Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: microsoft

I planned to go after John Dvorak's Creative Commons humbug, but I got beat, and that's good.So let's instead take a look at the latest from Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager for platform strategy.For News.Com's Eileen Yu, Taylor recently went all Karl Rove on open source, saying things you frankly have to believe in [...]

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Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: asp

You'd think that Creative Commons is a pretty simple concept to grasp. However, John Dvorak's recent column about the Creative Commons licenses shows that it is indeed possible to completely miss the point. (And get a column out of it, to boot.) I'd been meaning to blog about Dvorak's column, to clear [...]

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Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

The news that IBM will stop selling OS/2 is not surprising. What is surprising, to me at least, is that there are users who still care about OS/2 (apparently quite deeply) and are asking IBM to release OS/2 as open source. Obviously, it's not as simple as all that. IBM doesn't own [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=382&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

Our own George Ou has a long item up today questioning whether WiMax can deliver its promises of true open source communication.He will get no argument from me. It's very possible I've been laboring under great misapprehension, and that so have many WiFi advocates. If WiMax can't get frequencies cleared it can't fulfill its potential, [...]

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Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

There are no follow-on suits, there is no second act to this drama, no sequel is in the works, the series is not being renewed.

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Date: 07/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

If you reset the router, or if there's a power surge that knocks out the power, you have to re-install. But it does give you a chance to start playing with medical, inventory, and home control programs that live independently of your PC set-up.

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Date: 07/15/05     Keywords: security

The Mozilla folks have released another security update this week, though I noticed that there's a lot less media chatter about these security fixes than the last round. Perhaps there's something to this eWeek article that notes that a lot of updates were rolled out Tuesday (Firefox was one) in the same timeframe of [...]

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Date: 07/15/05     Keywords: software

Vulnerability management is a service, not software, and one well worth paying for.

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Date: 07/14/05     Keywords: security, linux

How secure would Linux be if everyone were using it?Given the popularity of Linux as a server OS, especially among Internet servers, I think it would be pretty secure.But would it really be more secure than Windows?The question occurs because of this story from ZDNet's Joris Evans, posted yesterday. It's about two security alerts on [...]

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Date: 07/13/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Are there any Microsoft applications you would buy tomorrow if they came out on Linux? Or does having Linux mean you've divorced everything Microsoft for all time?

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Date: 07/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Yesterday, I promised a follow-up on the Ubuntu Foundation and comments from Debian Founder and Progeny Chairman and Chief Strategist Ian Murdock.  One of the things that was up in the air yesterday was the possible creation of an "enterprise" Debian distribution. An eWeek story last week cited sources "close to [...]

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Date: 07/12/05     Keywords: yahoo, google

We are getting a great demonstration right now of open source power, as applications using the Google Maps API begin to appear.Mapquest, owned by AOL, has been around for many years, but it's a proprietary offering. Yahoo Maps has been around for years, but it has been late to this party. It's Google, using the [...]

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Date: 07/11/05     Keywords: software

As a happy Ubuntu user, I was pleased last week when I received a note announcing the Ubuntu Foundation. The Ubuntu Foundation was created to fund development of Ubuntu and to separate Ubuntu development from Canonical, which supports Ubuntu and open source software. Mark Shuttleworth has put $10 million into the Foundation, to help [...]

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Date: 07/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

Throwing money at people, making them comfortable before they have performed for you, doesn't really work for anyone.

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Date: 07/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

Every complex civilization will develop complex systems that can be destroyed through the concentrated efforts of small groups.

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Date: 07/08/05     Keywords: linux

Is it inertia, can that inertia be broken, or is there another reason we don't give Linux a chance?

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Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: spam

 Russell Shaw has an interesting tip for PR types, set up a Wikipedia entry and keep it updated. He points to the Skype article on Wikipedia -- which is certainly a detailed article on Skype, and looks like it is fairly neutral, as opposed to Wikipedia Spam. I have to [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=369&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Willis and Sebastian showed me how I could quickly use the engine's Wiki tools to add that tag to the existing Scoop entry in about 30 seconds.

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Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Over the weekend I read J.D. Lasica's (right) book about the Copyright Wars, Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, and was surprised to find open source as an underlying theme.In breaking down the boundaries between consuming and producing media, people really want an open source model for it, he writes:On a mundane level, the [...]

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Date: 07/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

It's been a long and arduous saga, but it looks like the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID) has finally been soundly defeated, 648-14. I have to admit, I'm a little surprised by this result since it seemed likely at many points that this would get shoved through despite overwhelming opposition. It looks [...]

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