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Why Preventing Fragmentation Is Good for Your Budget
Anything that slows down data subtracts from your bottom line. Instead of using two-decades-old technology to defrag after the fact, why not use higher level technology from Diskeeper that...
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Bruce Perens gives doctors a present
Perens' simple standards can do a lot to herd those cats. Like most great inventors he cuts through the complexity to simple ideas, simple goals you either meet or don't if you want to claim...
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Perens new crusade is patent law
Can we have a system which protects medical inventions while discouraging patent trolls, and what would it look like?
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Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?
The Perens campaign is about serious issues, the most important being the continuing tension between the needs of vendors and free software advocates. Those tensions have never been entirely put...
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The open-source patent conundrum
Commentary--Patent rights are being granted to open-source developers. But are the grants really the equivalent of wolves in sheep's clothing?
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Open source: Prepare for attack
Bruce Perens predicts the open-source software movement will soon be under widespread legal attack by proprietary software vendors.
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Is SCO's case crumbling?
SCO will need more than fancy footwork to pull off its argument in the Linux code dispute.
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Postcard from Penguin Land, Part 1
One of the first things I learned at LinuxWorld upon arriving at the show in New York City's Javits Convention Center is that next year's show is taking place in Boston. Suggesting that some...
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Microsoft's spreading FUD over Linux
Fear, uncertainty, doubt. There's an SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince people that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux.
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Beware of the Internet toll booth
Open-source advocate applauds a W3C vote in a controversial patent dispute, but warns corporations are still trying to set up a toll booth on the Internet.
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RealNetworks: Baby steps toward freedom
At last! Although the code being released does not include RealNetworks' "crown jewels"--the move is still a first step and a significant contribution to open source.
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The Microsoft penalty that isn't
Although Microsoft's compromise with the U.S. Department of Justice is crafted to seem that a competitor could enter, it still leaves Microsoft owning the whole pie.
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Open source advocate says, "We're better at security"
Bruce Perens, long a force in the open source community, says the open source model is better for finding security flaws, but a more formal process could be even better.
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Deciphering the war on open source
Microsoft's Craig Mundie is at it again with his latest critical statements against general public license advocates. It's all part of a familiar strategy--only now the stakes for both sides are...
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Dimitry Sklyarov: Enemy or friend?
E-book publishers might think of jailed Russian cryptanalyst Dimitry Sklyarov as their worst enemy... until they see his slide show, says open source activist Bruce Perens.
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Beware of wolves in agnostic's clothing
Being an open source proponent is more fun than ever, says free software guru Bruce Perens. The best open source publicity stems from Microsoft's attempts to discredit it and its efforts.
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Beware of wolves in agnostic's clothing
There's no publicity as good as an attack from Microsoft.
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Open-source backers: No fear
Why open-source developers aren't afraid of the big, bad corporation.
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Salesforce hires Bruce Richardson - this is a big deal
Bruce Richardson joins Salesforce,com - this is a big deal by any standards
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9 in 10 see cloud as opportunity, not threat
A survey of supposedly conservative IT decision makers has found that 9 in every 10 see cloud as an opportunity to reduce costs and smooth operational performance rather than a threat to security...
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Medal of Honor game banned from U.S. military bases and why that might be strategically unsound
It's a game. Our troops know it's a game.
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