Date: 02/08/06     Keywords: no keywords

I believed early press reports indicating there was a "WiFi Tax" in the new federal budget. It was a misreading of the document by another reporter, but I have to take responsibility for not double-checking myself.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=565

Date: 02/07/06     Keywords: linux

If you could convert your old Word files to, say, OpenOffice, would that make your employer make the Linux switch?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=564&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/07/06     Keywords: linux

If you could convert your old Word files to, say, OpenOffice, would that make your employer make the Linux switch?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=564

Date: 02/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

Sounds to me they're saying that your cost for using unlicensed spectrum should be based on what frequency hoarders pay in federal auctions. It also sounds to me like it's saying the frequency spectrum is government property that should be used to raise money.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=563&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

Sounds to me they're saying that your cost for using unlicensed spectrum should be based on what frequency hoarders pay in federal auctions. It also sounds to me like it's saying the frequency spectrum is government property that should be used to raise money.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=563

Date: 02/06/06     Keywords: no keywords

Imagine if Western Union, 10 years after Alex Bell's invention, had been able to buy him out and get monopoly status from the government.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=562&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

With others they have to wait for the vendor, they have to escalate it, and the partner has to wait as well. It becomes a credibility issue for the partner.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=561&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/02/06     Keywords: linux

"What people are saying is they want a higher quality Linux desktop. And they want lots of applications. When they get that there’s no need for piracy."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=560&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 02/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

You're stuck reading this on a stop-start jerky 1.5 Mbps pipe while over in Korea they're breezing along at 100 Mbps. That has to change the balance of power -- intellectual power, patent power, financial power.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=559&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/31/06     Keywords: no keywords

Internet access is becoming an unregulated, government-mandated duopoly.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=558&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/30/06     Keywords: linux

It may be the last step in the PBX evolution. A GNU-based Linux application that mimics all a regular PBX can do for 40-80% less.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=557&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

The winning theme (or skin) mimics the look-and-feel of the Apple Macintosh OS

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=556&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

Once you tell anybody in the open source world about anything, you’ve told everybody everything.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=555&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/27/06     Keywords: linux

Torvalds has always been fairly agnostic on license questions, which is why so many different licenses use his kernel at the heart of their operating systems, which in turn is why Linux is such a popular operating system which has now pretty-much unified the Unix development world.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=554&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/25/06     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is not a company. It's not a brand. It's a process.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=553&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/24/06     Keywords: apache

Covalent has gone into direct competition with JBoss, announcing support for the Apache Geronimo application server.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=552&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/23/06     Keywords: no keywords

UIMA is no ordinary piece of code. It's designed to make all sorts of unstructured content readily searchable

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=551&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/20/06     Keywords: no keywords

A winner, in the open source sense, is a project with a lot of support, an active community, and a growing user base. It's something you can bet the company on with confidence.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=550&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

The revival of the Solaris development community is tremendous and it’s all because of the open source project.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=549&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

For any business to make sense as an acquisition for an outfit like H-P, it has to be scalable, and it has to be large enough to make an impact on the H-PO bottom line, if not right now, then soon.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=548&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog