Date: 09/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

Short version of LMI's statement. That was just a preliminary decision. There are nasty people trying to seize this trademark in other countries. Send money.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=446&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

The attitude of American regulators toward the Internet today is charitably described as proprietary.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=445&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/16/05     Keywords: linux

Where does this leave the Linux Mark Institute, which was set up to defend the trademark? Nowhere, down under.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=444&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/16/05     Keywords: microsoft

There is, of course, a kind of hidden agenda here, namely a Microsoft plug-in for Visual Studio dubbed Grasshopper which they figure will be in the hands of the winners before the race starts.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=443&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/16/05     Keywords: software

Should the election software be open source or closed source? How open should it be? Should we be able to see it? Wouldn't that give hackers an easy way to control the election process? Or does our present use of closed source means they already have that?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=442&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Regardless of whether your process is proprietary or open source, you still need a process to collect bug reports, test patches, and expedite them to users. That process is always a bottleneck.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=441&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/14/05     Keywords: software

Hosted application services on an enterprise level has long been a dream of the software industry, something Salesforce is making a reality. But is any of this open source?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=440&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/13/05     Keywords: software, database

Oracle has spent billions consolidating its space, not just the big database software area but the application space.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=439&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/12/05     Keywords: microsoft

Rooting for Novell to gain against Microsoft is a little like rooting for the New York Mets to beat the Atlanta Braves. (Or the Braves to beat the Yankees.)

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=438&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

People on both sides need this precedent for guidance.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=437&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/10/05     Keywords: no keywords

Obviously most of us are Gray Hats, but as Christopher Lowell will tell you there are many shades of gray out there.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=436&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

By attaching his name on the fund, Perot gives his company poll position for building the electronic side of that market. Building such markets has been a Perot fascination for nearly a decade now.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=435&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

What is an open source evangelist, in a corporate setting?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=434&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

An order to release source in Europe is, in fact, an order to release it worldwide

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=433&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/07/05     Keywords: linux

Your Fortune 500 CIOs now have their Talking Points. It's up to Linux advocates to meet them with performance.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=432&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

We run openbook management, so all my contractors know exactly how much we’re making. So if we do X we can show the impact on Katrina survivors.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=431&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

The next step is harder, namely to merge some of these corporate licenses

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=430&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/01/05     Keywords: crm

CRM is mission-critical, even for small businesses. It's a major expense, and can be a major differentiator. If you can save money and gain more control over your system with open source, should you take the risk and take the plunge?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=429&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

This is open source according to Orwell. It's using the trademark, open source, it's using the open source community's efforts, the open source process, then it's shutting that down and making people buy the results.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=428&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

If a great project like Mambo can be split like this, it makes it that much more difficult for a business to trust its future to open source, any open source.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=427&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog