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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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- 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
- PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux
- PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to LinuxCall me a bit cynicalThe advantages of building a framework so that open source products could run in the Windows Platform are many, but the fact remains that like communism was to capitalism, the underlying business model is contradicting. Even today, we have many...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, NTFS-3G, Linux, NTFS, PenguinPolitik, Steve Ballmer, NTFS specification
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?
- Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?M$ cathedral is a blasphemyThe crooks at M$ are by no means a cathedral...They can't even qualify for the bazaar!To some many perception is their realityWe've expounded upon this before.Thinking folks will see this for what it is. You...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OSS, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Your best work for a chance at cash and prizes
- The headline above is incredibly snarky. I apologize for it. But there's a serious point to be made concerning Simon Phipps' announcement of a multi-year program of cash and prizes aimed at spurring open source development around Sun-run projects. That point being your motivation....
- Tags: India, Phipps, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Google's open access challenge
- You can have the money if you break the monopoly. That's the summary of Google's proposal for 700MHz, as laid out in a letter from CEO Eric Schmidt to the FCC. Google will bid up to $4.6 billion for spectrum if it gets open access rules on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Stallman's dream and GPLv3
- Stallman's dream and GPLv3You begin with a false premis"If you don't share his views, and work in the propriety software industry, then this might be a very scary thing."I don't believe anyone is "scared" by Stallman, his views, or open source. No more than they scared by the whacko...
- Tags: Linux, Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Wind River VxWorks, GPLv3, Free Software Foundation, Stallman, software
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Misusing open source in a good cause
- Misusing open source in a good causeI missed it.I thought he was simply comparing the way open source currently shares code and ideas, once mainly the property of companies and research facilitiesusually funded by companies or the government, to an era where the sharing of genetic code and ideas will...
- Tags: Dyson, Open Source Developers, Freeman Dyson, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-01
- Vispa (zip)
- 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, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-06-20
- GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software
- GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other softwareGentlemen, start your engines.I appreciated this part of the discussion:In his “Comments on GPLv3” essay, open source attorney Lawrence Rosen writes that he believes this clause can even be used to combine GPL licensed code “modules” with code from other licenses...
- Tags: software, GPLv3, proprietary code
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- Yahoo vs. Google on Memorial Day: No contest
- I run regular holiday competitions pitting the logo artistry of Yahoo designers against those of Google:Valentine's Day, Google vs. Yahoo Valentine's Day competitionEarth Day, Google vs. Yahoo: Earth DayThanksgiving, Google or Yahoo: You decide!What about today, Memorial Day? There are no commemorative logos at either Yahoo.com or Google.com. President George Bush:Prayer for Peace,...
- Tags: Culture, Google, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1
- The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1SOA vs Web.2.0Today results that Web 2.0 is everything. I just read a couple of days ago Dave Pode from the NY Times another definition. Web 2.0 is for him, the customer. When I was going to college, I took...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Channel management, advertisement, Web 2.0, SOA, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Japanese schools may convert aging computers to Linux
- Japanese schools may convert aging computers to LinuxIn Venezuela, are violators of a Presidential decree...... liable for arrest and fines or imprisonment? That's the single most compelling argument in favor of Linux use that I've encountered. Shows that persuasion would be expected to fail.Linux: it's better than...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, computer, Linux, government, Microsoft Corp., Chavez
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- That Linux thing - where's the vision?
- I get asked, fairly often, why Im down on Linux. Im not - Im like a guy with three kids: love all of them, but find myself spending more time with one than the other two - hey, I even have the guilt that goes...
- Tags: Linux, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowded
- Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowdedI agreeSaying "Microsoft is dead" is like saying "the Earth is square".Chanting that all day doesn't make it so.Microsoft may not currently have the momentum and power that they once enjoyed. That doesn't mean they are down for the count.The MS challengeappears to be where...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Narratives, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-04-10
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