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- Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefield
- Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefieldAnd Now for Something Completely Similar...http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2350.htmlCould you make a map for open source companiesLike Red Hat, Sun, IBM, etc.?You could...But no Open Source company has made litigation threats that other Open Source projects are violating their intellectual property. Microsoft has.Keyword...OPENBeing...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source, patent, Centrify
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- The great man isn't any more
- The great man isn't any moreYou have noticed...... that Microsoft is attempting to buy Yahoo!, and not the reverse. Somehow the company Mr. Ballmer leads so enthusiastically is more successful than the company once led by two enablers.And you have also noticed, I expect, that Google continues to profit...
- Tags: Leadership, Contribution, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, leader, great man, Google Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- SAP picks up YASU Technologies
- SAP seems to be getting this acquisition thing down. The ERP giant said Wednesday that it is buying YASU Technologies, which makes rules management systems. SAP said it will embed YASU's technology into SAP NetWeaver to add business rules to its software architecture. The general idea behind...
- Tags: Business Process, SAP AG, Server, Eclipse, Contribution, Operational Planning, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for now
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for nowStopping innovation?You can anything you like with open source, as long as we approve...RE: OpenOffice won't fork -- for nowThe surprising thing to me is that it's so surprising to some that there is an argument going on in public. Some folks get needless hysterical...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Contribution, Sun Contributor Agreement, agreement
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- IBM's Linux contributions
- IBM's Linux contributionsRE: IBM's Linux contributionsHonestly Murph.To find something you actually have to look for it,and if you look at the marketing bull sites, youfind marketing bull. Just try to look at these 3places, mentioned below.http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux with things like PAVE which lets you run x86 Linux ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, IBM Corp., contribution, IBM Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Are we all just spare cycles?
- Chris Anderson of The Long Tail suggested recently that much of the work on open source is done through "spare cycles," and that such excess capacity is a major driver for progress. (Picture from Ken Conley.)Scott Gilbertson of Wired immediately took umbrage, citing a study showing 65% of contributions to...
- Tags: Development, General, management, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- NuConomy preps social Web analytics and incentive platform
- In the age of AJAX, user-generated content and the data mining of Web attention data as the currency of the realm, there is a thirst for a generalized platform that measures more than page views and a few other basic metrics. NuConomy, a five-person Israeli startup based in Tel Aviv,...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Social networking, SaaS, General, Business Intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- Is SugarCRM open source?
- Is SugarCRM open source?SugarCRM is not open sourceWant prove? simple follow this link where John Roberts goes off on the guys from vtiger crm earlier this year for using code from SugarCRMhttp://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=7&highlight=sugarcrmQuote from John:vtiger is a lie - the legal product is called SugarSales from SugarCRM Inc.We do not think...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, open source, SugarCRM, CRM, contribution
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Bradley Kuhn rips Microsoft's patent pledge to shreds. But should we be surprised?
- Yesterday, in reponse to Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Non-Compensated Developers which was an integral part of last weeks pact between the software giant and Novell, Software Freedom Law Center CTO Bradley Kuhn issued a tersely worded warning to the Free and Open Source Software FOSS community that the pledge is...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, F/OSS, openSUSE.org
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Could Adobe's contribution to Mozilla force MS to take Internet Explorer open source?
- News.coms Martin Lamonica has the details on "the largest code contribution yet to the open source Mozilla Foundation:" On Tuesday, Adobe is expected to announce the donation in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The code will form the basis for a new open-source project called...
- Tags: Web browsers, Adobe Systems Inc., open source
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- MySQL becomes more contribution friendly
- Stephen OGrady chats with MySQL CEO Marten Mickos left about his companys new MySQL Community and MySQL Enterprise offerings. In the comments, the code contribution comes up. MySQL has been nearly 100 percent in-house code, but now seems to be opening up for more contributions and innovations with the Community...
- Tags: contribution, MySQL
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- The Open Source Incline
- This is the second chapter in my five-part FOSS series. The first chapter was posted yesterday, and can be found here. One concept I write about a lot here is what I call the Open Source Incline. It's roughly a right triangle, on a graph. Along one axis is the...
- Tags: open source, GPL, incline
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- Web 2.0 pay for play: payola, or transparency?
- We live in a world propelled by “spin” and driven by opaque, financially motivated relationship webs.From corporations motivated by profits, to not-for-profits with missions to “do good,” and from governments serving citizens, to universities at the service of research, activities occuring at organizations of all types, including Web 2.0 Social...
- Tags: hospital
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- Seaweed: Distributed Scalable Ad Hoc Querying
- Many emerging applications such as wide-area network management need to query large, structured, highly distributed datasets. Seaweed is a distributed scalable infrastructure for querying such datasets. This paper describes its architecture and design features, using the Anemone network management system as a motivating example. The main contribution is a design...
- Tags: Advertisement, Network, Seaweed, Contribution, WANs, Networking, Network Technology, Network Administration
- White papers 2006-05-23
- Incentivizing users to generate content
- YourMTB.com, a mountain biking enthusiast site recently launched by Enthusiast Group, a citizen media venture, is hoping to jump-start enthusiast contributions through incentives:Post your photo—we’ll give $5 to IMBA. Do something good for mountain biking. Share a picture of yourself. We're beginning to build a community of mountain bikers…What better...
- Tags: contribution, user contribution
- Blog posts 2006-05-16
- Provably Secure Ubiquitous Systems: Universally Composable RFID Authentication Protocols
- This paper examines two unlinkably anonymous, simple RFID identification protocols that require only the ability to evaluate hash functions and generate random values, and that are provably secure against Byzantine adversaries. The main contribution is a universally composable security model tuned for RFID applications. By making specific setup, communication, and...
- Tags: Florida State University, Contribution, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-04-29
- Defining Strong Privacy for RFID
- This paper considers privacy in Radio Frequency IDentification RFID systems. The contribution is threefold: the paper proposes a simple, formal definition of strong privacy useful for basic analysis of RFID systems, as well as a different weaker definition applicable to multi-verifier systems; applies the definition to reveal vulnerabilities in several...
- Tags: Privacy, Contribution, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-04-07
- Typed Parametric Polymorphism for Aspects
- This paper studies the incorporation of generic types in aspect languages. Since advice acts like method update, such a study has to accommodate the subtleties of the interaction of classes, polymorphism and aspects. Indeed, simple examples demonstrate that current aspect compiling techniques do not avoid runtime type errors. The paper...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Aspect, Semantics, Alcatel, Contribution, C#, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Productivity, .Net, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-02-23
- Nessus security tool closes its source
- Nessus security tool closes its sourceExcellent software!If you're an auditor or lan security admin this program is a must have item.M$ paid them off!I'm sure M$ or $CO paid them to make GPL look bad.I hope they go out of business soon.Nessus security tool closes its source[i]The developer also expressed...
- Tags: tool, OpenSource, Closed-Source, Nessus, GPL, contribution, Nessus security tool, open source, security tool
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- Haskell on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor
- Multi-core processors are coming, and it requires ways to program them. The combination of purely-functional programming and explicit, monadic threads, communicating using transactional memory, looks like a particularly promising way to do so. This paper describes a full-scale implementation of shared-memory parallel Haskell, based on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. The...
- Tags: Performance, Association For Computing Machinery, Contribution, Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2005-09-30
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