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Rob Curley is in the middle of an entertaining and informative session on how to shake up enterprise IT with open source. ("Hacking the Newspaper: How an Open-Source Nerd from Kansas is Revitalizing Journalism") Rob is a highly engaging spe
GPLv3 doesn't compel companies like Google and Yahoo to give back Linux code, but community pressure could drive contributions
Open source startup's 'meta bus' simplifies software integration
Someone just asked Eben Moglen about why GPLv3 didn't stick to its original intention to apply the GPL to distribution on the web, by which I mean distribution of software as a service over the Internet. I found Eben's original answer (&quo
Eben Moglen is brilliant. Period. I don't think there can be any question on that matter. He's in the middle of his exceptional OSBC keynote and it's a reminder to all who force themselves to limp through open source that there is much
Ah, poor Nortel. It must be terrible to only have $11 billion in revenues. So terrible, in fact, that if anyone dared to use an open source PBX, it would be grounds for complaining about it. Voiciferously. Wouldn't you? Well, that's apparen
I'm in the CIO Hotseat session at OSBC. I love this session. We came up with it two or three years ago and it's always one of my favorite sessions, because it helps attendees (including me) get into the minds of CIOs. This time we have Niel
Interesting session, with a good mix of analysts, enterprise IT, and Mike Olson (Oracle - only vendor on the panel). The panel was designed to tackle questions about how big, proprietary companies are responding to open source startups. Net net: open
I'm not sure what happened. This is the second session I've been to today, and both have been standing room only. This one ("Construtive Disruption: An Enterprise Perspective on Open Source") has been excellent. Robin Vasan, Manag
Venture capital injections will help both companies expand services, employee ranks