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Open source becomes irresistible political force

Open source becomes irresistible political force"has resistance to open source really become futile?"Ask Microsoft that same question!I will say that I'm all in favour of cloud services, and less data being held locally as this makes it much harder for miscreants to abuse technology.As with the banking industry, we'll see...

Tags: open source, Microsoft Corp., FOSS mentality

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

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Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

Who cares?'m tired of this struggle for capitalism, I'm off to Galt's Gulch.Wah, wah, wah!Americans like Franklin, Westinghouse, Whitny, Kilby, didn't need fake "incentives"!Massengill Satchel"I don?t want to come across as a crying venture capitalist " but..............Sickening. Self-centered VC story. Complaining about access to talent, h1b's etc. No mention of...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Regulations, innovation, H1B, government

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Microhoo lessons for open source

Microhoo lessons for open sourceThe truth is UGLY!... and it hurts!Sob, sniffle, wimper, wimper ....LOL....I think you summed it all up when you mentioned..."corporate open source backers"IMO thats NOT open source. Those are the companies striving to make money from the concept. Now you'll have all the NBM'er Microbrains running...

Tags: F/OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Codeplex the measure of Microsoft open source street cred

Codeplex the measure of Microsoft open source street credBeing as user oriented as they areMicrosoft performed a user satisfaction survey on the quality of air. Why they even asked we don't know.The results came out, and a whopping 87% of respondents said that they would much rather have "Microsoft Air".Microsoft...

Tags: CodePlex, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft open source street, Microsoft Open Source

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Will Microsoft promise split the open source movement

Will Microsoft promise split the open source movementCan't change the spots on a Leopard's back.Besides, I just checked my NYS Driver's License for my date of birth--I wasn't born yesterday.So Linux Folks, don't touch Mono with a barge pole!Sorry Miguel, you are a creative spirit, but you've made your bed.Sleep...

Tags: .NET, Development tools, open source, Mono, Miguel, ECMA, open source movement, KDE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

No Apple-like attack ads for Microsoft's big-bucks Bing campaign

No Apple-like attack ads for Microsoft's big-bucks Bing campaignIt's probably because Google......haven't been lying their asses of in commercials like Apple have.Where is the Linux campaign?I know I'm going to get accused of being off topic but I believe [b]this[/b] is what is wrong with Linux. Technically, Linux is fantastic....

Tags: UNIX, SEARCH, Bing, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Google Inc., attack ad, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch

The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch"I learn from criticism"There certainly is no shortage of that around here. I visit here often but it's not out of loyalty, more like a junkie getting his fix. I would really like to kick the habit and move on to looking and...

Tags: Government, Tools & Techniques, Games, OPEN SOURCE, Planetside, Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust?

Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust?It's probably inevitableAs Google continues to grow, it will increasingly step on competitors' toes, and more and more of them will start complaining to antitrust regulators. See below:http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/b2b-search-engine-accuses-google-of-anticompetitive-prices.arsI think it's good to be proactiveIt seems to me that is all she...

Tags: Corporate law, Google Inc., antitrust, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobs

Microsoft to cut 5,000 jobsthe end is comming for M$Linux and OSS are winning the battle with the evil.It's time to dump M$ stock and software and invest in OSS software and companies.Change is comming to America and the world, fueled by the grass roots of the FOSS.RE: Microsoft to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, stock, job

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Should open source boycott Cisco's contest?

Should open source boycott Cisco's contest?Its open source!If it is open source code, why shouldn't a company try to use it and integrate it into their solutions? A contest like this is perfect for a company to be paid for their open source applications and try to get their...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., open source, boycott

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Open source in a time of recession

Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...

Tags: Rewriting History, recession, open source, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Forbes rewrites the history of open source

Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...

Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Microsoft appeals $1.4 billion EU fine

Microsoft appeals $1.4 billion EU fineExtortion?IIUC the fine is for 'abusing a monopoly position'. All MS have to do is stop the abuse. Simple. If they carry on, or they argue that the abuse is justified, then they will keep getting fined. That will hurt themselves, their customers and their...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts

Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research effortsJoint effort to monopolize the next 20 years...It's about time...Somebody put money into CS research, especially parallel stuff. Maybe this money will spur others to do likewise. Maybe CS departments will now be able to "rise from the ashes" of the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, multi-core, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., new Parallel, F/OSS, parallel, team

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Re: "7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop"

Re: "7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop"Some of my reasons:a. The culture of rejecting proprietary desktop apps/ The fact that not a lot get made anyway for Linux - OpenOffice.org/GIMP are really starting to lag behind Office/Photoshop in terms of features and intuitiveness. b. It's hard to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Debian

Discussion threads 2007-09-24

Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?

Could more Eolas-like open source benefactors hurt Microsoft, others?OIN and other patent poolsOpen Source has Patents also. There are already several pools of patents pledged to Open Source and Linux. OIN aquired some more patents about a week or so ago http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release.php . OIN is just...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Open Source Movement, Eolas Technologies Inc., Red Hat Inc., patent, software, open source, software patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp., GPL, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-30