Date: 11/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

Insurance buildings are like casinos, in that they weren't built from the money of winners, only those who didn't get a pay-out.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=487&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Can we work on an open source system that will discourage mass market pirates while promoting fair use?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=486&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

The market success of GPL products, the fact that Lloyd's is now writing insurance in the space, the acceptance of the GPL's assumptions, all point to the health of the open source movement.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=485&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/02/05     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is moving toward a business model first pioneered in the mid-1990s by America Online.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=484&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

The details at this point are unimportant. They're a means to the ultimate end, a determination of whether SCO ever "owned" anything IBM could have "stolen." That's a decision for the Judge, Dale Kimball.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=482&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/31/05     Keywords: no keywords

In open source science the entire campus can share in the discovery process. It doesn't matter what your discipline is, you can find a role to play.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=481&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/28/05     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft is implicitly agreeing with us that a certain set of freedoms allows creators and users of code to collaborate more closely to produce higher quality software.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=480&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/27/05     Keywords: asp

I was plunged forcefully into an earlier time, into another century. Yes, it was the 20th. But I could only exchange information by talking to people, on the phone. My grasp of information was limited to newspapers and TV. (OK, cable.) I was starving.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=479&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

The link between cooperation and competition, sometimes called coopitition, is a controversial one in the open source world.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=478&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Most conflicts within the open source community, especially conflicts that appear to be about licensing, are really about the question of just how deep shared standards should go. It's about the placement of a border between what is shared and what is not, what's behind a fence and what's the frontier.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=477&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

Specifications are something like a business plan. You need them. But if you tie yourself too closely to them then you are going to fail.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=476&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/21/05     Keywords: blogging, browser, web

Do we need it? Is a replacement browser the way forward for Web 2.0 applications? Should blogging be done inside your Web client, or is that something for a server? Is this trip really necessary?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=475&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

Consensus has a bad habit of breaking down when money gets into the mix. Contracts are one replacement principle. Democracy is another. Power is a third. But none of these alternate values deliver what consensus delivers.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=474&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/19/05     Keywords: technology

The new business cycle is based on training. Technology is acquired, but it isn't adapted for use until buyers feel pressure to raise productivity. It takes time to learn, and a commitment that arises best out of need.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=473&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Code is not speech. It's property. That's what the law says, anyhow.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=472&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

For a consumer with a PC or two, the costs of Windows now includes some management services, and support. Even for a small network manager there are education and training costs to be paid up-front, plus the possibility of big-ticket service calls down the line.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=471&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/14/05     Keywords: mysql, sql

Cut through the PR-speak and it reads to me like concern, caution, watch it. Oracle could always buy mySQL, too.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=470&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/12/05     Keywords: security, linux

There are great tools for Linux security, and Linux security management can be first-rate, but the process needs to be completely automated before the mass market trusts it.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=469&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/12/05     Keywords: java, linux

If your shop is running any of these applications, programs written for Windows and just ported to Linux (rather than being rewritten in something like Java or re-architected entirely), I'd sure like to know how it's running.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=468&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/12/05     Keywords: technology

It is very easy to watermark photos and prevent them from downloading in the clear, but few people take advantage of that technology. Cost and complexity must be issues, because issuing threats is never any fun.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=467&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog