Date: 08/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

To blame the Internet for Jihad because Jihadists use it is like blaming Henry Ford for car bombs.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=405&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Let me offer a bit of advice unrelated to IT for just a moment. If you ever get the chance to take a road trip from Denver to San Francisco, take it. Some of the best scenery in the world lies between those two cities. Let me offer one other piece of advice -- [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=404&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/08/05     Keywords: linux

I'm among the first to say that open source means more than Linux. And I can't blame a show organizer for wanting to make money, for striking while the brand is hot. But is this a show you should be attending? Is this show really useful? Is this trip really necessary?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=403&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Paul Murphy suggested y'all might like an advice column. I agreed.We have different perspectives. He's technical and corporate. I'm not. But over the last several months the two viewpoints have proven valuable, a point-counterpoint for ZDNet readers.The idea is based on the advice columns produced for nearly 50 years now by the Friedman sisters of [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=402&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

I can easily imagine private apartment complexes and commercial structures using such language to keep WiFi out, then selling the "right" to "sell" such service to someone else.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=401&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/05/05     Keywords: linux

A few months ago, Linux Magazine columnist Jason Perlow suggested that Novell open SUSE Linux as a "public, open source project similar to Fedora." Thanks in part to Perlow's column, it looks like that's exactly what Novell is doing. Novell had planned to announce this at Linux World Conference and Expo, but it looks [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=400&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/04/05     Keywords: microsoft

At issue here are the SCO Source deals Microsoft and Sun signed-off on in 2003, which included "patents." What patents? That's what Novell wants to discover.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=399&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

One of the questions that is being asked regularly is "what is the business plan for open source?" This has always struck me as odd, as it is akin to asking "what is the business plan for punk rock?" or "what is the business plan for modern art?" Open source projects may need business [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=398&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

This is really overdue, but I can't help worrying about the Law of Unintended Consequences

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Date: 08/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

These are still Heathkit Days for robotics, with a few single-purpose hits like the Roomba and Aibo, but no unifying user interface to tie it all together, and no killer app for a general purpose machine.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=396&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/01/05     Keywords: software

I'd love to see a super-team of lawyers, using these tools, riding herd on every proprietary software outfit out there to make sure no GPL code gets into their stuff, ever again.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=395&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/30/05     Keywords: software, microsoft

As one might imagine, I occasionally disagree with fellow ZDNet blogger and Microsoft employee John Carroll, on topics like software patents, DRM and other issues. However, I'm mostly in agreement with Carroll on this one. (For the record, I'm also sick of Tom Cruise.) While I don't care [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=394&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

Most of the recipe is fairly conventional -- hops, malt, sugar -- but the students also added nearly a pound (300 grams) of Guarana beans, an ingredient from the Amazon that is usually found in sugared energy drinks, which also brings some caffeine with it.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=393&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

This post on Techdirt does a great job of summarizing the problem with patents: The patent system isn't designed to "protect the little guy." It's designed to promote innovation -- and that's what it needs to be judged on. Patents may make some sense in cases where a concept is truly [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=392&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/29/05     Keywords: security

Is timely disclosure -- an open source security process -- the key to a timely fix? Or do loose lips sink chips?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=391&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/28/05     Keywords: linux

At ZDNet, we often ask how Linux will ever crack the home market.It might come in through your next mobile phone, but most users won't know it, nor will they use it, as Linux.If you have a wireless router, you may have Linux, or as I've written it may be easy for you to get [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=390&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

Unix can't compete on a branding level with Windows. We have too many players, each with their own agenda, to put out a unified message. It's really up to you, no matter what flavor of Unix you use, to drive this message home.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=388&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/27/05     Keywords: security, microsoft

Microsoft is stepping up its Genuine Advantage program, and requiring a "piracy check" for all customers who want to download patches — excepting security updates — for Windows XP. This is a great strategy... for Microsoft's competition. I don't have any figures on the number of "pirated" copies of Windows XP, but [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=389&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/24/05     Keywords: software, microsoft

It’s this open source business model, not open source software per se, which I think proprietary companies like Microsoft and Oracle are unable to get their hands around. It’s the first great business invention of the 21st century. It’s changing the world in Internet Time.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=387&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

A JupiterMedia study, reported on by ComputerWorld, shows the Mac OS X operating system taking some significant hunks of market share in mid-sized and large businesses.While the survey found 17-21% of desktops and 9-14% of server users had Macs, it doesn't mean that OS X has complete control of those shops, or that their [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=386&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog