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Archive for April, 2005

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Open Source Software: What’s Next?

Omar Tazi: “I also believe that the penetration of open source in the enterprise application world might be even faster than its penetration in the underlying layers simply because there is a big market opportunity for services and the open source community will be much more enthusiastic about developing enterprise applications to solve real world […]

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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

Industry Analysts: Are they ready for the open source community?

Richard Monson-Haefel: “If you’ve been working in open source for a while, you’ll know what I mean. Go out on a limb and say something controversial (i.e. Microsoft is better than Linux), and people will take you to task. They will challenge your thesis and dispute your evidence. You had better be ready to defend […]

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Friday, April 22nd, 2005

The Coming Open Source Dumping Grounds

Steve Mallett: “However; making your product open source because of poor profits is a dreadful motivator. We are not a dumping ground!”

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Friday, April 22nd, 2005

Teaching Open Source to CS students

Sylvain Wallez: “I really think opensource is something that should now be part of what is taught to CS students, so that they understand what it is, how it works and why it is important.”

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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Open Source integrity

Matthew Langham: “Now, maintaining that integrity towards the Open Source community on the one side and still being able to look your commercially minded colleagues and managers in the eye is not easy. In fact it’s a rough ride and you should be prepared to battle it out on several fronts at once. Things may […]

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Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

CDDL isn’t that wonderful from this side of the fence, either.

Justin Erenkrantz: “The BSD-style licenses are the truest forms of ‘open source’ - you do what you want, just don’t use our service or trade marks. If you want to contribute it back, brilliant. If not, have fun.”

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Sunday, April 17th, 2005

The metamorphosis of the software industry

Omar Tazi: “This simply means that many companies that provide high quality services around open source projects or bundles could potentially become billion dollar companies. Recently, we’ve seen several of those companies getting serious venture money. I was getting bored with Linux (Novell and Red Hat) being isolated open source successes. Seeing VCs inject money […]

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Saturday, April 16th, 2005

License Craziness

Tim Bray: “You know, it would be nice to have a serious discussion about Open-Source licensing issues; but that’s getting harder and harder every day.”

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Friday, April 15th, 2005

The New Gold Rush

Steve Mallett: “I have a real fear of a gold rush happening in this space now that VC money has stepped into the picture and I think it will be important for companies new and founded to have a firm grasp on the ‘paradigm’ that is developing software and a company in the open source […]

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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

Surviving and Thriving in the Software Business

David Orme: “The successful software author of the new millenium will be someone who has mastered the open-source way of working, who is familiar with the vast array of open-source resources, who understands the strengths and weaknesses of the various open-source business models, and who can successfully compete in a global arena.”

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