Date: 12/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

I guess, as Bill Clinton might have said, it depends on what the meaning of our, are.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=527&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/16/05     Keywords: technology

Perens' predictions are based on the better technology winning, and no one being able to "game" the outcome to suit their own agenda.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=526&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Would any of Wikipedia's critics publish the criticism in as detailed and factual a way as Wikipedia has?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=525&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

Letting the light in is not anarchy. A demand of consensus is not mob rule. It's the scientific method in action.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=524&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

The lesson here remains the same. Transparency rocks.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=523&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

Wikis are no better than the people who make them.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=522&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

While a new year is an important milestone, it's an artificial one. Trends continue.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=521&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: software

If you can't look at DRM software, and you can't use software without DRM, then essentially you can't have open source in France. Not legally, anyway.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=520&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Credibility is a key value. So are honesty, and a proper balance of giving-and-taking where the commodity is information. These are the values taught in a good journalism school.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=519&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

It would just be nice if, sometimes, we could make choices based on merit.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=518&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

In an enterprise environment, knowing what you have and the rules under which you have it is the key to making a success of open source.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=517&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

I'm deliberately leaving some of the Top 10 blank, because this is a blog, and you're part of the content. (Maybe that's one of the trends.)

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=516&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

The point is that Wales has been pro-active here. He has gotten in front of the criticism and done something. Compare his move to Sony's moves regarding its DRM scandal. Or is that comparison unfair?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=515&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/05/05     Keywords: software

Open source isn't just about free software in this case. It's about getting value out of what you have, integrating software and hardware with the wetware of the human mind, and about having something that's effective even after the software is obsolete.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=514&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

Just like the GPL, Wikipedia carries with it responsibilities along with rights.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=513&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

The biggest problem revealed by this study isn't in its conclusions, but in the limited current capability of OSDL, or any single actor, to do something about them.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=512&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 12/01/05     Keywords: software, java

Sun Microsystems says it will makes its Java Enterprise System, N1 Management software and developer tools free and, in time open source. It will also integrate the tools with the Solaris into something called the Solaris Enterprise System, which will also be free. The announcement came in a standard Sun press release. A check of COO [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=511&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

The hope is to model how an massive international process with a clear result should run.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=510&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/29/05     Keywords: no keywords

One application type which it seems plain needs a community behind it, and thus open source, is mapping.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=509&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/29/05     Keywords: microsoft

A finesse may cause Romney and his CIO, Peter Quinn, to climb down from their insistence on ODF and keep Microsoft Office revenues flowing.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=508&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog