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The costs of free: The costs of freeSomr miscreant? How about some do-gooder?"some miscreant may come along and skew the market in ways your model doesn?t reflect."Like the way some "miscreants" destroyed the livelihoods of apothecaries by revealing to the public how to make simple home remedies themselves?Face it, if somebody can destroy your...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, mass market, F/OSS; Discussion threads 2009-07-07
iPhone - Cool goes mass market: At yesterday's WWDC keynote speech Apple made an announcement that significantly changes its iPhone business model - by cutting the price of the iPhone 3G 8GB model (not the newer iPhone 3GS) to $99, the iPhone has just become a mass market cellphone. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Tags: Apple iPhone, Mass Market, Strategy, Cellular Phones, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2009-06-09
Cyberchondria or did Microsoft miss market again?: Getting out the message that it's usually nothing would be a great start toward bringing the mass market of medical search online. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Mass Market, Microsoft Corp., Market, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-11-28
Has Ubuntu clinched the desktop Linux market?: On the surface a two-month delay in Red Hat's release of Global Desktop Linux is no big deal. (Picture of a Dell laptop running Ubuntu from Indiecom.)The aim of the project is not just to deliver an operating system, but a complete environment, including applications, aimed at the mass market.Some...; Tags: Strategy, mass market, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, Hardware, Distributions, General; Blog posts 2007-08-03
The Comdexification of Linux: Linuxworld hits San Francisco next week with 11,000 attendees. The media is filled with stories about the "mainstreaming" of open source.Maybe. I'm more worried about open source Comdexifying, about Comdexification if you will.If you're under 30 you may barely know what I'm talking about. But back in the last century...; Tags: mass market, marketing, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, General, Events, business models; Blog posts 2007-08-03

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
Should we take Wikia more seriously?: One of the big stories of the weekend was Wikia's purchase of the Grub spider from LookSmart and its release under an open source license.Media around the world went into hype -rdrive, repeating Jimmy Wales' comments at OSCON that Wikia would now take on Google and Yahoo.You see, Google and...; Tags: mass market, Internet, Google, General, Database Management, content; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Intel open source strategy starts to come together: With the release of its Thread Building Blocks template as open source, Intel's open source strategy is starting to come together.It's about the value of standards, and where in a productÂ ecosystem those standards live.TBB moves control of parallelism out of the operating system, out of Windows or Linux, and places...; Tags: business models, Development, General, Hardware, Implementations, management, mass market, mobile, Strategy, wireless; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Dear Zonbu, think server: Zonbu is billing itself as a cheap client, a PC replacement, the true $100 laptop.But what if you called it a server?Its $12.95/month service charge is designed to pay for online updates, including security updates and backup services. If you have a home network, two kids each with a PC,...; Tags: Database Management, business models, Applications, General, Hardware, Implementations, LANs and WANs, Linux, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, management, marketing, mass market, Network Administration, Software as a Service, Strategy, support, wireless; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Is Zonbu the next revolution?: ZonbuÂ right, a start-up from French entrepreneurs Gregoire Gentil Twingo and Alain Rossmann (EO, OpenWave), combines a cellphone business model with open source software to deliver a complete Linux-based PC forÂ as little as $99 and $12.95/month.The box is pre-loaded with a host of open source freeware -- Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice, Skype,...; Tags: Software as a Service, Linux Desktop OS, Hardware, General, Strategy, Linux, business models, mass market; Blog posts 2007-07-24
Does Everex benefit open source market?: Everex has released a $298 back to school desktop system built around Open Office and Windows Vista.While the company's press release emphasizes energy efficiency and productivity, the big news here is it's being sold at Wal-Mart.The marketing screams open source, but the PC itself runs Windows Vista, replacing only Microsoft...; Tags: Strategy, Not Linux, Microsoft, mass market, marketing, Hardware, General, education, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-20
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
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 ReachÂ in Ottawa, Canada."All businesses really care is can I get something thatâ€™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
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 notÂ 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
What is the true value of open source?: There are many ways to measure the value of open source. But no one measure gives the true picture.(A print of this hangs in my living room. Its presence here will be explained.)Savio Rodrigues recently measured it through venture capital returns. But with open source squeezing costs out of software,...; Tags: business models, Events, General, Infrastructure, management, mass market, Strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-10
The open source way to truth: The big fight yesterday between Michael Moore and Wolf Blitzer may have a message for tech.It involves the limit of spin and the responsibility of journalists.Tech journalists are uniquely susceptible to spin. Because our sources are also our advertisers, publishers have to strike a balance to survive in the market.Others...; Tags: business models, content, General, Internet, marketing, mass market, politics, Strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-10
Open source security arrives with Untangle: A few months after launching this blog I asked why there was no open source security.Now there is. UntangleÂ has released its network gateway under GPVv2. CEO and blogger Â Bob Walters compares his product to SONICwall and Watchguard, saying "weâ€™ll sell services and premium products on top of it."Load the software...; Tags: Security, resellers, mass market, GPL, General, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-05
Is Microsoft OOXML the best deal open source can get?: The Microsoft Office formats are in the news again. (Picture from Stephesblog, copyright Hugh MacLeod.)Massachusetts has backed-down and accepted the Microsoft Office OOXML format as a standardÂ while the companies in Microsoft's open source orbit promise they will work together on conversion routines between OOXML and Open Office's ODF.Many in the...; Tags: Strategy, Standards, Microsoft, mass market, marketing, Legal, Government, General, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-03
Most Presidential candidates use open source: Douglas Karr at the Marketing Technology Blog decided to survey the Web sites of Presidential candidates, finding out what software they were running and where they were hosted.(Why is this fellow here? All will be revealed soon, grasshopper.)Karr's methodology was not rocket science. He used Netcraft. You can do it,...; Tags: politics, Microsoft, mass market, management, Linux Server OS, Linux, Internet, Implementations, Government, General; Blog posts 2007-06-27
BBC takes political hits for rejecting open source: The BBC wants to put its shows on the Web, and made a deal with Microsoft for the technology required to do that. (That'sÂ the Tardis, from Dr. Who, one of many fine BBC programs.)This has the BBC in political hot water. Boingboing says it's a DRM issue, but the country'sÂ Open...; Tags: video, Microsoft, mass market, Legal, Internet, Implementations, Government, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications; Blog posts 2007-06-27