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I came across this great schematic while looking for graphics for an upcoming presentation at COSS.fi in Helsinki: It's very clever, and generally well done. But I think it overlooks more than half the threats to open source by fixating on Micro
Citi is trying to cut $4.6B from its IT budget over the next few years. A laudable goal, especially given how much of that money is almost certainly pure waste, proprietary shelfware that never lived up to expectations. Or maybe IT priorities simply
This is the sort of thing that makes me like Google again. Google just announced work on the open source OCRopus project, a document analysis and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system:The goal of the project is to advance the state of the art in
Folks, the end is near. The Proprietary Bloc may not feel it quite yet, but the nails are already hitting the coffin. Here's just one nail: the Oregon Department of Human Services (9,500 employees and a $10B budget) just scrapped its proprietary
Allison captures the alleged GPL/Apache incompatibility really well, and makes an implicit plea for the FSF to stop pretending the two are incompatible. She writes, trying to decipher the FSF's apparent attempts to strain at the Apache gnat (and
Geir Magnusson of the Apache Software Foundation has issued an open letter to Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, asking Sun to provide an "acceptable license" for the test kit for Java SE. He writes:Since August 2006, the ASF has b
LogicBlaze is Iona's second purchase aimed at growing its SOA business
Apparently, OpenSUSE is a bit hobbled in its functionality, as Slashdot is reporting. Why? Funny you should ask. Apparently, because of the Novell/Microsoft patent deal. No, it makes no sense to me, either. I'm assuming that there is a mistake h
Over the last year I have found that everyone I run into has some comment or question about managing a growing business. Matt and I thought it would be good to discuss some of the startup mechanics that are unique to an open source model and those th
I have tried/used pretty much every email client in existence (remember when Pine was like gold?) I've found that the biggest issue -- even beyond the UI is the ability to easily get mail in and out of various clients if you want to switch. I wa