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Saturday, August 20th, 2005

SUSE opens to yawn

Dana Blankenhorn: “I think many of the same forces you find in commercial software exist in open source as well. Me-too doesn’t get the job done. If you want to make a big spash you really need to be better, or at least different. And given the fact that it’s a community that drives better […]

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Saturday, August 20th, 2005

The well-mannered marketplace

Joe Brockmeier: “Of course, open source is emphatically not well-mannered from the point of view of the entertainment industry (or the software industry, for that matter). Just the opposite, in fact. When people take matters into their own hands by writing open source software, they have a tendency to create software that does what they […]

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Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Something for nothing

Dana Blankenhorn: “Even free GPL code carries with it an obligation, to share your enhancements. Shareware expects you to buy it eventually, if it’s useful. Only the variants of the BSD license really give you something for nothing, and then the something is mainly given to big outfits who can afford to make (and market) […]

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Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Transparency and relationships

Simon Phipps: “As I said, the key change that open source brings about is transparency - it’s at the heart of changed business models and also profoundly changes the way software developers relate. At the delivery end, transparency means charging only for the value you add between the commons and the customer. In development, transparency […]

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Friday, August 19th, 2005

OSO - A Milestone on Sun’s Journey

Simon Phipps: “Today in 2005 we’ve reached a milestone. Sun’s stated direction is to use an open source model for all its software, and it’s become necessary to have a formal co-ordination point for all this activity. So today Sun created a new ‘Open Source Office’ (OSO) to act as the meeting-point for all its […]

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Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Open source pricing

Matt Asay: “Source code transparency is nice, but product pricing transparency may even be nicer. People will pay for value - if a company has to shroud its value in secrecy, there’s probably not much value there.”

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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

The future of open source in the enterprise

Brian Behlendorf: “People have historically used open source software without bothering to tell their bosses. And they’ve historically used it in places where it is invisible: for mail servers, DNS servers and Web servers. That has started to shift. The next phase will be using open source for application servers. Enterprises are getting comfortable now […]

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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Architecture of participation, architecture of control

Jon Udell: “I choose the open process. But I don’t believe that every innovation, effective method, or competitive advantage flows from that openness. Important initiatives can arise anywhere. Executing them may require an architecture of control along with an architecture of participation. Merging the two styles is a daunting challenge, and perhaps in the end […]

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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Another Legacy of OSS

Jim Jagielski: “All the lessons learned from OSS, as far as distributed collaborative development, will be directly applicable to that cultural shift. There has been so much effort and discussion regarding how OSS-style development will ‘revolutionize’ software development (all correct, of course), but that is so restrictive and limiting. We are paving the way for […]

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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Death to the J2EE era

Brandon Werner: “I am thrilled about the huge change in technology, where open source and the participation age is driving innovation in corporate america just to keep up with us.”

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