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- Open Source's debt to corporations
- Open Source's debt to corporationsEuropiansHow maddening they are! They can be VERY progressive and technically savvy (like the M$ ruling), and then be so techno-stupid when it comes to this OSS stuff! ;)Villasante does have a point thoI didn't read his comments to be particularly bashing of US companies -...
- Tags: open source, big corporation, Villasante, IBM Corp., contribution, open-source software, software
- Discussion threads 2005-06-01
- IT giants accused of exploiting open source
- IT giants accused of exploiting open sourceThis is a problem?Maybe it's a European thing, but where I live there's nothing wrong with being a "contractor." In fact, being an independent contractor is the #1 way that most Americans become independent.Then again, that may be what Europeans see as the...
- Tags: information technology, OSS, IBM Corp., Villasante, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2005-05-31
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- Microsoft embedding social media in Dynamics
- Earlier today I spent time with Craig Dewar and Julio de Villasante, both of whom are working on social media style applications at Microsoft for the business applications divisions. Microsoft is no stranger to communities having operated MSDN and Channel 9 for some years. However, building...
- Tags: Community, Idea, Social Media, Microsoft Corp., Craig Dewar, Social Networking, Business Structures, Balanced Scorecard, Financial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing Research, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Open Source's debt to corporations
- Jesus Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society and Media Directorate General try saying that after a few beers, accused American IT companies of using open source programmers to their own nefarious ends. Companies are using the potential of communities as subcontractors--the open-source community today (is...
- Tags: Jesus Villasante, open source
- Blog posts 2005-05-31
- Open Source's debt to corporations
- Jesus Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society and Media Directorate General try saying that after a few beers, accused American IT companies of using open source programmers to their own nefarious ends. Companies are using the potential of communities as subcontractors--the open-source community today (is...
- Tags: Jesus Villasante, open source
- Blog posts 2005-05-31
- Europe fights for the open source wheel
- Before dismissing Jesús Villasante's attack on corporate open source as mere carping from "Old Europe," let's ask if there is some justice in it. (The picture is from the conference program.) Villasante isn't demanding anything. He's not calling for European leadership of open source. He's not even threatening to...
- Tags: open source, Jesús Villasante
- Blog posts 2005-05-31
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