Date: 03/31/05     Keywords: no keywords

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the creator of del.icio.us should be very flattered. ZDNet's Datapoint notes the appearance of de.lirio.us which is, for all intents and purposes, an open source clone of the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. (If you haven't tried del.icio.us out yet, I highly ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=213&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/30/05     Keywords: software

One of the big criticisms of open source is its apparent lack of a business model.If you're not selling software, if you're letting customers see the code, where is the money coming from to keep the doors open?We know the answers to this from a corporate perspective. Companies like IBM ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=212&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/29/05     Keywords: software

Is open source Communism in software form? (I had Karl Marx join us to set the mood.)That's the question asked by Kenneth Brown's Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, which draws backing from leading right-wing foundations. Brown has been after open source before. A recent TechWorld column charges his whole argument ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=210&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/28/05     Keywords: security

There are great open source products for nearly every purpose. But I have yet to find many in the security field. Most seem hand-written, based on books like the O'Reilly Secure Progrmaming Cookbook. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. If I'm not, please point to your favorite open source security ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=209&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/25/05     Keywords: software, linux

ZDNet UK has a piece about concerns over the next version of the GNU General Public License. The article points to a thread on the Debian Legal mailing list, discussing the fact that the Linux kernel is distributed exclusively under the GPL version 2. Most GPL'ed software is distributed under ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=208&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/25/05     Keywords: microsoft

In his interview last week with our own David Berlind Microsoft open source strategist Jason Matusow (right) articulated a new open source concept I call negotiable source.Negotiable source means you can negotiate for some open source rights and the responsibility that comes with them. As Matusow wrote in his own ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=207&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/24/05     Keywords: technology, microsoft

Mass market endorsements can have a powerful 'bandwagon' effect. (The illustration and headline come from The Band Wagon starring Fred Astaire. ) The bandwagon effect can validate decisions. It can encourage defections.Such campaigns are older than technology, and right now Microsoft is aiming just such a pitch at users of ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=206&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) goes on sale tomorrow. Though I have a PS2 and a shelf full of games, I don't really consider myself much of a gamer, so I won't be queueing up at midnight tonight or rushing to the store first thing tomorrow to snag a PSP, but ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=205&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: linux

Here is a story that hasn't gotten much media love this week.Novell will combine several products into a suite it says can replace Windows for a small business.The bundle includes three server licenses for Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, GroupWise and eDirectory. The price is $475 for a ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=204&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: security, linux, microsoft

Whenever I see a study I look at who sponsored it. Take this for example. It's a study from Security Innovation Inc. claiming Linux servers are less secure than those running Windows.Are you surprised it was sponsored by Microsoft?I wrote such papers in a previous life and believe it or ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=203&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/23/05     Keywords: technology

It's a pity that so much (virtual) ink about open source has to be about legalities rather than technical issues. While I find the law interesting, I don't think it's as much fun or as fascinating as the technology. But, for the foreseeable future, lawyers are going to play a ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=202&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

As open source tools become more professional service revenue can replace license revenue naturally. JBoss, based near my home in Atlanta, is Exhibit A. Don't let CTO Scott Stark's outfit fool you. That's authentic JBoss swag he's sporting. JBoss runs what it calls the Professional Open Source Model. It ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=201&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/21/05     Keywords: software

Larry Rosen (right), former general counsel for the Open Source Initiative, has not turned against the General Public License (GPL). He remains a strong open source advocate. His book, Open Source Licensing : Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law has drawn good reviews at Amazon.Com, along with endorsements ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=197&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/21/05     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft's anti-interoperability license has been rejected by the European Commission. (That's the same EC that's bullying through the anti-competitive patent directive.) That's good news for open source, and anyone who's looking to migrate away from the Redmond behemoth, or simply run a mixed shop with open source software and Microsoft ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=198&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Please note. I don't believe the following. I am making a devil's advocate argument in order to stimulate discussion. Maybe this can get us through the weekend. It occurred to me, seeing how Brazil and other developing nations are warming to open source, often with the blessing of U.S. universities, ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=196&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: google

Sometimes stories come across your desk, within minutes of each other, that are so contradictory you have to laugh.First we have Google, courting open source developers for its Google Code project. It's a repository for good, useful, even cool code, based on open sourced Google code, which the company hopes ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=195&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

A ZDNet story that originated with Consulting News builds an intriguing mystery.Why haven't big consulting firms pursued the open source opportunity?Consulting News, based in London, features news about many big consultancies on its home page, but this story is an interview with Mark Taylor, executive director of the Open Source ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=194&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: software

What you need to deal with your open source management headaches may just be a big hunk of expensive, proprietary, closed source software. That s what OpenLogic thinks because they released Version 3.1 of a product called BlueGlue. (They also got $4 million in venture capital.) Vice president-marketing Andy Grolnick ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=193&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: linux

Our own Stephen Shankland has a story out illustrating the continuing confusion over the word Linux. The story is that Harald Welte, who runs the GPL Violations Project, found 13 hardware companies at CeBIT who were violating the GPL of GNU-Linux by not releasing code based on it."The GPL is ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=192&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: php, microsoft

Despite pleas from its developers, Microsoft is ending free support for Visual Basic 6 this month.For the open source community, this is no great loss. Actually, it's not even a blip on the radar -- open source developers will continue to chug along, writing code in Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=191&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog