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Sunday, July 31st, 2005

Similarity between contracts and open source code

Joi Ito (quoting Karen Copenhaver): “And since there are a lot of attorneys in the room, I always tell this story, but it’s just to level set everybody, because sometimes I’d look out and see a sea of attorneys, and they’re acting like you developers that put this Open Source into the source code, like […]

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Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Greasemonkey in crisis

Jon Udell: “Some say that open source software is inherently secure because the ‘open source process’ makes it so. Wrong. Open source software, and the collaborative culture that surrounds it, have surely enhanced Firefox’s security. But also necessary is a disciplined approach to reducing the attack surface area. And one of the most vocal and […]

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Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Open Source Community: How to win friends and influence developers

Dave Rosenberg: “If you were to contemplate starting a software company in today’s market, you might consider one of many open source models. Clearly the IT marketplace wants open-source applications. Why else would they keep moving up the stack and continue to take market share from proprietary software companies?”

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Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Latest Microsoft-Open Source Rhetoric

Nat Torkington: “‘Open source?’ you say. ‘Shared Source isn’t Open Source’. Actually, both ‘open source’ and ’shared source’ are names for groups of licenses. And they do overlap. The Windows Installer XML (WiX) project, is both Shared Source and Open Source (the Common Public License having been blessed by the Open Source Initiative. WiX is […]

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Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Succeeding with Open Source

Richard Monson-Haefel: “I was really blown away by the accessibility and accuracy of Golden’s writing. Having been involved in open source for about 6 years in one context or another, I found his analysis of open source software to be spot-on. If you are looking for a simple, guided, and clear methodology for evaluating the […]

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Friday, July 22nd, 2005

VCs funding the wrong guys?

Matt Asay: “In short, it’s not for the faint of heart, and not something you can just pick up by reading a few books. Open source is a community mentality that simply isn’t easily adopted, especially by those whose history lies in proprietary success.”

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Monday, July 18th, 2005

Open Source Positioning

Sacha Labourey: “As I was thinking about the way companies (mostly software vendors) position towards Open Source, I realized I could try to categorize them.

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Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Software goes free

Phil Wainewright : ” As more and more organizations come to understand and implement truly platform-independent SOA, they will increasingly make such calculations — and the comparisons will gradually edge their way up the stack until even the tools that business managers use for codeless application assembly will be built with open-source software.”

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Friday, July 15th, 2005

Professional Open Source

Ed Burnette: “Someday, and it might be 5 years or 100 years, but someday it’s likely that all software will be open source. But most people won’t care. The value of software is in what it DOES, not the curly braces and semicolons that make it do that. As more and more software niches are […]

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Friday, July 15th, 2005

M$FT and OSS: the cat and mouse game

Omar Tazi: “Until I see Microsoft implement some of the actions I mentioned above I will continue to think that they are reaching out to the OSS community to better understand their enemy before strangling it. Only this time the enemy is not a smaller vendor, it is distributed globally, growing fast and very hard […]

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