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Mark has a great post on the foibles of DRM. His verdict? DRM simply does not work. It never has. It's an old way of attacking an old problem. I don't have any religious antipathy to DRM, myself. I'm a strong critic of it when it comes
Paul Graham has an interesting piece on the day that Microsoft "died." Not that Microsoft has gone away. Last I checked, the company is still milking billions of dollars in profits each year. But Paul's point is different. Microsoft is
Open Enterprise draws to a successful end, but InfoWorld's in-depth open source coverage has just begun
I just finished reading to my oldest daughter. We're in the middle of the third book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (The Amber Spyglass). The books have been fascinating enough, but tonight I turned to Pullman's Acknowle
I was reading through some old Jeff Nolan posts and came across this one, and it opened a sore. Jeff comments on this CNET article about Oracle's response to Microsoft's per-CPU/socket pricing. Microsoft made the decision to charge per-CPU/
A friend chided me yesterday for taking a strident, shrill (and often unfair) tone against a range of companies. Given the respect I have for him, his comments gave me pause, and pushed me to reconsider some of the views I've expressed in this b
I've been having an ongoing dialog with a number of very large SIs and very large enterprises about how open source "support subscriptions" are still confusing to a great many purchasing departments. Technically speaking, most open sou
My infinite quest for operational efficiency continues to be elusive. Despite my love for Zimbra, our dev team really wanted to switch to Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise. I do the Google Apps, but I am finding that if you have lots of mail alrea
I don't use Vista because I prefer the Mac. I prefer Windows to the Linux desktop, though, so if Steve Jobs were to die tomorrow and take OS X with him, I'd be back on Windows. I'm just not smart enough to use a Linux desktop. I'v
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of Oracle's attempt to co-opt Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But I have to admire Mike's recent post on the topic. Mike makes no apologies and lays out very good, business-driven reasons for Oracle