer to be called Transport Service Providers. You pay them for the privilege of walking, and they decide where you can go.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=665

Date: 05/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

There are many ways to create an open source business, or just an open source business practice. It's not like it was in the old proprietary world, everything built around a package, get big or get out. You can be any size you wish.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=664

Date: 05/25/06     Keywords: software

Over the last several years the industry has been going through a real-world cost-benefit analyis on software patents, thanks to open source. Patents failed the test.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=663

Date: 05/25/06     Keywords: no keywords

The GPL is a great idea, but it is the deep end of the pool.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=662

Date: 05/24/06     Keywords: technology, sql, postgresql

Greenplum partnered with a business analytics consultant, Daxby to come up with something that could run on a collection of low-cost servers. It wasn't cheap, but the underlying technology was still PostgreSQL.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=661

Date: 05/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

"We think the PBX wil disappear, and will become part of what you pay for basic service. Only large organizations will keep telephony in-house."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=660

Date: 05/23/06     Keywords: software

This has always been the political split between the Free Software movement and the Open Source software movement.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=659

Date: 05/22/06     Keywords: asp

The driving force is we hear the community and companies who want to go open source have issues with the GPL. They don’t like the viral aspect. They believe they should own their enhancements. With this license they are protected.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=658