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Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Google Summer Of Code results

Vincent Massol: “The SOC was good. It has boosted the open source community quite remarkably (even though it has also probably put some strain on it…). Out of all the students I’ve mentored I think 2 or 3 of them (out of 6 initially) will continue to work on the open source project they’ve participated […]

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Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Defining successful open source communities

Matt Asay: “As in commercial software, there is no free lunch. If you want people to use your code, you have to spend the time and effort to build something worth downloading, using, and commenting on. It’s no easier than commercial software, and requires an equivalent amount of work. The payoff, however, is a user […]

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Saturday, September 24th, 2005

JBoss in the press

Marc Fleury: “The truth is that today, Jboss is a much different company than it was even a year ago. We were at 70 people and still young, today we are 150 people and it looks like a corporation in action.”
Let’s just hope it doesn’t get too much like a real corporation, with hierarchies and […]

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Saturday, September 24th, 2005

RMS never, ever gets off-message

Matt Asay: “I guess I’d find more merit in this if I felt that software freedom was on par with the majority of human problems we struggle with each day. It may be a means to solve some of those problems, but not many. That’s why I’ve never been able to get excited about hardline […]

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Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Can open source companies innovate?

Neil McAllister: “So it seems to me that, unless I’m missing something, Gates might be right. Without additional revenue from software licenses, ‘pure’ open source companies have two options: either charge support fees that are substantially higher than those of proprietary software vendors, or else forget about innovation.”
(Via Matt Asay.)

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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Open source developing nations

Matt Asay: “Open source, in short, can allow an economy to develop at its own pace, self-contained. Once those local companies have excelled at serving local markets, they’re ready to expand internationally.”

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Friday, September 16th, 2005

The Open Source choice - less may be more

Matthew Langham: “So, for Open Source to be successful in the corporate market we need to be looking at combining Open Source solutions that address similar problems (license issues need to be taken into consideration).”

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Friday, September 16th, 2005

Mozilla faces the curse of popularity

Dana Blankenhorn: “Regardless of whether your process is proprietary or open source, you still need a process to collect bug reports, test patches, and expedite them to users. That process is always a bottleneck. We don’t know whether it’s more of a bottleneck (because you can’t order around armies of programmers) or less of one […]

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