Date: 04/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

When an analyst trying to build a business gets calls from the press, it's normal to "give good quote," to try and go along with the reporter's assumptions in hopes of getting called back. The danger is you wind up stringing along controversies that don't exist, and causing havoc in a market that needs sagacity, not self-promotion.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=248&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

There's an interesting discussion going on right now about the effect of using GPL'ed fonts in a document. Some users on the Scribus list were concerned that using GPL'ed fonts in a document might subject the document itself to the GPL what with the GPL's greatly-exaggerated "viral" properties.(There is also the question [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=247

Date: 04/21/05     Keywords: software

Thin clients have a long and somewhat tortured history. Every once in a while, they make sense. Then some new demand comes from the shop floor, for usability or software that runs only on the clients, and the trend wanes.Right now the trend is waxing. Hardware has raced ahead of software. The big costs now [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=246

Date: 04/21/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft will support instances of Red Hat Linux in its Virtual Server and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). Joking that it hurts my eyes CEO Steve Ballmer watched Red Hat Linux running on an early version of Virtual Server Service Pack 1, due for release by year-end.Ballmer also showed MOM controlling Sun Solaris boxes, and admitted working [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=245

Date: 04/20/05     Keywords: linux

Back in the early days, before the stock market collapsed upon itself and Caldera turned evil, one of the problems in promoting Linux was certification programs that would allow hiring managers to sort the wheat from the chaff when going through resumes. While certification programs are by no means perfect -- certification won't usually [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=244

Date: 04/20/05     Keywords: linux

It's called CHAOS, and it takes unused cycles from any PC on your network, then harnesses them for use by an application which needs them.It's a good example of a point made by several readers here the last few days, that adding new features to Linux simply makes Linux better, not more unwieldy. CHAOS uses [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=243

Date: 04/19/05     Keywords: software, linux

Linux is a robust, scalable, modular operating system, which is extensible by anyone, and can interoperate with nearly anything. This is the power of open source. But there are other equally powerful, equally open technologies out there.The Internet is a robust, scaled transport protocol. WiFi offers inexpensive local networking. Link sensors with software under these standards [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=242

Date: 04/18/05     Keywords: linux

Is Linux becoming like Windows, so overwhelmed with features that it's bloated.Some people are starting to think so. There is support for so many features in the Linux 2.6 kernel that it may be getting so fat as to be unstable. (Just add one more feature. It's wafer-thin.) Andrew Morton of OSDL, who currently maintains [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=241

Date: 04/18/05     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft seems to realize that many people take its sponsored studies with a grain of salt. So, why would the folks in Redmond -- or any other vendor, for that matter -- go to the trouble to finance a study that they know will be dismissed as biased?  Microsoft knows [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=240

Date: 04/15/05     Keywords: web

SCO is still swinging in its legal war. But the show could soon close. The company had a conference call on the quarterly report filed in April and blamed the Groklaw web site for its financial troubles.  The company also issued its 10-Q filing with the SEC, dated April 14. On the call [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=239

Date: 04/15/05     Keywords: linux

If your hardware vendor or free Linux application requires that you use a paid Linux distribution, is it still free?Paul Murphy says it's a scam, one IBM is perpetrating.  Specifically he points to Red Hat's server support license for enterprises, at $799 per processor. the impracticalities combine with the licensing requirement to render both the [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=238

Date: 04/14/05     Keywords: microsoft

Today I matched the latest arguments on the blog of Microsoft's Jason Matusow against concerns expressed in the latest Gartner survey on open source, reported by ZDNet DataPoint.They match up pretty well.Fragmentation caused by multiple distributions?? Large IT shops want to decrease complexity, manage risk, and reduce cost, says Matusow. Higher support costs? Linus? Law [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=237

Date: 04/14/05     Keywords: web

Matthew Thomas has posted a very critical look at Ubuntu on his weblog. Actually, he calls it "My first 48 hours enduring Ubuntu 5.04," which follows his 48 hours enduring Mac OS X. Thomas is an interface designer, and he has plenty to say about the Ubuntu interface, some of ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=236&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/13/05     Keywords: web

No field has been transformed by open source as much as journalism.I'm referring both to open source as in free, and open source as in see the source code. The free Web challenges journalism business models as nothing has before. The industry is still reeling. Even when magazines were given ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=235&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/13/05     Keywords: web

Matthew Thomas has posted a very critical look at Ubuntu on his weblog. Actually, he calls it "My first 48 hours enduring Ubuntu 5.04," which follows his 48 hours enduring Mac OS X. Thomas is an interface designer, and he has plenty to say about the Ubuntu interface, some of which I can agree with, [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=236

Date: 04/13/05     Keywords: web

No field has been transformed by open source as much as journalism.I'm referring both to open source as in free, and open source as in see the source code. The free Web challenges journalism business models as nothing has before. The industry is still reeling. Even when magazines were given away, it was in exchange [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=235

Date: 04/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

When I wrote about Computer Associates Senior VP Sam Greenblatt's cunning plan, I assumed he wanted to replace the CDDL with a template, and encourage companies to use template-based licenses instead of BSD or GPL licenses. I didn't think he was proposing to replace the GPL. That's the market's job. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=234&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

When I wrote about Computer Associates Senior VP Sam Greenblatt's cunning plan, I assumed he wanted to replace the CDDL with a template, and encourage companies to?use template-based licenses instead of BSD or GPL licenses. I didn't think he was proposing to replace the GPL. That's the market's job. The key to?his plan is IBM's [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=234

Date: 04/11/05     Keywords: java

JavaWorld has a piece that asks the question, who should maintain open source projects? Obviously, this is looking beyond the many one-man open source projects that are part of the ecosystem and focusing on the big dogs of the open source space. The article looks at two ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=233&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/11/05     Keywords: linux

File this under Irony.Stephen Shankland reports development of the Linux kernel may slow because Linus Torvalds is having to abandon a proprietary tool called BitKeeper, which he'd used since 2002 to keep on top of things.BitKeeper had been offering a stripped-down free version to the Linux community, but pulled it ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=232&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog