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Signing e-mail to legally bind e-mail attachments: Easier said than done: Here on ZDNet, in the blogs, their comment areas, and in e-mails you have not seen, my fellow blogger George Ou and I have been debating the challenges to securing e-mail.Although many Internet users assume it to be otherwise, most e-mail traversing the Internet and even corporate networks is insecure....; Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Security, Legal, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Will Microsoft fit into OSI compromise?: The last time I wrote about the OSI it was to praise the "peace deal" it made on the licensing front.The question today is, can Microsoft fit inside that deal?At the same OSCON conference where OSI approved its first "attribution" license, Microsoft "good cop" Bill Hilf left said last week...; Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, Red Hat, Microsoft, Legal, General, Events; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Will video get a serious open source business model?: The media is going ga-ga over news Google will roll-out video fingerprinting technology in September to stop the posting of copyrighted material on YouTube.Much of the coverage has a nyaah-nyaah-nyaah quality to it. Soon, no more Colbert sneers Salon.Not exactly. Search under Stephen Colbert on Google Video and you'll still...; Tags: video, marketing, mass market, Internet, Legal, Google, Development, content, business models; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Why don't Linux distros make legal codecs easier to find?: A few weeks ago I took a look at how Ubuntu 7.04 handled proprietary file formats such as MP3, WMA and QuickTime movies. Overall the support was good (although I couldn't get QuickTime 7 movie support working) but it seriously bothered me that I had to resort to downloading and...; Tags: My Linux Experience, Linux, Legal; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Monkcast #10: One day, they'll grow fruit with bar codes on the skin & Yeah! Socialtext: In this week's Monkcast, our 10th joint production between the research outfit Redmonk and ZDNet, we ponder worldly topics such as the idea of cows making skim milk. Apparently, this is already being done somewhere (eeek!) and we can only wonder when, if ever, fruit and veggies will be grown...; Tags: Open Source, MonkCast Podcast, Legal, General, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts; Blog posts 2007-07-27

OSI avoids open source war: Let us now praise Michael Tiemann. (Right, by Joi Ito.)When I wrote about open source CRM recently, I had no idea I was opening a Pandora's Box of controversy, which Tiemann proceeded to open on his blog.For a while I was afraid we were about to have a war over...; Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, Red Hat, management, Legal, General; Blog posts 2007-07-27
When it comes to secure e-mail, beware of George Ou's reality distortion field: Yesterday, I posted a blog about how secure e-mail simply doesn't exist. It was an extension of another discussion regarding password recovery schemes that result in the transmission of your password back to you in clear text over insecure networks.In a post headlined E-Mail security has been around forever, you...; Tags: Web technology, Security, Personal Technology, Legal, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?: Last week, when I interviewed Sun's Peder Ulander (there's text, video, and audio -- take your pick) about the idea of redshift computing (a Sun theory that all the world's servers will eventually give way to just five or so massively scalable systems), he talked about how Sun's formula for...; Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Legal, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Sugar sweet for GPLv3: The big news today is that SugarCRM has bowed to community pressure and will release the next version of its CRM software under an OSI-approved license.The bigger news may be the identity of the license, GPLv3.Currently Sugar uses a version of the Mozilla Public License, adding a non-standard "attribution" requirement...; Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications, GPL; Blog posts 2007-07-26
WGA notches win for Microsoft in piracy bust: Microsoft's anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that the FBI and Chinese Public Security Bureau busted a syndicate selling and distributing more than $2 billion in counterfeit Microsoft software. The WGA's role...; Tags: Legal, General, Microsoft, Vista; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriously: Optaros has launched its Enterprise Open Source Directory.It is a very good thing, better than a plate of Martha Stewart bran muffins. That is partly because it has listing criteria, including only those projects which are truly enterprise class.But in doing this it also includes projects like SugarCRM whose open...; Tags: support, Standards, Software Licensing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, content, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Microsoft establishes more anti-GPLv3 precautions: Microsoft is running as fast as it can to patch up its patent agreements with Linux vendors to thwart any possible impact from the GPLv3.On the heels of repudiating any Novell Linux products covered by the GPLv3, Microsoft is taking a similar tack with Linspire, another of the Linux distribution...; Tags: Novell, Linux, Legal; Blog posts 2007-07-18
DRM and open source are the great divide: If there is any word other than Microsoft which can get an argument going among open source advocates, it is DRM. (The t-shirt is available here.)DRM, Digital Rights Management, is generally found in the form of an encryption wrapper giving control of the content to a rights holder. DRM is...; Tags: mass market, Legal, Hardware, GPL, General, FOSS, content, business models, Applications, Apple; Blog posts 2007-07-16
Does open source make business decisions political?: Of all the relationships changed by open source, perhaps the most nagging is that between business and politics.There's another taste of that in today's news, word the BBC is looking to make an open source version of its iPlayer.The BBC had made a business decision to work with Microsoft in...; Tags: politics, Microsoft, Legal, Government, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-16
VARs still have Long Reach in small business market: In the real world of small business, costs matter more than license terms.These are Michael Whitehead's customers at The Long Reach in Ottawa, Canada."All businesses really care is can I get something that's cost effective, which does the job, which is priced to suit my business, and do I have someone...; Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, mass market, marketing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Database Management, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-13
Another IBM patent dump: IBM has made another patent dump, this time granting universal access to over 150 patents meant to assure that software can interoperate.I'm certain people will complain IBM is only doing this for its own corporate advantage. The patents were previously available without royalties, but now IBM is promising not to...; Tags: Development, General, IBM, Legal, Patents, Strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-12
The open source purpose of new spectrum: What is the purpose of frequency regulation?Is it to maximize returns for investors or to serve the public interest?Open source does not deliver as much software profit as the proprietary model, but it does deliver enormous value to customers. Thus the free market likes open source. If the purpose of "competition"...; Tags: business models, General, Google, Government, Hardware, Legal, mass market, mobile, politics, telecom, VOIP, wireless; Blog posts 2007-07-12
Are you sure you're the only one with access to that password you 'recovered'? Think again.: A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the CEO of a company whose Web service I've been playing around with under non disclosure. She noted that my test account had been inactive for a decent stretch of time and was wondering what was up. "I've been real...; Tags: General, Government, IT Management, Legal, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web technology; Blog posts 2007-07-11
Linus vs. the GPLv3: Linus Torvalds is like my mama.As in, when mama ain't happy, ain't no one happy. (Picture from Wikimedia Commons.)Right now, Linus ain't happy, not at all. Especially about GPLv3. He considers the anti-Tivoization provisions in the new license, which keep you from crippling hardware containing software using the license, to...; Tags: Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, Legal, GPL, General; Blog posts 2007-07-10
FCC fights the open source concept: With today's release of new rules for Software Defined Radios, it should be clear that the FCC under chairman Kevin Martin right is dedicated to proprietary models, and a determined foe of open source.The final FCC language shows disdain for the open source concept, fearing that anything which can be...; Tags: General, Government, Hardware, Infrastructure, Legal, politics, telecom, wireless; Blog posts 2007-07-06