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OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?

OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?Only freedom is the real loserWhile corporations whose goals are to exploit the public (using well-placed lobbying and bribes) will be winners.The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.C'est La VieCDF? But, but, butno one needs two standards, right? :-)congratulations to Mary....for...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Idealism, benefit, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, CDF

Discussion threads 2007-11-14

Facebook 'activism': how about a greater good?

Is student "engagement" always a good thing?In the old very old days, student activism meant something, stood for something and required some effort and personal risk taking. In the 1960’s, students took to the streets and literally put their lives on the line in the hopes of spurring a more...

Tags: Facebook

Blog posts 2006-09-09

From Rocketboom to UnBoomed: Web 2.0 partnership fizzles out

In “Notes from the tech conference underground,” Dan Farber reflects on a greater significance that can be gleaned from a 13 tech conference Spring swing:The extended spring tech conference season is beginning to wind down. I have done my share of time watching panels, keynotes and pitches, and hanging out...

Tags: idealism, Rocketboom

Blog posts 2006-07-05

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On the future of Open Source thought leadership

It's time we recognized the advantages of bothIMHO it's time to recognize the advantages in both, and not to do silly things like pretend that somehow software is a moral agent.I can certainly see the advantage of software being open source. It helps the educational community, and gives tools to...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Free Software, leadership, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, open source, proprietary software, Microsoft Corp., hardware, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?

Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Vispa 0.5.4 (Windows)

There are many reasons why you wouldn't want your operating system connect to Microsoft's server, be it for practical reasons or pure idealism. Based on the source-code of the award-winning xpy (version 0.9.8), Vispa allows you to easily tweak your Windows Vista towards better privacy and security, even system performance....

Tags: Operating System, Reason, Jan T. Sott, Vispa 0.5.4, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-03

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for Microsoft

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for MicrosoftWhat happens?How will it work if the internet is down, or you do not have connectivety for some reason?How is it fair for this OS to have the browser embedded so deeply in it, but Google argues against Microsoft doing that to the...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Google Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Twitter Trust #Fails

There's a big difference between a 'Trust Fall' and a 'Trust #Fail' to use the increasingly tiresome valleygirl slang #word Twitter users assign to stuff that doesn't meet their high standards. A 'Trust Fall' is a trust-building exercise often conducted in turns in...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Metal Sludge, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Open source and the shrinking waterhole

Open source and the shrinking waterholeOpen source is the futurentMoment of truthMany open source companies have been kept afloat by selling "support" which was in reality donations in disguise from sympathetic supporters of the open source ideology.Those sympathizers now face much more difficult questions when they try to artificially make...

Tags: open source, OpenSource

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

The Open Cloud Manifesto

The Open Cloud Manifesto, backed by its thirty-six firms that signed on with its debut, outlines core value propositions, points out challenges, sets goals, and then lists several principles of what an open cloud should accomplish. Until now, there has been no real attempt to define or restrict the term...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Open Cloud Manifesto, Cloud Market, Quality, Strategy, Channel Management, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Interview with 'Us Now' collaboration film director

I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film 'Us Now', a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet last week at the Barbican Arts...

Tags: Film, Ivo Gormley, Government, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-04

John Galt is dead or Linus shrugs

John Galt is dead or Linus shrugsLinux isn't a good example.It's expense reduction vs Unix for servers, funded by lower staffing costs.A better example is a product like OpenOffice.org, proprietary software given to a project as a desperation play because the former owner4 couldn't make a profit. And hopes...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Dana, Whole Community, John Galt, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Linus

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

CMIS: Boom Or Bust?

Some of you may have heard about the joint announcement from EMC, IBM, and Microsoft about the creation of Content Management Interoperability Services CMIS. The purpose of this proposed new standard? To create a vendor-agnostic way of accessing the data in content management systems from multiple vendors. In other words:...

Tags: Content Management, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Stephen Powers

Blog posts 2008-10-21

CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-overMy perception of CEOsMy perception of CEOs:1. Company makes a profit, CEO gets a pay raise and a bonus.2. Company loses money, CEO fires people and still gets a pay raise and a bonus.3. Company files for bankruptcy, CEO gets a severance package for...

Tags: do-over, meltdown, bank, Marxism, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

It's still good to be green, whether it's accidental or not

One of the IT services companies that closely partners with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, released an interesting survey earlier this week that confirms what I've believed for some time: IT managers don't really care about being green in the environmental sense as much as they care about saving money....

Tags: IT Manager, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-28

Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?

Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?I only had a quick look at the spreadsheet so I may be wrong. However it looks like this is bug counting exercise with a bit of 'how long were we exposed?' thrown in....

Tags: Patches, patch-counting nonsense, security metric, Mozilla Corp., nonsense, security

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

RIP OLPC

Here are two priceless bits from a long comment on problems within the one laptop per child community published on his personal blog by Ivan Krstic - he works for Sun now, I think, but was the long term go to guy on the programming...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Mako Hill, Sugar, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Is Stallman right about OLPC?

Is Stallman right about OLPC?Another open source ........ disciple weighs in. Thank you for making the point!Once again ....... Stallman and you missed the point about the OLPC. It was never about your Open source religion. It was about helping out kids in third world countries. ...

Tags: Stallman, open source, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

What is a sustainable business anyway?

Once you penetrate some of the sustainability hype the key question at board level is this: what action are you actually prepared to take? For a problem like climate change, where there is no regulatory hurdle and action is voluntary though enlightened by self interest, what action is enough? ...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, General Motors Corp., James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-04-10