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Red Hat-JBoss something of a surprise
Date: 04/10/06
Keywords: java, linux
For Red Hat, it's an important move away from commodity Linux and towards the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) area, where JBoss' Java-based middleware is an important component. JBoss gets to go public without filing any paperwork.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=616
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Open source concepts at cross purposes?
Date: 04/10/06
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Assured bandwidth, packet priority and low latency are qualities some applications really need.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=617
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The Hundt for better business models
Date: 04/07/06
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When business efficiency is forbidden by law, can the government that does this claim to be capitalist?
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=615
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What I learned in Washington
Date: 04/05/06
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The proprietary model is not the only route toward economic growth. Competition and cooperation often go hand-in-hand.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=614
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Reed Hundt says, make the Internet a top priority
Date: 04/04/06
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Hundt estimated a subsidy of "only" $20-25 billion would deliver a universal fiber-to-the-home connection to every American home, something he called essential to meeting the competitive threat of China.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=613
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You get muni broadband by demanding it
Date: 04/04/06
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Cities, like people, learn only with time.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=612
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Boucher's route to network neutrality may run through the Judiciary Committee
Date: 04/04/06
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Boucher called the AT&T plan "an effort on the part of the telephone companies to extend their market power from transport into content. Under antitrust principles this is suspicious."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=611
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Is the Network Neutrality Bill in Trouble?
Date: 04/03/06
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Give me a legal definition of network neutrality, some specific language you would put into the law, which would be legally defensible, and which would hold for decades going forward.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=610
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Open Internet advocates poised between elation and despair
Date: 04/03/06
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"This is the tipping point. Wireless will be a competitive threat to the cableco and telco. This exceeds FIOS. This is no brag. This is fact." His conclusion, "The tools make the rules."
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=609
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Dave Isenberg's rebel alliance fights for network neutrality
Date: 04/03/06
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The idea that your ISP should not favor their own content over other types is perfectly clear when you explain it to people. Each speaker had great stories to tell. The problem is that these folks lacked a screenplay, a way to reach this mass market of people who could change Congress' mind or, failing that, simply change Congress.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=608
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Next Week: Freedom2Connect
Date: 03/31/06
Keywords: blogging
Next week I will be spending time in Silver Spring, Maryland, live-blogging the Pulver Freedom2Connect conference. Freedom2Connect, I feel, is all about bringing the open source idea back to its source, which is the Internet. Over the last few years Internet access has become increasingly proprietary, to the point where we're now talking seriously [...]
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=607
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Who's the boss?
Date: 03/31/06
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The secret sauce is really the developer talent. They draw in the community, they bring innovative new ideas forward that excite of the community
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=606
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Save the Coders Foundation
Date: 03/29/06
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Some folks can't get their heads around the idea that there are important areas of open source that don't have a viable business model.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=605
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Like it or not, open source is a movement
Date: 03/28/06
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By sharing wealth, we hope to become wealthier. This is a basic principle all open source projects have in common. Its implications are also very, very challenging, on many levels.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=604
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Is Ballmer's latest more than mere FUD?
Date: 03/27/06
Keywords: linux, microsoft
This is almost like announcing that there will sooner or later be an announcement of Microsoft starting patent litigation against “Linux” vendors and/or users.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=603
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Does open source have boundaries?
Date: 03/24/06
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The new balancing test is between protection and stagnation. Code that is protected depends on its owner to progress. This is a continual, and rising cost.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=602
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The whole network is the computer
Date: 03/23/06
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While U.S. companies hoard bandwidth in favor of cable TV or obsolete voice applications, Sun Wen in Beijing will be in the fast lane, slurping that power down as fast as thought.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=601
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What else can a PC client do?
Date: 03/22/06
Keywords: microsoft
What do you really need on a new client? And hasn't the whole idea of a client been blown-up lately, with devices like the iPod, the cell phone, and Microsoft's own XBox now replacing what the PC could have and would have done?
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=600
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Can closed source survive?
Date: 03/21/06
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Open source is going to become the norm. Just as we no longer talk about e-commerce, just commerce, we will wonder in five years why anyone assumes their source should be closed.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=599
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Microsoft, IBM and open source
Date: 03/20/06
Keywords: microsoft
What used to be the "mainframe" business is now a two-horse race, and that is the battle Microsoft will really begin when it releases Vista, this fall.
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=598