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Open source values: openness

Open source values: opennessOpen Source value = honestyA most refreshing treat in todays corrupt greedy corporate Government mandated society.Openness should and will win.We should hold openness as an important value. Particularly the openness of ideas and software is just an expression of ideas. If Microsoft could keep Linux...

Tags: openness, Open Source Values, open source

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Open source values: transparency

Open source values: transparencyI Vote for Honesty Over TransparencyThe operative word should be "honesty".How many times have you seen ads, e.g., that are transparently dishonest? Doesn't "Transparent" mean that one can see through outward behavior into true and sometimes hidden motivations?Journalists and politicians are often transparently dishonest as well, and...

Tags: transparency, Transparency, open source, Open Source Values

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Open source values and the Digg dispute

Open source values and the Digg disputeSignificance opf violating the law.This article weighs two values, following the law and the freedom permitted by the internet. Implicitly, law loses. Disobey the law in the expectation that you won't get caught, and in the belief that what you decide to...

Tags: open source, Open Source Values, Digg

Discussion threads 2007-05-04

Additional Resources

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...

Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Woven-media ColorSafe 1.0 Beta (Windows)

ColorSafe 1.0 Beta is an open-source stand-alone program which converts color values from hexadecimal to RGB triplets, and vice versa. You will be able to use ColorSafe to view the nearest web safe color according to the values you have specified. RGB triplets can be entered as floating point or...

Tags: Triplet, Beta, ColorSafe 1.0 Beta, Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-23

The best VoIP solution is ...

What about hosted?Wondering if you guys would be willing to discuss the most obvious omission... hosted. It's like choosing which car to buy when its cheaper to take a limo.RE: The best VoIP solution is ...Your article was only comprehensive if you consider just the IP-PBX and desktop telephone;...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Fax, Zultys, Voice Mail, VoIP Solution, AC power, SIP, VoIP

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?

Long ago......people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., publically-traded company, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Major security holes in popular XML libraries

A security research outfit has issued a warning for several critical vulnerabilities in popular XML libraries used by a wide range of software vendors. The flaws, discovered earlier this year by Codenomicon, affect a wide range of technology products, including servers and server applications, workstations and end...

Tags: Vulnerability, Server, XML, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-08-06

R6 Home Inventory 2.2 (Windows)

Property loss happens. It may come in the form of an accident, a natural disaster, or theft but the odds of it happening to you at some point are great. R6 Home Inventory is an easy to use database that allows you to catalog all of your physical assets by...

Tags: R6 Software, Property Loss, Policies And Procedures, Real Estate, Asset Management, Insurance, Microsoft Windows, Financial Planning, Human Resources, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Corporate Insurance, Operating Systems, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-13

DB Anywhere Database 3.1 (Mobile)

Want a compact, powerful, easy-to-use database software? You got one!DB AnywhereFeatures Load large tables very quicklyEasily create and view formsForms can contain Text, Combo or Check Boxes, Labels, Buttons, Images and List BoxesCreate shortcuts to your tables/queries/forms which make it possible to load DB Anywhere to a specific table query...

Tags: Mobile, Tiny Pocket Software, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-07-10

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20

Where does Obama stand on open source?

Where does Obama stand on open source?doesnt suprise mehes a socialist, of course he doesnt like anything free that he cannot control. Typical democrat bull.I suspect the President knows what open source isHe has long acquaintance of people with in-depth knowledge of the issue. What he may not understand is...

Tags: Biden, open source, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

BSA says piracy cost $50 billion, awaits its IP czar

BSA says piracy cost $50 billion, awaits its IP czarThere is no such thing as piracy...Piracy is what happens to ships on the high seas.Un-licensed software is NOT piracy! Useing the word "piracy" to denote un-licensed software is just a form of propaganda.With product activation, Draconian DRM and EULAs that...

Tags: Well Let, Business Software Alliance, piracy, IP Czar, Cyber Mafia, IP

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

WSO2 moves data services component to OSGI-based Carbon framework

Moving to expand its user base to more database folks, WSO2 is releasing the promised data services component to Carbon, the open source company’s new modular service-oriented architecture SOA framework based on the OSGi component model. WSO2 Data Services is “completely re-architected” for Carbon’s componentized approach to...

Tags: Data Service, Database Administrator, SOA, WSO2 Data Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Databases, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Open source brings the litigators against Apple

Open source brings the litigators against AppleYou need another "re-think".Nothing but smoke and mirrors.RE: Open source brings the litigators against AppleI'ma card carrying koolaid sipping Apple Zealot, and have been since 1991. In my eyes, Apple can do no wrong . . . . unless they actually do something wrong,...

Tags: Apple Inc., open source, litigator

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration

Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of CollaborationThe Real challenge is not in technology ...Ms. Warrior's predictions will almost likely come true. However, while technology can give us capabilities, human beings decide whether or not to actually use technology -- and history is littered with instances of great...

Tags: Groupware, Collaboration Technology, collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., network

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Foxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbook

Foxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbookFoxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbookLook on the bright side, if they use a Foxconn motherboard you won't be able to run linux on it. The purchase of one of these will depend on price. Remember that Apple is...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Inc., netbook, Apple Netbook, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Sun sells soul for 10 cents more

Sun sells soul for 10 cents moreThis is a best fit and should have happened long time ago...As explained by Dana Blankhorn in http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4014 (Why is Oracle picking up the Sun mess?), the following single reason is alone good enough to justify this acquisition"This is a defensive move. To quote...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Programming languages, Operating systems, UNIX, Middleware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun sells soul, IBM Corp., Sun Sells, Java

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to India

WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to Indiais this 'change we can believe in'?We thought Bush was ignorant about the job market, but Obama is downright anti American and in bed with the big and greedy corporations.RE: WSJ: More IBM layoffs in U.S.; jobs shifting to IndiaWow. Linux...

Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Good Business, IBM Corp., layoff, IBM layoff, job

Discussion threads 2009-03-25