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- Does dual-licensing limit community?
- Does dual-licensing limit community?Opening up for more code contributionsI think the dual license approach has worked well for MySQL. It's part of the "quid pro quo" approach that we have used in our business. But there's no doubt that MySQL could do a better job accepting code contributions....
- Tags: Databases, code contribution, contribution, Zack
- Discussion threads 2008-12-23
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- Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge
- IE "Hit"I never understood this...."Internet Explorer?s market share also took a battering, dropping by a massive 1.26%, taking its market share to a new low of 65.7%. This is a huge hit for Microsoft."What kind of hit? IE could go away and MS wouldn't lose a dime because it seems...
- Tags: Web browsers, MarketShare, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Chrome, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Linux kernel dev team grows, Torvalds drops off the chart
- The future is appliance/deviceThe future is Linux based Appliances along with Linux based devices, the days of having 20G Windows Operating Systems to do email are over.Considering all drivers are considered a part of the kernelthat's not a lot at all. Very few of those lines of code wind up...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux kernel, team, Linux, lines of code
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Opt Me Out! The United States Postal Service Needs an Overhaul
- The volume of physical spam I receive, aka junk mail, is now becoming an absolutely intolerable situation. Nothing less than a complete overhaul of the entire US Postal Service is in order. My friend and colleague David Strom, over at his site Strominator.com,...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., U.S. Postal Service, Web Site Development, Cyberthreats, Web Technology, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Google plugs 3D hardware into Chrome
- Google plugs 3D hardware into Chrome The Siren's callGoogle keeps tempting the tech community with new and exciting software. But, until they commit to stop recording private data about individual users of their products, everyone with an ounce of sense should boycott their products.Until then, Google remains the biggest...
- Tags: Games, C/C++, Google Inc., Siren, game, Web browser, compiler
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?
- Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?Doesn't this prove that MS patent claims against Linux were a scam?If it really violated their patents, why would they release code for it?RE: Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?Microsoft is simply acknowledging that which most "pundits" such as Ms Rooney...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., GPL 2, Linux, big deal, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
- Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux codeWSFU GPLWindows Services for UNIX has some GPL utilities in it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321712VMWARE Lower TCO, Higher ReliabilitySmart shops will skip virtualization from MS - garbage at its best. Resume generating event at its worst.RE: Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Linux Code
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline
- Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source inclineWith Apache, you can permit anybody to contribute, no questions asked, nothing to sign, and STILL sell proprietary versions to clients. With GPL, you have to make third party contributors sign everything over to you, which they often resent, and...
- Tags: Java development tools, Tony, open source, Eclipse, Apache Software Foundation, EPL, GPL
- Discussion threads 2009-07-16
- Why the first Chrome netbooks may not be so revolutionary
- Why the first Chrome netbooks may not be so revolutionaryAndroid...not Chrome...From all indications Acer will be releasing and Android based netbook next month. I highly doubt there is any way Chrome's release could go from next year to next month.Where is the source code?If the OEMs are releasing a Linux...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- 'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'
- Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive which owns CNet and ZDNet. Now he’s in his third month as chief executive officer at Associated Content, the “people’s media†company. And...
- Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Quality, Content, Associated Content, Channel Management, Engineering, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Corel Home Office
- Thanks to an interface design that mirrors Microsoft Office 2007, Corel Home Office is familiar, attractive, and easy to navigate. A few color customizations let you personalize the software, but the accessible, responsive, and intuitive features and tools are what will satisfy users more. Lighter in features and modest...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Office, PRODUCTIVITY, Corel Corp., Microsoft Office 2007
- Product reviews 2009-06-17
- The Cisco surrender to open source
- The settlement announced Wednesday is everything open source could have wished. Cisco will ride herd on its Linksys subsidiary, where these violations have been taking place, it will notify customers of their rights, it will release the relevant source code, and it will make an unspecified "contribution" to the FSF....
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Surviving and thriving: or why MISO has it (mostly) wrong
- Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle collectively make up what Irregulars call MISO. Harsher critics might think they are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Whichever your chosen position I am coming to the view that the way they are going to market is wrong for the conditions in which we...
- Tags: CIO, Oracle Corp., Social Computing, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO, Vendor Response, David Dobrin, Vertica, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Windows 7 RC ready for public download
- Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadIt's the most highly anticipated OSIt's the most highly anticipated OS so it had to happen. However downloads aren't being interrupted :)RE: Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadI'm downloading now and I seem to be getting near my max speeds on a 7megs...
- Tags: Operating systems, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows 7, public download, Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Alfresco 3.1 offers parity with enterprise rivals
- Alfresco's open source enterprise content management system is now fully enterprise ready, and the timing couldn't be better, exes say. Alfresco 3.1, which was released today, has reached parity with and in some ways exceeds leading document management platforms such as Documentum and Filenet and leading web...
- Tags: Monitoring, Alfresco, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Microsoft rolls out Silverlight 3 beta and more developer goodies
- Microsoft rolls out Silverlight 3 beta and more developer goodiesSweet!Silverlight is a fantastic tech and is highly innovative.So? It's irrelevant.Silverlight is irrelevant. I expect the only thing that will ever unseat Flash as a multimedia widget will be some future open-source/no-license/no-hassle solution. Microsoft was fooling itself if it thought that...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...
- Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- The warning sound of TomTom
- The warning sound of TomTom As my grandmother used to say......"there's nothing worse than a reformed sinner."If someone will point me.....to Tom Tom's defense fund, I'll make a contribution.i hate hypocrites.MS is one of them. So are most people when it suites their needs.Wrong wrong wrong....TomTom has stolen valuable...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, middle finger, patent, Granny
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Will new Joslyn business model work
- All the company's proprietary code is going into open source projects, and the hope is that open source developers will work with his team at improvements or extensions. A committee will then decide how much a contribution is worth to new projects and pay out accordingly. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- The open source value of responsibility
- The open source value of responsibilityAre you kidding"To those who take more, who feel more, the open source priests, rabbis, imams and lamas, I personally want to salute you. By taking this value seriously you drive the movement forward. And you make society better as well."Movement? Better society? It's fucking...
- Tags: Android Phone, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
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