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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Avoiding Disappointment

Simon Phipps: “There is definitely a lot of work involved in taking an existing commercial project and making it open source. I’d thus never do it lightly, nor would I expect it to be possible to always do it quickly. People who think you can just snap your fingers and - presto - the software […]

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Saturday, December 17th, 2005

Adium is the Future

Tim Bray: “Software of the future will be Open Source, will have a sophisticated and smart user interface, will take responsibility for making sure it’s up to date, and will meet essential human needs. Like Adium.”

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Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Let’s get a real database

Ron Garret: “As an aside, there is a raging debate in the hacker community about the overall economic merit of the open source model. (Making money producing free software is quite a challenge.) I am not taking sides in that debate here. All I am saying is that from the end user’s point of view […]

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Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

War of the Worlds act 4: The Elephant and The Tiger

Marc Fleury: “Why cannot the elephant fight like the tiger? Assume IBM or BEA resolved the internal political battles over open-sourcing their proprietary technology. Make the even less likely assumption that they could make ditching hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for a smaller eventual outcome palatable to Wall Street and their shareholders who […]

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Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Open Source 2.0

Ian Holsman: “My fear, is that the open source brand and what it stands for is getting muddied and corrupted as more “2.0″ products get released out into the wild, and think that the open source 1.0 should rebrand them selves with another moniker now so as the user base can easily differentiate between a […]

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Monday, December 5th, 2005

Need an Open Source project? Buy one!

Matthew Langham: “If you need an Open Source project to complement your offering then perhaps you should just go out and find a company with the correct proprietary product, purchase the technology and Open Source it.”

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Monday, December 5th, 2005

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0

Jim Jagielski: “In the over 10 years since Apache was released, I’ve seen developers come and go, yet the community remains, and it’s the community that develops. I’ve seen other open source projects whither and die when a ‘key’ developer leaves, yet healthy ASF projects continue to grow, because we’ve always stressed the community; and […]

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Sunday, December 4th, 2005

Free Grows Revenue

Jonathan Schwartz: “Free software creates volumes that lead the demand for deployments - which generate license and support revenues just as they did before the products were free. Free software grows revenue opportunities.”

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