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I wish I would have been at this conference. But all I get to read is this report. Sounds like the Defense community is quickly learning that open source breeds more security, not less:When someone brings up the current state of national intelligence
Sometimes I don't make any friends with the things I write, but it's nice to see that bribery still works just fine (at least with 11-year olds): Caleb is the son of a great friend of mine. His note, completely unexpected, made my day. But
Novell has done one amazingly thoughtless, short-sighted thing related to patents. Now it's apparently trying to rectify some of the damage it has done to open source. And it's doing it with a group that has an impeccable record on patent r
In a February 2007 report, Gartner Dataquest found that the compound annual growth rate of open-source software (43%) between 2006 and 2011 will more than quintuple that of proprietary software (8%). The firm projects open-source software sales to re
Mike Dutton, a good friend and co-founder of OSBC, was reading one of my blog entries and found this hilarious discrepancy: So, on the left you have E*Trade declaring that Linux has driven huge value for it. On the right, in an advertisement, you hav
Mary Jo asks the question whether some of Google's recent actions would pass the Microsoft sniff test. If you want to evaluate the “evil” quotient of any company’s strategy/behavior, consider how you’d feel about it if it
Interesting session on how to price the exit of open source companies. Alfresco is a few years from having to worry about this, but it was interesting to get into the minds of the investment bankers and VCs to see how they value open source vendors.
John Prendergast with Jeffries introduced the panel with some statistics and thoughts on what the market looks like and what potential exits could be. So far there has been $1.3-1.9 Billion dollars of investment into open source companies. Exits only
Lee Thompson gave a strong keynote this morning [Slides here]. It was particularly impressive given the scale at which E*Trade runs open source software. In fact, Lee argued that this scale far outpaces what proprietary software - as a model - can ac
Marten is such a fantastic person and speaker. He's in the middle of his keynote ("Why Freedom Makes a Better Business Model"). [Slides here.] Marten is taking an interesting spin on open source, suggesting that freedom is the best bus