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- Forbes rewrites the history of open source
- Woods, for some reason, insists on calling open source "commercial open source," when the whole idea of open source was that it would be commercial. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Forbes, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Less to Raymond letter than meets the eye, or more?
- Eric Raymond left has switched his desktop from RedHat to Ubuntu.Is that a headline? Sounds more like a celebrity endorsement to me.And make no mistake, Eric Raymond is a celebrity. At least in the corner of the computing world called open source he is. People in this world recognize the...
- Tags: General, Linux, Software Licensing, Legal, Strategy, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, mass market
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Eric Raymond's boot to Red Hat's head
- Eric Raymond's boot to Red Hat's headHi John"Consumers want their stuff to work" When you get a chance please tell this to your employer;)OSS is not a "single view" on the contrary to proprietary.tss tss tss John, John, John ...I will not expect you to understand this but in OSS...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., OSS, Free Software Foundation, Eric Raymond, Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2007-02-22
- Eric Raymond's boot to Red Hat's head
- Many years ago, I was on the receiving end of Mr. Raymonds annoyance. Suffice to say, he is as brutally direct as a sledgehammer to the chest. That appears still to be the case, at least if his very public rejection of Red Hat is any indication. He sent his...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Open Source, PC Forum, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Raymond on open source
- If you talk to Eric Raymond or Richard Stallman, they make very specific that "open source" (which is Eric Raymond's bailiwick) is not "free software" (Stallman's domain). "Open source" is more pragmatic, concentrating on the benefits of the "open" development model over proprietary models. "Free software" types think there is...
- Tags: Eric Raymond, open source
- Blog posts 2005-06-17
- Amidst restructuring, Open Source Initiative founder Eric Raymond makes room for new regime
- Under a great deal of stress from all corners of the technology industry due to a structure and process that more closely resembles that of a club rather than an organization that can professionally lead and represent the interets of such a rapidly growing community, the Open Source Initiative has...
- Tags: open source, OSI
- Blog posts 2005-01-31
Additional Resources
- Seeking a Stallman for open source
- Stallman is for OSS what Washington was for USAWe need more people like Stallman to liberate us from the M$ tirany not Benedict Arnolds like Icaza!We need to speek louder about M$ dirty deeds not to seek peace with the devil.Stallman is a liberalJust thought LinuxGeek ought to know that....
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Stallman, open source, Icaza, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Does Oracle matter to open source
- only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...
- Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- 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
- Open source extremism lives
- Open source extremism livesNot the same thingI admit there's a continuum of opinion. Those who are advocating ogg aren't advocating defiance of the law, but a format more in keeping with the ideals of FOSS, which is a different thing.Userama decided to laugh at Democrats, but he made an apt...
- Tags: ZD Net, F/OSS, extremism, Open source extremism, extremist, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Curing what ails Microsoft
- Curing what ails MicrosoftYou are the firstNTDid anyone ever tell you that you look a littlelike Tucker Carlson on MSNBC fromerly CNN?Pagan jimWhat you describe......is inherent in any large organization look at the US Government, but your suggestions are good ones, nonetheless. Any plans to fight unnecessary code duplication...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Quality, Microsoft Corp., Amiga, Commodore, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...
- Tags: GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., CDDL, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Is open source anti-American?
- Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...
- Tags: anti-American, American Business, Is open source anti-American, open source, IS open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?
- Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens wants back on the board. Perens, who quit OSI in 1999 to concentrate on free software, has launched a petition drive to win his way back in. Perens says vendors are over-represented on the board, which is headed...
- Tags: OSI, Bruce Perens, Bruce, Michael Tiemann, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Is celebrity contradictory with open source?
- Daniel Terdiman's scathing review of journalist Sarah Lacy at the SXSW keynote of Mark Zuckerberg this weekend leads to this intriguing question. Are celebrity and open source contradictory? (Here's a clip.) It's true that open source has some well-known names. Eric Raymond. Linus Torvalds....
- Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Microsoft snaps up Danger Inc.
- Microsoft snaps up Danger Inc.Is this a testamentTo their inability to gain hardly any traction at all in the Mobile device environment, starting to use a java based solution?? (It's not the full implementation anyways, it has some proprietary add ons and misses some of the functionality). Furthermore does Danger...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows NT, Danger Inc., Microsoft Corp., SideKick
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Microsoft axes paid versions of Office Live Small Business
- Microsoft axes paid versions of Office Live Small BusinessIt's just not worth paying for. ntntgoing in the right directionNow simplify the features all the versions and let users/businesses turn on/off what features they need. Also, follow the Google Apps pricing model.do they do support?i heard u don't need an IT...
- Tags: Office Live Small Business, small business, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?
- Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?An open source star really could help to increase awarness of Linux, andfree software in general. Linux Torvalds does not want to be a star, and though not as abrasive as Richard, still abrasive. Eric Raymond is a great writer, but he does not...
- Tags: open source, Google Inc., Linux, Bill Gates, brand
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Commercial the dominant word in open source
- Commercial the dominant word in open sourceYes, MS is forced outside of their comfort zone!MS does NOT like that they can not force everybody over to higher end hardware to run Vista. MS is now forced to TRY to make XP run on low end hardware to deny Linux an...
- Tags: open-source community, Microsoft Corp., open source, man-hour, dominant Word
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
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