According to market research, open-source developers rate software quality for their tools more harshly than do developers who specialize in proprietary solutions. Esther Schindler contemplates possible explanations.
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"Free" and "Open Source" Software: Navigating the Shibboleths
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To outsiders, software whose source code is freely distributable is open source software. However, as soon as you become involved with the community that centers around such code, you quickly find that it is also called free software -- and that the two terms are far from synonymous. Which term you choose to use can quickly associate you with a whole spectrum of political and philosophical beliefs, and can make the difference between receiving cooperation and being ostracized. As a newcomer, you might easily imagine that you have stumbled out of the woods and into the target end of a rifle range, all because of your innocent choice of jargon.
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Richard Stallman Explains Software Patents (Video)
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Richard Stallman’s talk about software patents, which has just been uploaded to YouTube.
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Is FOSS heading for an identity crisis?
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In his recent Forbes article Cash Me Out (by way of The Register’s Open Season) Dan Lyons likens the assimilation of open source into the mainstream IT industry to the incorporation of gay culture into mainstream culture.
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The world according to Monsanto
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"A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the credibility of US based Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and the provider of the seed technology for 90 percent of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops -- The French documentary, called “The world according to Monsanto” and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals..." -- French reports by Tristan Nitot (Standblog): http://standblog.org/blog/post/2008/03/12/Le-monde-selon-Monsanto
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The REAL reason we use Linux
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We tell people we use Linux because it's secure. Or because it's free, because it's customizable, because it's free (the other meaning), because it has excellent community support... But all of that is just marketing bulls[p]it.
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Linux and Tom Sawyer
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There’s one big factor in why Linux isn’t popular on the desktop. Linux is free. I know this sounds like complete dog’s bollocks, but hear me out before judging my sanity. We can all remember the story of Tom Sawyer. At one point, Tom had to whitewash a fence. When one of his friends happened along, Tom tried to persuade and bribe the friend to help him. Needless to say, it didn’t work...
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Do you need an anti-virus even with Linux?
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Once Linux gets enough market share for it to make sense for hackers to start hitting Linux hard, then viruses attempts will start coming. We must remember that where there’s a will there’s a way and that way will probably be found. Viruses, spy-ware, rootkits, etc are big money and people will do anything for that money.
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Red Hat CEO: America's unpopularity "a huge benefit to open source"
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"I never thought I would say this but actually, being very unpopular in the world, as frankly the U.S. is these days, is a huge benefit to open source," because people are resentful of sending billions of dollars back to the U.S. in IP taxes, [Red Hat CEO Jim] Whitehurst said. This article also includes an interesting aside about GPL violations.
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Why this name "Squaring the net" ?
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"We believe that the promoters of the projects we are opposing are trying to solve a problem similar to squaring the circle. They did not understand that we changed era, that some approaches are outdated, that we must collectively rethink our approach to the control of information. [...] The question now is how many centuries it will be necessary for the law makers to return to reason?
Read more »Moving to Windows
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Yes, that's right. I'm moving from Linux to Windows. Some of you may wonder what prompted this seismic shift and you deserve an explanation. Last night I had a dream and in it, a Windows butterfly just kept fluttering around this little pudgy penguin's head. Try as he might, the penguin couldn't swat the butterfly away.
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Five principles for successful mass collaboration, part 1
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Linux has succeeded as a product only because the community that supports it has organised itself systematically to create, share, test, reject, and develop ideas in a way that flouts conventional wisdom. Successful We-Think projects are based on five key principles that were all present in Linux. Here are the first two.
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Five principles for successful mass collaboration, part 2
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Linux has succeeded as a product only because the community that supports it has organised itself systematically to create, share, test, reject, and develop ideas in a way that flouts conventional wisdom. Successful We-Think projects are based on five key principles that were all present in Linux. Yesterday I talked about Core and Contribute. Today, it's Connect.
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If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it
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When Jason Perlow reported on last week’s Microsoft Technology Summit, he sought to compliment the company by giving CEO Steve Ballmer a Gorbachev-like birthmark (right).
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What to expect from a world social forum on Science and Democracy ? -- Annick Jacq -- (en -- 26/03/2008)
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"What to expect from a world social forum on Science and Democracy ?
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