I expect to be in the USA in early-to-mid May (and possibly again in July). If you would like me to speak at a private or public event, or to provide consulting services, I would be pleased to hear from you. Combining multiple engagements saves money, saves energy and is good for us all! Please use my contact form to get in touch and I or my agent will get back to you.
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Please stop sending .DOC or .DOCX files as attachments to your e-mails. There is a better way. Send editable PDFs. I explain how in ComputerWorldUK today.
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The enterprise IT world is coming to grips with a new buzz-TLA; “BYOD”. It stands for Bring Your Own Device and considers the way employees are bringing their own laptops, tables and smart-phones to work and using them in the overlap of life and work. There’s a growing industry of companies who want to help you stop it, cripple it, or control it.
My experiences at Sun Microsystems suggest BYOD is an opportunity waiting to be grasped for enterprise IT executives — a move to management by standards rather than centrally purchased company desktops. It means selecting a basket of server-supported standard capabilities (IMAP, LDAP, PDF, HTML5, ODF, and so on) and telling people that anything that works securely with those standards is acceptable. It also offers the prospect of letting people use open source software that works with those standards, rather than having to buy everyone the same expensive proprietary software and instantly-depreciating hardware, then manage them expensively until they are legacy systems.
You can read my thoughts on this phenomenon – and its potential impact on open source on the desktop – on InfoWorld today.
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I’ve expanded my earlier posting about Google+ and you’ll find not five but seven tips over on ComputerWorldUK today!
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Why does a successful entrepreneur like Mark Cuban hate software patents so much? Surely they are just the sort of business tool he would value? I explain why in my Friday column on InfoWorld today.
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Randal and I interviewed David Lutterkort from the Apache DeltaCloud Project yesterday on FLOSS Weekly and the show is already live for online viewing and listening. DeltaCloud is an abstraction layer that allows you to write cloud applications that are cloud platform independent, so you are both future-proof and not locked in. It’s an interesting project and we had a good discussion – check out the show.
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Yahoo’s litigation against Facebook is one more example in an unending sequence that demonstrates patents are now primarily a weapon to chill competition rather than a protection for innovation. Read more over at ComputerWorldUK.
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You may have spotted two posts by me on InfoWorld in the US recently (one about LibreOffice and one about OIN). I’m pleased to say that I was approached by them to take over the widely-read “Open Sources” column. Naturally I accepted their proposal and I hope to write every Friday for them. Thanks to Savio Rodrigues for the excellent work he has done to build the readership there – those will be big shoes to fill. All story ideas welcome!
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Are you safer from software patents today, or more at risk? The news that the Open Invention Network (OIN) has extended the definition of “Linux” so that more software is covered by its patent pool is good news, no question. But the new definition also includes carve-outs that put all Linux developers on notice that Phillips and Sony reserve the right to sue over virtualization, search, user interfaces and more – including Android, which is conspicuously absent from the list. Seems consumer devices powered by Linux are in the cross-hairs. Read about it in my column today on InfoWorld.
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The Open Rights Conference is coming up in London on March 24 and has a glittering array of speakers including Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow. Read all about it over on ComputerWorldUK!
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