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I posted this over at BytesFree.org [http://www.bytesfree.org/]. The subject matter is about Linux, specifically, but really it could apply to any Open Source software user. Re-posting below: Over at the TuxToday blog [http://tuxtoday.wordpress.com/], there’s a post about Linux users not caring ab
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For those of you with a dislike of all things political, I strongly suggest you avert your eyes from this post. If you've already booked your ticket to SCALE [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/], I hope you'll drop by the Open Source Politics birds-of-a-feather on Friday at 8pm in the appropriately nam
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On the Open Sources blog [http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/], Savio Rodrigues goes to great lengths to basically say "It's proprietary Open Source! Not that there's anything wrong with that... [http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/01/proprietary_ope.html]" Savio's point is
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I finally wrote something for the Hyperic blog [http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/]: > The term innovation opportunity has been discussed by Matthew Aslett, who > described it as "the potential to lower development costs for business users, > while at the same time raising their potential to fo
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As I await the impending cure for writers block (today? tomorrow? next week???) I thought I would shout out to my manager, Stacey, who wrote a great post entitled "Nobel Prize Implies Open Source is A Perfect Market" - an analysis of this paper [http://www.sss.ias.edu/publications/papers/econpaper25
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Here's a little test for you - quick, name the hardware vendor about which the following was said: > [their] commitment to providing high-quality drivers that meet the needs of > the mobile Linux community is second to none. > - Matthew Garrett, Ubuntu Mobile Linux Engineer > > I tend to suggest
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To GPL or not to GPL: What Would Dostoevsky Do? "Thou wouldst go into the world, and art going with empty hands, with some promise of freedom which men in their simplicity and their natural unruliness cannot even understand, which they fear and dread- for nothing has ever been more insupportable fo
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While I'm waiting on my brain to cough up the rest of the "Open Source Macro vs. Micro" series, I thought I'd post about the Most. Irritating. Question. Ever: > "OMG! Like, how are Open Source developers gonna get paid???" ...usually asked in some worrisome tone, as if Open Source developers a
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I just got the news of SCO's passing - well, ok filing chapter 11 bankruptcy under the guise of "protect its assets during this time." One can't help but think that they see the writing on the wall and are doing this in anticipation of a slew of lawsuits. A lot of people have lost money on SCO and m
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As I mentioned in my previous post on this topic, Open Source and open technology trends continue to swing in one direction (up and to the right). Along this ever-growing open technology spectrum lie various projects and companies who hope to gain a competitive advantage through some type of open co
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I've had my Canon Powershot A630 for almost a year now, and while mostly satisfied, there were a couple of minor annoyances: 1. the interface was sub-par in comparison to my previous camera, a Fuji Finepix 2. I could grab the raw graphics and had to tr...
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I was reading Stephen Walli's blog [http://stephesblog.blogs.com/], as I often do, and came across one referencing a presentation by Brent Williams [http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/03/the_best_presen.html] on the topic of "Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 an