Posted on July 23, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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In the debate about open standards at the Cloud Summit on Tuesday, one speaker argued powerfully that standards follow innovation rather than delivering it, an observation that those of us with involvement in the world of standards have long understood. Early standardisation indicates there are vendors attempting to lock a market, and that’s exactly what lay behind the formation of WS-I in 2002. Now that web services are generally marginalised in favour of REST, WS-I has packed up shop and archived itself at OASIS. Good move.
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Posted on July 22, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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“This means that Open Core companies, in itself, will have an easier time in monetizing their software, but will receive much less contributions in exchange. As I wrote before, it is simply not possible to get something like Linux or Apache with Open Core.”
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Posted on July 21, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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James Gosling wrote in 1990: “standards are increasingly being viewed as competitive weapons rather than as technological stabilizers. Companies use standards as a way to inhibit their competition from developing advantageous technology. As soon as technical activity is observed by political/economic forces, their interest rises dramatically because they see a possible threat that must be countered before it gains strength.”
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In-depth with NASA on why open core is not good for them and why they needed open source so much in their cloud they did it themselves.
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Posted on July 20, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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Dave Neary’s thorough analysis of the problem with open core is right on the nail.
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The thinking behind the launch of open source cloud software at OpenStack is classic – grow the market by being truly open and everybody wins. This is exactly the opposite of the thinking behind dual license and open core approaches.
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Andrew Oliver takes a close look at the blog post by Larry Augustin from SugarCRM.
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Posted on July 19, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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Very significant initiative. The fact it’s under the Apache licence makes it highly reusable, and the diversity of the participants combined with open governance gives confidence it can evolve freely and openly. Most interesting is the NASA comment that their work was a response to Eucalyptus choosing to decline input from NASA because it would harm their (open core) business model.
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Monty Widenius makes a good attempt to define an “open source company” in the face of the dilution of the term at the hands of besuited open core corporations.
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Posted on July 18, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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Looks like this is the canonical list of which open source projects matter to Oracle. Notable for what’s missing as well as for what’s there. Also interesting that while the page is overwhelmingly about open source they still feel compelled to mention open standards.
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Excellent response to the New York Times’ article calling for the ergulation of Google, and with a delightful parody of their article as well.
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Posted on July 14, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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While their marketing guy may claim “that overall, Sugar 6 is an open source product from an open source company”, it’s hard to see how they are anything other than a proprietary software company who share some code with a related open source project. Claiming to be “an open source company” seems an unacceptable use of the open source brand to me.
Open Core is bad for you.
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Posted on July 6, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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Lovely Woot piece today, pointing out that if Woot quoted AP the way AP quoted Woot, they would demand payment. AP’s position is ridiculous becuase it assumes AP is in some way a different class of publisher to the rest of us. Rather hoping Woot don’t let it rest here…
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I never upgraded my Nokia phones for exactly this reason. I hope Nokia is getting the message; this is exactly the same issue that made Debian and Ubuntu superior to old-fashioned Unix. Package management is the killer app for mobile devices, at least it is for now.
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This seems to be the “open core of open data” and it’s so obviously wrong that we need to make a huge fuss about it here in the UK.
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Posted on July 5, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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Pamela picks up both my article and Mark’s and asks the obvious question. For the record, Mark is wrong to assert that I think only copyleft licenses are proper open source licenses. As for the “what does freedom mean” question Pamela is asking, that one will run and run and is at the root of the division between the BSD-ish and GPL-ish approaches.
- Open Core Is Not A Crime
“I appreciate why advocates of software freedom are wary of open core. It does perpetuate proprietary software licensing, and it does so via open source. But that does not make it a crime. And a considerable amount of code has been contributed to the commons by open core vendors. Meanwhile even those that would wish to do something to remedy the situation are without the means to do so. Hence the endless and futile debate.”
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Posted on July 4, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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Important explanation of why the patent thicket around video formats on the internet is a threat to both democracy and innovation. Worth your time to read this.
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I am totally amazed this was not already the policy.
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“We decided from the outset to set the formula for our bars-of-signal strength indicator to make the iPhone look good — to make it look as if it “gets more bars”. That decision has now bitten us on our ass.”
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I remember Monty telling me that a major motivation for his own business ventures was to ensure the MySQL community was able to retain key members rtaher than having them move to competitors like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Each new venture makes that goal more achievable. Project continuity is turning out to be proven value of the open source model.
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