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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

Additional Resources

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Should doctors go on strike?

Should doctors go on strike?Big government is the cause... of crazy medical expense. We need less regulation so there's less room for the insurance company and lawyer manipulation that jacks the medical cost. Obama's more government involvement is the wrong solution.No, life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessare fundamental human...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Medical Care, Obama, Big Government, health care, medical care, HIPPA

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

Using selfishness to put crowds to work for you

Using selfishness to put crowds to work for youGood griefHave we become this ignorant where the concept of Adam Smith's invisible hand is counter-intuitive and surprising?No wonder we've elected a freaking marxist as president.Code without good documentation has difficulty reaching critical massWhile some simple utilities can get by without documentation,...

Tags: Wiki, Investment, Self-Interest, good documentation, selfishness

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Using selfishness to put crowds to work for you

How do you enable "the wisdom of crowds"? Part of the power of community is that a group of people can solve problems much more easily than individuals, but only if you can provide tools that make it possible for them to do so and appeal to their own interests....

Tags: Stock, Documentation, Derek Powazek, Open Source, Investment, Finance, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?

Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?I like the idea in theory but then you are doubling worm traffic due to the good guys fighting the bad guys. One way around that is to have a worm kill switch to kill it once all...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, worm, good worm, Conficker problem, Conficker

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint

I'm at the Open Source Business Conference where Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America and Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM Corporation have just keynoted. This is my third OSBC, a conference primarily framed...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Budgeting Reality, Business Goal, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Social media and charity: philanthropy or crass opportunism?

Social media and charity: philanthropy or crass opportunism?you tell meHow many people have heard of P&G, and how many have heard of Feed America? Exactly.It IS a win scenario for everyone, even if only 10 bucks was made for the charity. That's 10 bucks more than they had,...

Tags: social media

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Microsoft 'elevates America' with free job training

Microsoft 'elevates America' with free job trainingDOJ 2.0DOJ 2.0, simply means that when I was with MS a few years back, this idea was floated out to gain the Mind Share and thus fortify the adoption of MS products in IT shops. Most of these people can already receive...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, training and certification, Microsoft Corp., job training, training, job

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Apple: If you don

Apple: If you donFollow your own adviceWhy don't you all just take a pay cut and then do less work for ZDNet?Wouldn't that show Apple that's the way forward?C'mon, you do less, slower and charge ZDNet less for it, then we can all have a cheaper ZDNet and maybe less...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Mini 9, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-22

Lease yourself some green blades or storage

OK, I'm SURE all of data center equipment vendor Verari Systems' competitors MUST offer leasing as a transaction option, but I haven't heard anyone else appeal so blatantly to green budgets or corporate mandates. The company has introduced what it is calling the Green Leasing Program, which...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Blade, Lease, Leasing, Verari Financial Services Group, Data Centers, Capital Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Investment, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-13

Android needs more U.S. carrier support

Android needs more U.S. carrier supportCarrier Support?You can throw in the entire Battle Group, frigates and all, I still do not see Android as beneficial to the service providers as it would the service providers benefiting to Android.It boils down to who needs who more?ATT, Sprint, Verizon incapable of...

Tags: T-Mobile, carrier, U.S. Carrier, phone

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

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