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Jonathan Schwartz said something very interesting on his blog today. (I wish he blogged more, and with fewer happy Sun employee faces in his blogs, but this one was good.) He was talking about Sun's licensing of its Neptune ASIC to Marvell, and
I'm in the middle of finalizing Alfresco's (for the Americas) sales compensation plan. It has been one of the most difficult things I've ever done. You'd think it was just a matter of setting commission percentages and accelerator
Rod Johnson of Spring/Interface21 fame talked with Martin LaMonica at CNET and came up with this nugget of wisdom:Rod Johnson, the creator of the popular open-source Spring framework, has boiled down the question of open-source business viability to
Just when I finished writing about how open source licenses have little to say about SaaS, along comes Lumen with an open source SaaS platform. Microsoft talks about Windows Live Core. Salesforce talks about Apex. But PHP applications are out there a
I was reading an interesting piece by Matt McAlister that discusses "Media as a Service" in which the "domain name for an online media service is becoming sort of an abstract utility or maybe just a brand address for media services rat
Mark Radcliffe joins us this week to give his expert opinion on the latest draft of GPLv3. Mark is a friend and one of the industry's premier IP attorneys, especially with open source licensing questions. He is outside counsel for the OSI and ch
An interesting thing is happening. Technology is moving forward. The licenses that govern that technology are not. I just spent the last two hours with Bungee Labs, a company that is basicaly building Sourceforge for the 21st Century. Here's wha
One of the things that all of us OSS business monkeys eventually learn is that we spend way too much of our time on conference calls with attorneys. Today I came across my new favorite game over on Adult Swim - 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself. It's l
...is disguised as a hardware and services company. Yesterday's WSJ has a great article on IBM's software business, focusing in on the impact that Steve Mills has had in building it up. Some interesting facts from the article:IBM's M&a
Steve Mills has sounded off on the GPL. From reading these comments, and from watching IBM over the years, it seems that IBM is a fan of any open source software that it can incorporate into its products (or product line) without giving anything back