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Sunday, October 30th, 2005

VON Magazine on The Open Source Craze

Ivelin Ivanov: “The biggest challange is apparently to get community projects in front of big enterprises. Competing against Nortel, Cisco, Avaya with infinitely bigger marketing budgets is an obstacle. Another factor is migration path from existing legacy systems. OSS projects tend to be all or nothing or do it yourself.”

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Friday, October 28th, 2005

Red Hat CEO decries open source pretenders

Channel Register: “Companies that don’t remain true to the GPL or who don’t endorse patent-free software violate the concept of open source and are hurting innovation, Szulik said.”

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Thursday, October 27th, 2005

The Zen of Open

Matt Raible: “Closed-room development would be insufficient. The old way was lock smart people in a room and slide pizza under the door - and then charge others admission fees to watch them work. Software that’s developed out in the open gets better and better b/c you can get all the experts working on it. […]

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Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Producing Open Source Software

Karl Fogel: “The ability to write clearly is perhaps the most important skill one can have in an open source environment. In the long run it matters more than programming talent. A great programmer with lousy communications skills can get only one thing done at a time, and even then may have trouble convincing others […]

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Thursday, October 27th, 2005

SourceForge and the $1 Mark

Phil Whirlycott: “I think that the problem with SourceForge is that they are providing 1999-era functionality based on a business model that really is not much more than an afterthought after the collapse of their hardware business. Consequently, the core functionality in the SourceForge project hasn%u2019t changed all that much in the past six years. […]

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Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Preparing for the post-sourceforge world

Gregor J. Rothfuss: “To say that there are many areas of improvement in the way open source software is produced is an understatement. The obvious observation that there are a power laws in effect with regards to quality and popularity of a project makes me wonder what can be done to improve life for the […]

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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Things I learned at EuroOSCON

Simon Willison: “Open Standards are even more important than open code. One of Simon Phipps’ key points was that while open source may mean freedom for developers, it’s open standards that provide freedom for regular users.”

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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

The power of Open Source

Steve Loughran: “Because the power of Open Source does not come from the code, it doesn’t come from the effort of full time developers, it comes from amplifying the effort of all those part time developers, fixing their own little problems and sharing the work.”

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Monday, October 24th, 2005

A collapse in OS activity predicted

Martin Fowler: “On panels ‘Bedarra’ Dave Thomas and Brian Barry said that they believed the current spate of Open Source development was unsustainable. Much support for open source is funded by large companies, IBM’s support for Eclipse is a long one. They felt that this support wouldn’t last, if so there’s likely to be quite […]

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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

To Build or To Better?

Jim Jagielski: “Again, we see how Open Source takes something which, at least in part, is a selfish desire (’I need something so I’ll use this’) and turns it into something good. Open Source is the alchemy of development and community, turning lead into gold.”

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