Date: 08/29/05     Keywords: no keywords

You can use the word Internet, capital I and all, to mean anything you wish.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=426&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/28/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

The report of a meeting between OSDL and Microsoft has raised a few eyebrows this week. To recap, Microsoft's Martin Taylor and OSDL's CEO Stuart Cohen met at Linux World Conference & Expo. Taylor proposed that Microsoft and OSDL do a joint research project for a study of Linux and Windows. [...]

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Date: 08/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

I touched on Sun's DRM plans earlier this week, so I thought I'd throw in this release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It looks like the EFF takes a dim view of Sun's so-called "Open Media Commons." "No one woke up this morning and said, 'I [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=424&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Would open source be better served if we had more mergers in this space, and fewer players?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=423&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/25/05     Keywords: microsoft

As much fun as it may be to tweak Microsoft, or dream of open source breaking the Microsoft monopoly, the fact remains that mobile monopolies are tighter, bigger (in terms of units) and under much less threat from open source programmers.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=421&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Strategic leadership in open source is like herding cats, and thus giving everyone the same marketing direction becomes nearly impossible. It leaves most projects without the scale to compete when what they're doing becomes really hot.

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Date: 08/25/05     Keywords: google

I'm a bit underwhelmed with the launch of Google Talk, which is a bit of a surprise, since Google has a history of coming up with decent services. I use Google Search dozens of times every day, and check Google News every hour or so when I'm at the computer. (More if I'm procrastinating... [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=419&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

Is Sun's "open" DRM a desirable alternative to proprietary DRM systems, or yet another nail in the casket of fair use?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=418&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

Seriously, IBM has put down some cash on this number. Try $1 billion, said Duncan.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=417&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

If a trademark owner doesn't protect their mark, it loses its meaning and may eventually go lower case -- Xerox becomes xerox. But how can you protect a mark when one of its chief values is that it's given away?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=416&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

Still catching up on my blog reading after my trip to LWCE, and the long car trip back. This post on Copyfight highlights an important point about the DMCA and how it relates to open source. The DMCA has largely been a failure at fighting illicit copying, but the unintended [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=415&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

The general rule is that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The TANSTAAFL rule still applies. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=414&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/18/05     Keywords: programming, linux

Language creates patterns of thought that affect everything else you do, including programming. If the cutting edge of Linux becomes Chinese (or when it becomes Chinese), what are you going to do?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=413&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/17/05     Keywords: linux

If openSUSE can move the needle of Linux desktop acceptance, even just a little bit, it's a very good thing indeed.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=412&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/17/05     Keywords: linux

At LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last week, I went to Novell's press conference on OpenSUSE, and sat down with Novell's Director of Marketing for Linux, Greg Mancusi-Ungaro to talk about the project and how Novell plans to differentiate OpenSUSE from Fedora. As Dana points out, the project doesn't seem to be setting the world on [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=411&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

IBM is a big leader in important technologies, like voice, that the disabled rely upon, and creating something that grows demand can't be bad.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=410&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Given the fact that it's a community that drives better in the case of open source, first-mover advantage may actually be more important here than in the commercial world.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=409&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Real insurance, the kind of policies Lloyd's writes, is a form of gambling.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=408&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/12/05     Keywords: database

An interesting press release came in from the folks at Clarkson University today. (Go Golden Knights.) It celebrated the victory of grad students Todd M. DeShane and Patricia A. Jablonski in the second TuxMasters competition, sponsored by Unisys and the OSDL. Another Clarkson team finished second.The winning entry was a database project, a system for [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=407&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/10/05     Keywords: no keywords

We have a mandate in the open source world generally not to do evil. I think it's the unspoken part of the open source contract. But that's not as easy to do as it sounds.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=406&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog