Date: 05/22/06     Keywords: linux

What do Linux users need or want with a user group?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=657

Date: 05/22/06     Keywords: no keywords

Jobs. Local development. Local jobs. That's the pitch.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=656

Date: 05/19/06     Keywords: software

It's the Windows business model, not the software, that is inherently undependable.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=655

Date: 05/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

One can look upon open source as just a business model, just another way to make a buck. But even as a business model, it's the biggest economic and even political challenge of the age.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=654

Date: 05/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

What do Jonathan Schwartz and George W. Bush have in common? Some say both missed a big opportunity this week.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=653

Date: 05/16/06     Keywords: no keywords

Fortify’s Source Code Analysis suite, which scans source code then applies rules to identify possible bugs, will now be used on Findbugs.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=652

Date: 05/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

The closer you are to the Internet, the more powerful open source becomes.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=651

Date: 05/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

"We want to focus on getting active voices," analysts, users, even journalists. Especially users. "Every day I talk to a user who I haven’t talked to before. And I take notes. I share it with other people. That’s what this consortium will formalize."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=650

Date: 05/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

My kids have grown up in an age where all kinds of knowledge are freely-available. They take it for granted. This is an enormous difference (and improvement) over my own upbringing. Nothing -- neither law nor business model -- can put that genie back in the bottle.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=649

Date: 05/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

It's so exciting to see the birth of a new business model. Especially when it's mine.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=648

Date: 05/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

When books go out of print, they should be open source by definition. Authors and publishers should be pressured to donate their works to libraries under open source license.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=647

Date: 05/08/06     Keywords: security

The biggest problem remains disseminating those fixes throughout the community. Having every user's address and being able to force compliance with security fixes is the main advantage the proprietary world retains.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=646

Date: 05/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

What is an open source enterprise worth? Its contracts, its goodwill, and its people. Sounds like a law firm to me.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=645

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: no keywords

What does your matrix look like?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=644

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

"In terms of improving the advisory process, that will get worse before it gets better. After you find a bug you have to patch it, and that takes a lot of time. People are vulnerable while the bug is out there."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=643

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

Whether the project is server or client based, it is the standard which provides a base everyone can build on, and everyone can benefit from.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=642

Date: 05/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

The last thing I want to do at this stage of my life is become a political reporter. But in covering the open source principle, it seems I'm increasingly drawn toward Washington. Can y'all get me out of this?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=641

Date: 05/01/06     Keywords: java

Java's great promise has long been stymied by the fact that Sun expected to be paid for it.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=640

Date: 05/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

Imagine if MINDSTORM were specified as the heart of the next FIRST competition. Imagine thousands of high school students working with open source.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=639

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

What I think is really happening here is that Wall Street is starting to believe the claims of open source advocates, especially in light of Sun's move, and was looking for an excuse to stick it to The Man.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=638