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Windows Defragmenter: Not Good Enough
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Why some open source crosses the chasm and some falls in
Important examples are to be found in the world of open source. Linux crossed the chasm on servers. It failed to do so on desktops. Yet Android, a Google-developed Linux distro, seems fated to...
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Google and Sun differences are more than source deep
Matt Asay suggests that Google and Sun made the same bets on the future, and so far only Google has won. I would like to respectfully disagree. Not just that they made the same bet. But that...
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Will customers demand open clouds?
Until open source advocates agree on what open means in terms of the cloud, clouds will evolve in ways that give lip service to open as an ideal, but still enforce vendor lock-in.
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Matt Asay's big break is a big one for open source
Ubuntu is a wonderful dream, but a prosaic reality. It sells itself as the shining city on the hill, when it's really just a small attractive village. Matt Asay can change that.
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Google and open source, who needs who more?
It may just be that Google has grown up beyond open source. It's like the tiger raised by a dog. It needs to be on its own, both for its own sake and the dog's sake.
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SAP and open source: it's about Oracle
Matt Asay has written a piece about SAP's 'sudden' love affair with open source: What is surprising is that it is SAP, the bastion of proprietary software, that delivers this message. Irony, thy...
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Qualcomm joins open source movement at head of parade
Combining open source and proprietary technology in the way Qualcomm wants to do, while legitimate, does threaten to maintain the vendor lock-in that open source is meant to fight. Just because...
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Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?
Will we ever see Microsoft as meaning anything but Astroturf in open source? Or to quote the philosopher Joe Wilson, you lie.
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Why open source remains an ideological divide
I say stand proudly with your friends or you get run over. Be open source, recognize the difference between that and the proprietary model, and go forward. If they want to give you the black hat...
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Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline
If you truly want individual contributions, your best chance of getting them comes if you and they are on the same legal footing, and the same practical footing, regarding the code base. You want...
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With clouds license arguments become fog
What we're entering, in license terms, is not a cloud era but a fog era. Clouds and fog are the same thing. The difference between them is in the eye of the beholder. If you can see clearly...
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At what stage of life is the open source industry?
Every industry goes through life stages, just like people. At what stage is open source at, now, in the middle of 2009?
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What does open source community mean?
Those open source businesses which remain true to their community ideals through this recession are going to come out stronger for it. If the companies don't come out despite high ideals, then...
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Net access no fundamental right
News.com's Matt Asay finds much to mock in European Commission head Viviane Reding's argument that Internet access is a human right (quoting Matt here: "Microsoft Word document, which is really...
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Nagios fork warning to Oracle
As Oracle prepares to take possession of open source projects like OpenOffice, Java and mySQL, the Nagios fork is a warning that open source code can't be suppressed.
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IBM, Microsoft and open source citizenship
For IBM, software is a shared store from which it benefits, and to which it contributes. The company has built an arms-length relationship with the whole process of improving code.
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How Dell can win in mobility
What made Dell famous was mass customization. Back in the day when PCs had a wide variety of options and price points Dell made money by selling direct and producing on demand. Maybe it's time we...
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EMC gets open source mojo cheap
These are "Mr. Potter" days in the tech business. He who has the gold makes the rules. We dance to the tune of cash. While open source is based on principle, the principals can't live on that alone.
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Has Internet Explorer ever been safe?
Well yes, but not strictly for the reasons people think. It was once safe back in the day where there were little vulnerabilities to play havoc with the software; back in a time where Internet...
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Metrics of open source success
There is such a thing as enough money. And there are other drives, equally vital, that open source can satisfy. Some are drives felt keenly by people with lots of money, while with others money...
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