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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 source code available.”

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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.

You might want to know who we are and what we do. You can read about us on the contest’s brief section, but the short version is that we are a bunch of Open Source enthusiasts who decided that founding a new company was the best way to further our passion and our interests. I’ll probably tell you more on this in the coming days.

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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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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Open-Source Whatever

Tim Bray: “Open Source Software is its own reward; that, and hanging out with people who share our passions. We don’ need no steenkin’ economics. Or ideologies either.”

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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Free R & D?

Simon Phipps: “So, if you’re discussing the economics of open source, please don’t say we’re here providing ‘free R&D’. The actual investment is huge, I would guess of the order of trillions of dollars for the aggregate F/OSS communities globally measured in US salaries. But no-one ever sees that cost because the F/OSS community is constructed from individual project communities each of which bears its own cost in exchange for its own return on its own terms.”

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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

OpenSource != amateurs

Gianugo Rabellino: “If I really need to draw a line, that would be around the diversity concept: as long as a project is able to catalyze different interest and build communities that foster communication, the Open Source concept is alive and kicking, and it really doesn’t matter much if a project community is focused on corporate strategies rather than individuals’. As long as we’re talking about diverse corporate strategies with community processes that allow for shared participation and governance.”

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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 is open source, are mistaken. But we’ll be taking all the software we are able to and opening the source as soon as we can.”

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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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