Date: 03/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

Corporations developing open source tools can already get the write-offs. The problem they are addressing is that individuals can't, regardless of whether they are writing open source or proprietary code.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=597

Date: 03/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

Don't pretend.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=596

Date: 03/16/06     Keywords: no keywords

Are you ready for an open source military?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=595

Date: 03/16/06     Keywords: no keywords

Once everyone has something you can build on it. And the best way to make something priceless, ironically, is to make the price of that something zero.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=594

Date: 03/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

The job of publishers, like ZDNet, and open source providers are congruent.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=593

Date: 03/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

I'll buy a TiVo when I can get one that gives me all the rights I have with my old VCR, not before.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=592

Date: 03/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

Doubling or tripling the capacity of a server cluster is a very big deal.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=591

Date: 03/13/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open standards, openly arrived at, enable far more economic growth than closed standards ever will.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=590

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: software

India doesn't need cheap software or cheap hardware. It needs stuff that works, computers that talk to one another in a common language but to people in their own.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=589

Date: 03/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

Closed spectrum carries an incentive toward hoarding. Open spectrum carries an incentive toward innovation. You don't need a big budget to figure this out. Just compare the history of MMDS and WiFi.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=588

Date: 03/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

The question is, do we need it? Do we want it? Will you use it? Or is the open source movement at odds with the whole idea of a DRM?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=587

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=586

Date: 03/05/06     Keywords: no keywords

The conventional wisdom is advertising doesn’t work well in open source. Many high-quality vendors can’t afford it. Users are skeptical of advertising claims to the point of cynicism.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=585

Date: 03/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

There is no end to what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=584

Date: 03/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

What corporations call a management process problem, in the open source world, may be best seen as a family relations problem. But it's a virtual family.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=583

Date: 03/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

Give your staff open source and patent revenue will not flow to you. You won't be able to sell the results to some big company for big bucks.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=582

Date: 02/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

The savings from running a disk array based on open source aren’t in the sales price, but in the extras you don’t pay for.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=581

Date: 02/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

It's at share nothing that the proprietary world is really moving in on open source. But now projects that need to build big warehouses can say share nothing right back at 'em.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=580

Date: 02/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

"I would not be surprised to see us move further down that road, but I’m not hearing a clamor from our current customers and partners. They like our hybrid. It gives them all the functionality they need."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=579

Date: 02/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

Neither enterprises nor municipalities nor landlords nor office parks require what these companies are selling. They can re-create it for less.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=578