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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Eyeballs

Nat Torkington: ” Those companies who would launch an open source project by firing sourcecode over the enterprise firewall with a Sourceforge trebuchet need to take heed: finding someone technical, engaging, and inspirational to lead that open source project is just as much a necessary and sufficient condition for open source success as making the […]

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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Strip Mining and Waste Dumping in Open Source

Marc Fleury: “Don’t believe the hype and the FUD. Pure open source has no gimmicks, and the users and customers will settle the score. At JBoss, what you see is what you get and what we support.”

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Monday, February 20th, 2006

European effort to compete with Google/Yahoo, and local open source advocacy

Mark Watson: “Every time I hear about a country starting a national program adopting Open Source, I also think that they are doing the right thing for long term economic and technical power. Really, what country should depend strongly on proprietary software written and owned by a company in a foreign country?”

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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Design a fancy logo, win a MacBook Pro

Would you like a brand new, Intel-powered. MacBook Pro? All you have to do is design a logo for our new company. We will select the one we like most and award the winner a 1.67GHz MacBook Pro. Head on to the contest section of the website and be sure to read all the rules.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Open Source Business Defined

Simon Phipps: “I would define an open source business as a company that’s business model fundamentally depends on open source software and is positively engaged in the ‘virtuous cycle’ of the community from which that software is derived.”

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