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- Should the next billion just pay it forward?
- Should the next billion just pay it forward?Not about the poorMS' $3 deal isn't about helping the poor.It's about maintaining their monopoly into the future and an attempt to prevent wide-scale Linux adoption.Altruism has noting to do with this. MS' motivations are purely self-preservation.I believe the topics are differentI would...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, altruism, Microsoft Corp., server
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- Altruism and open source
- Altruism and open sourcealtruism and closed sourceBill Gates has to date given away $27 billion to a foundation that will work toward the betterment of the under privileged.Also Gates has said that he would give away the rest of his fortune (currently $54 billion) to the cause.Warren Buffet will give...
- Tags: open source, altruism
- Discussion threads 2006-09-25
- Open source, altruism, and the business model problem
- Open source, altruism, and the business model problemAltruism vs. CooperationCooperation isn't always altruistic. As the "gain" of a system increases [1], it takes less and less in the way of reciprocity to justify sharing.For instance, open source is often compared to barn raisings. The problem with the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software movement, open source, altruism, software
- Discussion threads 2005-05-09
- Open source, altruism, and the business model problem
- While at an event called Blognashville over the weekend it dawned on me that many open source projects, and bloggers, share a very basic problem. Their business processes seem backward.Bloggers and open source projects often start with their own unmet needs. The bloggers want to be heard. Open source contributors...
- Tags: open source, motive
- Blog posts 2005-05-09
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- Microsoft, Creative Financing, and the Bank of EAC
- Microsoft's announcement that it would offer 0% financing to new customers of its Dynamics product line is a welcome offering at a time when the credit crisis requires out-of-the-box solutions to the fact that a bunch of ungrateful banks are unwilling to loan the taxpayer those megabucks we lent them...
- Tags: Bank, Financing, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signaturesGold mineExpect that if VeriSign has the key authority, they'll require VeriSign certificates. In effect, this will amount to VeriSign being paid for every domain, and considering the number of domains at stake and VeriSign's rates, that's a [b]very[/b] large sum of money that...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, DNS, VeriSign Inc., e-mail, DNS machine, centralized authority, DNSSEC, digital signature
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Open source as industrial policy
- Open source as industrial policythe EC patriots will bring M$ downwith the EU commision spearheading the the fight against the M$ beast, Linux will level the field and force M$ to compete on merits.Now is the time to prevent an Apple monopoly[i]"The Commission must do its part," said Kroes. "It...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, industrial policy, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary softwareA comment and a typo to correctFirst the typo:[i]Sugar, even on Windows, always *was* and always will be open source. [/i]At least I think that's what you meant to say.[i]But let’s not throw babies out with bathwaters. Just because Ferraris are fun cars...
- Tags: Web browsers, open source, Stallman, Netscape Communications Corp., software, proprietary software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Trouble at OLPC? That's OK, they started the revolution
- OLPC is in the midst of corporate reorganization, hardware difficulties, manufacturing and distribution challenges, and an overall dulling of their original vision as Nicholas Negroponte rails against "open source fundamentalism" and tries to further align himself with Microsoft. According to Ars Technica, There...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Should Mozilla go public? In a word: No.
- Should Mozilla go public? In a word: No.Being open source is better than being publicBeing open source is just a different form of being public. It is just a matter of who you want calling the shots - the developers, or the accountants. I think the developers will...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- Leaping Lemmings (exe)
- One day, Norwegian fishermen Birger and Roald are returning home from a long day of fishing, when they spotted a herd of adorable fat fuzzy lemmings stampeding off a cliff into the ocean as they are known to sometimes do. Overwelmed with pity and mindless altruism, they land their boat...
- Tags: Hamster Republic
- Software downloads 2007-12-06
- Your best work for a chance at cash and prizes
- The headline above is incredibly snarky. I apologize for it. But there's a serious point to be made concerning Simon Phipps' announcement of a multi-year program of cash and prizes aimed at spurring open source development around Sun-run projects. That point being your motivation....
- Tags: India, Phipps, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts examine 'Microsoft-Oriented Architecture' and evaluate SOA's role in 'Green IT'
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 27, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus,...
- Tags: Green IT, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Green, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Google's OpenSocial: What it means
- Google's open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. see Techmeme. Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google's open party. So far, besides Google's Orkut social net, LinkedIn,...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Network, Goal, User, OpenSocial, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- "User-centric" starts with the social, not the commercial
- I'm on a bit of a tear today, but it is because I just got over a week of Percodan-induced drooling after I had some surgery on my aging shoulder. I don't know if it is just that I am coherent for the first time since last Friday or that...
- Tags: Bank, Intermediary, Money, Financial Services, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Every hyperlink tells a story: A tale of one would-be 'Web Samaritan'
- Every hyperlink tells a story: A tale of one would-be 'Web Samaritan'Being open is bestI think there are many ways to help on the internet and in some cases, these also present or require that you may make money. For example, if you create a Google custom search engine they...
- Tags: Channel management, INTERNET, Web Samaritan, Web, Google Inc., benefit
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- Symphony plays on in Notes 8
- It's the morning after IBM's Lotus Collaboration Summit, at which IBM announced that the reincarnation of an ODF-compliant Lotus Symphony is integrated into Notes 8 -- as well as being offered as a free download. The media coverage conveys that IBM is trying to win over the Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Media Coverage, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Maurene Caplan Grey
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Apple, AT&T: Bosom buddies or odd couple?
- Apple, AT&T: Bosom buddies or odd couple?Yankee Group's "opinion" is worth something?I would say that historically, Apple's partners have screwed THEM. Cases in point: Microsoft (convicted for extortion in the default IE for Office for Mac for 5 years deal and ordered to sell Apple stock); Adobe (creating...
- Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows, INTERNET, Tools & Techniques, WIRELESS, Desktops, The Yankee Group, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Singularity Summit 2007: How to be a Singular boy scout
- It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...
- Tags: Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Thiel, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Offshore outsourcing rates headed higher
- Offshore outsourcing rates headed higherHope they are enjoying thieir 'bargain' service...That's what you get when you think short-term.Which means its a good time to stop offshoringWith the cost of offshore outsourcing increasing its a good time to reevaluate that position and correct that mistake by bring the work back in...
- Tags: Outsourcing, offshore outsourcing, US/EU
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
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