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- What should open source do in a car?
- What should open source be doing in a car? What would you do that Sync isn't doing now? How should an open source community focused on automotive features be managed? And what features should be off-limits to the open source community? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Car, Open-source Community, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers?
- Can't we all just get along?[nt]He has no right to be upsetThis is code that is being released [b]for free[/b] to the Open Source community. It will be released on MS's timeline and not some arbitrary timeline specified by someone who is on record as hating MS. No other open...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, GPL v2, kernel, Microsoft Corp., open source, open-source community, GPL, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Intuit launches open source community
- What good is an open-source platform without a community of developers who can interact with each other and the company via a forum for sharing toolkits, tips, documentations and more? Intuit, the makers of popular Quicken and Quickbooks software, today announced the out-of-beta launch of code.intuit.com, an...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Open-source Community, Small Business, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Intuit creates open source community
- Earlier today, I had a conversation with Alex Chriss and Alex Barnett of Intuit as they discussed the creation of code.intuit.com Intuit's open source community. This is a smart move and one that I'd suggested would be a welcome addition to IPP when we last spoke. In...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Open-source Community, VerticalResponse, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Will ChromeOS make Google more loved or hated in open source world?
- Google's plans to launch an open source operating system is not only a potential game changer for Microsoft but also likely a big blow for Ubuntu and other Linux hopefuls on the desktop. But its success depends somewhat on support by the open source community. Google promises to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Open-source Community, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- What does open source community mean?
- What does open source community mean?Too much thought on companies.......not enough on individual efforts. I think some folk get too caught up in the business aspect of it all and forget the root. I use plenty of FOSS tools that are backed by no large corporate entity. They may sometimes...
- Tags: open source, F/OSS, developer, open-source community, joy
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- What does open source community mean?
- Those open source businesses which remain true to their community ideals through this recession are going to come out stronger for it. If the companies don't come out despite high ideals, then they will. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Ideal, Open-source Community, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Can Google build open source communities
- Can Google build open source communitiesMore contributions, as more devices are deliveredAs more companies start delivering Android devices to the market, there is likely to be a significant increase in contributions to Android outside of Google. These contributions would be changes that companies made, in the process of building their...
- Tags: open source, Google Inc., open-source community, OPhone, contribution
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- Can Google build open source communities
- Is Google really good at being part of an open source community? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Open-source Community, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?Different goals, maybe. Similar imperatives, yes.While the open source community is driven by solving mutual problems and then making the solutions available to everyone, if open source communities hope to make inroads into large organizations,...
- Tags: Desktops, Xen, VMware Inc., open-source community, open source, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Exploiting Social Software to Build Open Source Communities
- This paper describes work in progress on how to build open source communities. The proposed approach is based on exploiting existing social software communities and applications to attract users and developers to the software to be released. The approach is being evaluated in the context of the NoTA platform, which...
- Tags: Open-source Community, Social Software, Collaboration, Open Source
- White papers 2008-07-02
- Business family, open source community
- Business family, open source communityError on Line 7Error on line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
- Tags: open-source community, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Business family, open source community
- To truly make an open source project a community project, a business has to completely let go of it, and recognize that it may go in unexpected directions, directions which don't embrace the business' vision, which may in fact run counter to it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Goal, Open-source Community, Business Family, Matt Asay, Loyalties, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Whose mobile open source community will deliver?
- In all the talk of the various approaches to building mobile open source platforms one word has been left out. Community. One of the key lessons open source companies have learned over the last few years is that it's the quality of your development...
- Tags: Mobile, Forge, Open-source Community, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Do open source developers deserve a premium?
- Do open source developers deserve a premium?Just Ignorant or more MS-Sponsored Bull?Articles like these always the ignorance line so closely that I cannot really tell if they're genuine ignorance or influenced by parties with vested interest. However, Robert De-Niro gave the best advice for some of these ZDNet guys...
- Tags: Development tools, Closed-Source, open source, Open Source Developers, open-source community
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Microsoft implements no sue zone over open source
- Word of Microsoft's big announcement in about an hour is out. The news: Microsoft is pledging not to sue open source companies over products that connect to its software. Ina Fried reported the news, but color me skeptical. Is this a Microsoft peace offering that could actually...
- Tags: Open-source Community, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Analyst: Resist the temptation of well-integrated SOA suites
- Analyst: Resist the temptation of well-integrated SOA suitesSome like it suite, others don'tThere will continue to be a divide between companies that want a full SOA suite, and those looking for best-of-breed SOA components. The latter will have much more flexibility and cost savings, at the expense of the...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, OPEN SOURCE, open-source community, SOA, SOA Suite
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Oracle-BEA deal expands lock-in strategy, offers new risks and opportunities for Red Hat
- Oracle's $8.5 billion dollar buyout of BEA dramatically shifts the enterprise applications software market once again, as well as additional pressure and opportunities for Red Hat's JBoss Division -- and the whole open source apps community in general. The deal, if approved, expands Oracle's immense enterprise...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Open-source Community, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Commercial the dominant word in open source
- Commercial the dominant word in open sourceYes, MS is forced outside of their comfort zone!MS does NOT like that they can not force everybody over to higher end hardware to run Vista. MS is now forced to TRY to make XP run on low end hardware to deny Linux an...
- Tags: open-source community, Microsoft Corp., open source, man-hour, dominant Word
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
- Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
- Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committeeDoubtful[i]Microsoft's strong-arming of the ISO process regarding Open XML, the proprietary format of Microsoft Office, may be destroying its legitimacy.[/i]I don't see this doing any harm at all to Microsoft's legitimacy.Where's the downside?[i]Is making Microsoft's Open XML format a standard so important that Microsoft is...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Word processors, Microsoft Office, open-source community, Microsoft Corp., ISO, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
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