The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly “just as we shouldn’t worry about the lack of “billion dollar” pure play open source software firms, we should also not fall sway to the complaints of companies who are being disrupted by these models, about how all [...]
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The open core model is being feted as the new default open source business model. But I assert it does not deliver and sustain the principle that delivers cost savings and flexibility to the customer – software freedom. As a consequence, businesses who live-or-die by open core risk the fate of Compiere ERP unless they [...]
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Openness, Radicalism, and Tolerance “Why isn’t the open crowd more open-minded?” — Another person observing the indisputable fact that the open source and free software worlds are rife with sectarianism. To answer the question, it is a consequence of the passion people have combined with the nature of the issue and the one fact no-one [...]
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Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’ Somehow my body had already worked out that 135º slouch was the perfect posture for working. Not to mention “working”. (tags: Health Work BBC ergonomics) Why I’m worried about Java’s future Forrester analyst with a valid concern about an architectural need for Java that no-one seems to be addressing, and [...]
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Open World Forum 2010 – Agenda This year’s Open World Forum has a packed and scorching hot agenda and I’m honored to be chairing the opening state-of-the-union keynote panel. Make note now on your calendar to be in Paris September 30 and October 1. (tags: Opensource foss events Paris Conference OWF) Which drew the bigger [...]
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The Immortality of Open Source Projects Good snapshot of the history and thinking behind ForgeRock. CBC News – Toronto – Police get new powers for G20 “Police, at their discretion, can deny access to the area and “use whatever force is necessary” to keep people out. Anyone who refuses to identify themselves or refuses to [...]
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This is a work of genius: The conference, JavaZone in Norway, deserves every bit of the attention it’s getting as a consequence. Update: If the YouTube version fails again, you’ll now find the video on the JavaZone site.
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No Sleep ‘Til Fusion Wonderfully written story from Quinn about low-budget experimentation with fusion reactions. (tags: Fusion Energy Science Story) Live map of London Underground trains Interesting mashup showing the trains on the London Underground as little moving markers on the map. For some reason it seems like something out of a Harry Potter movie. [...]
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Marten Mickos says open source doesn’t have to be fully open This was the received wisdom among the senior VPs at Sun just before the fall of the company. While there is a marginal justification for adding some closed software at the periphery of a large open source project, having a hobbyist-featured core that’s open [...]
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Maybe it’s a trend, or maybe I just noticed because I was looking, but following my article last week about the strange parallels between Life of Brian and the critics of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement, there have been a number of similar articles. Former OpenSUSE community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier wrote [...]
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