Date: 06/21/05     Keywords: linux

One of the things hampering the whole open source movement today is our failure to count and report our successes. As I put it in something I wrote for Linuxinsider almost two years ago:  In management you get what you measure; in volume sales, you get what the press reports. In the case of Linux [...]

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Date: 06/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

Well, it looks like it was premature to call the broadcast flag dead for the year. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), rumor has it that an amendment reviving the broadcast flag will be introduced Tuesday in the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science sub-committee to be tacked on to an appropriations bill. When [...]

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Date: 06/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

There's a simple bottom line to all this, and a very unsimple consequence. The bottom line is that organizations whose technical staff plan services around both their own measurement issues and the needs of proxy cache users can do much better on counting and verification than organizations whose staffs treat measurement as something that happens after they've done their jobs.

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Date: 06/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

For now, I'd say take the GPL at its word and change only if a court says so.

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Date: 06/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

It's been a little more than a year since Jonathan Schwartz confirmed that Sun was going to open source Solaris, and it looks like the big day has finally come: OpenSolaris is now available to everybody under an honest-to-goodness OSI-approved open source license. (Actually, several licenses, if you count the other open source tools [...]

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Date: 06/17/05     Keywords: sql

Going from Quel to SQL is like going from APL to COBOL

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Date: 06/16/05     Keywords: microsoft

Given his skills and his need to support a family, Robbins is a perfect fit for Microsoft. He will spend his time advising Microsoft product teams on open source development, testing, and deployment issues.

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Date: 06/16/05     Keywords: software

Forbes says it so it must be true. Open source software is a scam that open source software companies are running on themselves. The "news hook" here is IBM offering its recently-acquired Gluecode code free, in a move that seems aimed at JBoss. Author Daniel Lyons finds himself practically laughing at JBoss chief Marc Fleury [...]

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Date: 06/16/05     Keywords: database

Taken together these measures let him assure user management that he'd put a two million dollar machine at their disposal and was draining his budget at $3,000 per day for two of the finest, Oracle trained, on-site database experts ever to walk the earth

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Date: 06/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Now that Debian Sarge is finally out the door (insert big applause for the Debian folks for passing that milestone), what comes next? Obviously, work begins on Etch, the next release -- but what should Debian's priorities be? Ian Murdock has a few suggestions. Two, actually: [...]

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Date: 06/15/05     Keywords: browser

Amid all the hoopla about Nokia tying up with Apple and open source, developing a version of the Safari browser for its Series 60 cell phones, what has not been mentioned is its impact on the continuing BSD vs. GPL debate.Apple's own open source work is strictly under the BSD (whose logo is this little [...]

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Date: 06/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

One of the odd things about the operation of the social welfare system is that somebody, somewhere, in at least one arm of the total system - justice, wellfare, immigration, mental health services - somebody knows what the social worker needs to know. Did Joe, a violent career criminal from another city, announce his intention of living with his sister -and twin three year olds- to an outreach worker at the John Howard Society's halfway house? Somebody somewhere in the system knows, but the case worker doesn't.

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Date: 06/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

When a closed source project gets most of the way there, its owner will redouble efforts to win market share. When an open source project gets most of the way there, its developer doesn't have a big incentive to make changes -- it works fine for them.

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Date: 06/14/05     Keywords: microsoft

Oracle is not universally beloved, and is at serious risk of seeing its market retire as more and more systems decision making falls to younger people whose first loyalties might be to Microsoft or Open Source, instead of to IBM or Oracle. That's the market enterpriseDB is going after, and by all reports I've seen so far, they might well have the product to do it.

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Date: 06/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Expansive predictions just don't work in this space. So it's important that we get our heads around what open source is and isn't.

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Date: 06/13/05     Keywords: microsoft

The court didn't buy the "I'm too smart to have done that" argument, but the Europeans may have just done it to themselves too -and face the same bottom line Apple did: getting exactly nothing from Microsoft.

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Date: 06/10/05     Keywords: software, asp

Sourcelabs is 100% behind the "political" aspect of Perens' life, his work against software patents and the DRM shut-out of Open Source from content players. You might say they like him, they really like him.

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Date: 06/10/05     Keywords: linux

It may strike you as interesting that it's 1998 and he still thinks of Linux as "free Unix for the 386" but what should be thought provoking is the clarity of his decision. There's no absolutism or partisanship here: he choose the GPL, not because it was morally better for everyone, but because it offers a better fit to his personal needs.

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Date: 06/10/05     Keywords: java, web, tracker

With all the noise about Apple's decision to switch to Intel chips (in a few years...) there hasn't been much made of the WebKit Open Source Project, including CVS access to WebCore and JavaScriptCore, public bug tracker, public mailing lists and IRC channel to better work with the open source community.   [...]

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Date: 06/09/05     Keywords: microsoft

A lot has been written this week about Apple's switch from IBM to Intel chips.Not a lot has been written about what IBM might do now.According to John Spooner of eWeek the answer is open source. The chip business is moving in two directions at once, toward mass production and mass customization.A Microsoft order for [...]

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