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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

ActiveGrid - where’s the business?

Kevin Dangoor: “Are they starting one of the fabled services-based open source companies, or is there something else coming up?”

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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Is eBay really friendly to open source?

Dana Blankenhorn: “Life doesn’t work that way. When you open yourself up to third parties, you open yourself up. If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the open source kitchen.”

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Monday, June 27th, 2005

Tales from the Italian Java Conference

Gianugo Rabellino: “Time will tell, of course, but my suggestion to the plethora of OSS companies I met in the last few days would be learning to be a part of the bigger picture before planning to be ’someone’ in the commercial OSS world. If markets are conversations, then clearly no man (and no company) […]

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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

The open source fetish

Matt Asay: “‘Will open source win’ is a dumb question. It already has. The better question goes toward what, in fact, it has won.”

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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

There really are a lot of really nice people in open source

Leo Simons: “This is the kind of professional open source that I love to see. With lots of respect for one another, granting each other the space they deserve, and trying hard to focus on the positive.”

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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Intel and the World OSS Community

Danese Cooper: “Open Source is fundamentally a bootstrapping phenomenon, and participation rather than mere use is the key to reward.”

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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Innovation Happens Elsewhere

Ted Leung: “If you have questions about open source, or want to read a good treatment, you should pick up this book (the content will be online at some point). I know that I am going to be directing people to the book when they want to know more about open source.”

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Friday, June 17th, 2005

The games industry and open source

Nat Torkington: “I love the idea that rampant burnout in the games industry will help open source.”

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Friday, June 17th, 2005

Open sourcing GlueCode

Mark Watson: “James argues that open source is better for huge companies like IBM than for small companies, and he is probably right. However, I would argue that open source infrastructure software is even better for consultants (like me!) because it facilitates driving down the overall costs of projects so customers can afford more consulting […]

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Friday, June 17th, 2005

Open Source is way more fun

Steve Northover: “As a developer who has worked on both closed and open source projects all I can tell you is that open source is way more fun. For example, when you fix a bug, you really make someone happy. The feedback is instantaneous. There’s also a great feeling about working in the open. However, […]

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