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- Monkcast #10: One day, they'll grow fruit with bar codes on the skin & Yeah! Socialtext
- In this week's Monkcast, our 10th joint production between the research outfit Redmonk and ZDNet, we ponder worldly topics such as the idea of cows making skim milk. Apparently, this is already being done somewhere (eeek!) and we can only wonder when, if ever, fruit and veggies will be grown...
- Tags: Common Public Attribution License, David Berlind, General, Legal, MonkCast Podcast, Open Source, OSI, Podcasts, Socialtext, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
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- Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worlds
- Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worldsQuake 3 predates this patent by two yearsQuake 3 would seem to run counter to this patent, as would Tribes, and several other online games from the 90s. The core concepts of such online interactions were also presented in the 90s movie...
- Tags: Quake 3, patent, virtual world, patent litigation
- Discussion threads 2008-12-30
- Jackson Browne and Copyright
- Jackson Browne and CopyrightRE: Jackson Browne and CopyrightPosted to the wrong place. Moved here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11048-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52418&messageID=988050&start=-9996?SO!WHO CARES WHOM YOU VOTE FOR!!!!!I agree. it should be the length drugs are givenDrugs take far more money and time to produce than movies and music. On top of that, they may...
- Tags: Jackson Browne, Fair Use
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Is Facebook an open source hero or Microsoft clone?
- Neither. Facebook is a currently popular site with very personal information stuck in the crosshairs of dueling expectations. The Canadian Inquisition is, for all the heated rhetoric attached to it, not that big a deal. Canadian authorities want to use Facebook to set rules...
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Canadian Inquisition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Blogging, Channel Management, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- fbOpen: Facebook open-sources its Platform
- Facebook has gone ahead and open-sourced major parts of the Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers write applications for the site. "This release is just a first step in providing you a look into Facebook Platform, and we hope you'll help us iterate on and...
- Tags: Developer, Facebook, Open Source, Facebook Open Platform, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- OpenProj was 10th most-popular post here for 2007
- Today starts our wind-down of the year with a review of the top 10 posts of this blog, and number 10 was the launch of OpenProj. OpenProj was downloaded over 150,000 times in its first weeks online, and is a product of Projity, a SaaS company which had been...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, License, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Why SugarCRM made peace
- SugarCRM's summertime peace deal with OSI was motivated by marketing considerations.This became clear to me reading CEO John Roberts' hype concerning his latest release, Sugar 5.0. It's all about the Internet, about push vs. pull, about the glories of the open source business model.Not that there's anything wrong with that....
- Tags: OSI, Open Source, SugarCRM, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Does open source need a trademark?
- The logo to the right is a lie. Â The term "open source," by itself, is not the trademarked property of the Open Source Initiative or anyone else.So Centric CRM is ready to fight for its right to stay at the open source party. Who is to say they cannot? And...
- Tags: Strategy, management, Legal, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Is SugarCRM open source?
- David Berlind has a long interview, available as a podcast, with SugarCRM President John Roberts today. The key question -- is SugarCRM really open source?Roberts insists it is. The SugarCRM license merely combines elements from two existing open source licenses -- the Mozilla Public License and the Attribution Assurance License.Trouble...
- Tags: SugarCRM, badge, marketing, Database Management, Legal, Software Licensing, Applications, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Defining open source debate continues
- David interviews SugarCRM CEO John Roberts, focusing on the definition of open source. In the podcast, Roberts maintains his hybrid, commercial open source CRM solution can legitimately be called open source, and that his license is merely a merger of two existing open source licenses: the Mozilla Public License and...
- Tags: OSI, Legal, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Podcast: SugarCRM CEO says attribution in open source licenses is about fairness
- Meet John Roberts. Roberts is CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM. To many SugarCRM is thought of as a provider of open source-based customer relationship management solutions. But is it? Theres no question that SugarCRM provides a customer relationship management CRM solution. But is it an open source one? Roberts says...
- Tags: Meet John Roberts, SugarCRM, SPL, Open Source, IT Management, Legal, Podcasts, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first
- Attribution may matter in open source licensing, but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters firstKudos to SocialTextI will be amoung the people who disagree with Ross Mayfield on the specifics of the badgeware provision but he is ABSOLUTELY to be commended for getting it out in the open, and...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, OSI
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first
- Just before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I wrote about how a handful of vendors including customer relationship management solution provider SugarCRM were distributing software under licenses that they claimed to be open source licenses, but that dont appear on the Open Source Initiatives OSI official list of...
- Tags: Berlind, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General, Open Source Initiative
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Qlusters prepares to attack the systems management establishment
- Earlier this year Qlusters crossed the chasm from proprietary to open source software. The small company, backed by blue-chip VCs, took nearly three years of proprietary code development for its sophisticated systems management software and open sourced it under a modified attribution only Mozilla Public License. Now, armed with a...
- Tags: Qlusters, open source
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
- Zimbra leads a path to AJAXed apps
- You've heard all the talk about Web 2.0 and new Web-centric software platforms. Some of it is abstract or warped by marketing departments hoping to appear fashionable. Richard MacManus tries to round up the definitions and apps. But, the meaning of Web 2.0 is best expressed in products. A new...
- Tags: Zimbra
- Blog posts 2005-09-29
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