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- Will European rules impact open source business models?
- Will European rules impact open source business models?Download is not the issue - its the tender processIt makes no sense to have a policy that accepts software that is 100% proprietary or 100% open source and nothing in between.Any commercial open source vendor can get around the download issue by...
- Tags: Roberto, Alfresco, open source, Funambol, Pentaho
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- The French way to open source
- What government can best provide to open source is education, encouragement and incentive. True broadband into every classroom, the best possible programmer training, a few contracts, a competitive market, and an attaboy are all I'd recommend. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Roberto, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- FAQ: A concentrated power boost for solar energy
- FAQ: A concentrated power boost for solar energyLove the ideaI'm developing property in the south of Spain, and I'm waiting for the day when I can incorporate these techniques in a cost effective way in my projects.It would make my properties far more attractive than other vendors, and I see...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Roberto, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
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- What does Europe have against GPLv3?
- My recent story on EUPL, the European Union Public License, drew some interesting reaction and this follow up question. What does Europe have against GPLv3? Roberto Galoppini, who first drew my attention to the issue, drew a response to his post from Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz...
- Tags: GPLv3, EUPL, Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Galoppini, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Europe gets its own GPL
- Europe now has its own version of the GPL. It's got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept. The European Union Public License is an effort by EU government services to codify a Euro-centric view of copyleft,...
- Tags: GPL, OSI, License, European Union Public License, EUPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- (Photos: From London to Timbuktu--in a flying car)
- (Photos: From London to Timbuktu--in a flying car)this is white people always end up in the news missing or dead.this is why they take stupid unnecessary risk and then we have to spend resourses to find them when the missing and put other in harms ways to rescue this idiots...
- Tags: Charles Lindbergh, Thor Heyerdahl, Christopher Columbus, car, Timbuktu, unnecessary risk, risk, photograph, propeller
- Discussion threads 2009-01-14
- 'Semantic Web for Business' ultimately misses the mark
- Weighing in at 416 text-packed pages, Semantic Web for Business could have been the latest attempt to bridge the divide between the university hotbeds of Semantic Web research and a business community ripe for persuading of semantic technologies' multifarious benefits. In that, though, the volume proves ultimately unsatisfying and a...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Opera sings the security blues
- Guest editorial by Aviv Raff If you ask any Opera fanboy, he will tell you that Opera is the most secured browser. Well frankly, it really is a good and secure browser, implementing many restrictions that other browsers simply ignore. For example, while...
- Tags: Internet, Opera Software ASA, Resource, Ryan Naraine, Security, Vulnerability, Web Browser, Web Browsers
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- On Opera patch day, a new zero-day flaw
- On the same day Opera shipped a browser update with patches for three separate security vulnerabilities, hackers are openly discussion a new zero-day flaw that exposes Windows users to remote code execution attacks. With Opera 9.61, the Norwegian browser maker corrects an issue where History Search could...
- Tags: Execution Attack, Internet, Opera Software ASA, Ryan Naraine, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Zero-day Bug
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Conversation with HP's Roberto Moctezuma
- I recently had the chance to speak with Roberto Moctezuma, VP, Desktop Solutions Organization for HP about the company's approach to providing its customers with desktop and client virtualization solutions. I've spoken with one of Roberto's team, Tad Bodman, and posted HP and Desktop Virtualization a while back. ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- 10 reasons for IT failureThe number one reason...I still say the number one reason for failure is the mind set that in some magical way IT project management is different than other diciplines. (Engineering projects as an example.)One of the short comings I see in most curriculum for computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Psystar: Hoax or fraud?
- Psystar: Hoax or fraud?Looks like fraud to meIf they're taking prepaid orders but nobody can find their physical location, it's fairly certain it's a con game. In the unlikely event that the business turns out to be legit, I'll be happy to retract and apologize.clarifications. first of all you...
- Tags: Litigation, fraud, Psystar, Roberto Pedraza, compagny, Hoax, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Europe tries to make open source its own
- Roberto Galloppini right writes from Rome about how everyone there wants to talk about open source, but few want to do much about it. One speaker at a recent conference even suggested a "Euro-centric" public license in place of the GPL. That drew yawns. One...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Vulnerability auction site founder arrested in Italy
- Roberto Preatoni left, one of the brains behind the WabiSabiLabi vulnerability auction site, has been arrested in Italy in connection with an international corporate spying scandal. Details of the allegations are very sketchy but according to published reports out of Italy Google translation, Preatoni's arrest is linked...
- Tags: Telecom Italia, Arrest, Italy, Roberto Preatoni, WabiSabiLabi, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Microsoft hacker summit tackles security veil of virtualization
- The Fall edition of Microsoft's Blue Hat hacker summit will kick off next week with a heavy focus on piercing the security veil of virtualization and process isolation. At Blue Hat v6, scheduled for September 27-28 in Redmond, external security researchers and internal Microsoft software engineers...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Rootkits, Hardware, Storage, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Is the EU spending big bucks for the obvious from QualiPSo?
- QualiPSo bills itself as a "unique alliance of European, Brazilian and Chinese ICT industry players, SMEs, governments and academics to help industries and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness with Open Source software."It's a think tank.Governments, academic institutions, and corporations in Europe, Asia and Brazil have all put in big bucks...
- Tags: big buck, Buck, Dana Blankenhorn, Fact, QualiPSo, Think Tank
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Open- and Closed-Source Services Convergence
- Open- and Closed-Source Services ConvergenceFixed price and modular and limited"While I agree with Roberto that fixed-price services are the right model, it's not specifically an open source issue."When a consulting firm uses proprietary software, its own homebrewed CMS for instance, sometimes they use it to lock the client into continued...
- Tags: Outsourcing, open source, content management system, Fixed Price
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Open-Closed Source Services Convergence
- Recently, Peachtree Pro Accounting was given away for free, making this commercial software look open source, from a financial acquisition perspective.Against this backdrop, I read comments by Roberto Galoppini, where he raises the issues of services in the open source world. Roberto makes this comment:Open Source franchising is aimed at delivering to the...
- Tags: Packaged Services, Open Source, Consulting
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Lenses that bring everything into focus
- Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a new lens device that will shrink huge light waves to pinpoints. The superlens looks like a plate and "is etched with a specific pattern. As the waves pass through the patterned lens, it is sculpted into different sizes and shapes. The...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-07-14
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