Opinion: Mixing open- and closed-source, managing risk
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Talk about the worst of both worlds: When Jon Espenschied tried to untangle a malware attack on his dual-boot system, he found out just how vulnerable combining open- and closed-source software can leave a machine.
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'Open source' means lots of people and resources can help, but here's a reference for both beginners and the experienced.
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Now for some real Apache code Column As I write this, I'm on the Eurostar train, just returning from O'Reilly's OSCon (Open Source Conference) in Brussels. Some fascinating insights there; and even my own talk generated some interesting discussion. Some of the delegates, including O'Reilly himself, are promoting opensource ideas going beyond software and into society more generally. I've touched on that in this very column before now, but a related argument that's new to me is that the open/closed debate in software could become largely sidelined, as the industry focuses on software as a service (such as Google's offerings) more than as a product.â¦
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Open source is increasingly meaningless if the data it manages isn't open, too.  Should the Open Source Definition be expanded to include data provisions?
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Ziff Davis - Linux and open source are at the heart of today's computing technology. Deal with it.
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Is there something new that open source development methods and values can bring to the economy? How about something old?  I think the answer may come from the developing world, where pre-industrial methods and values persist and offer some helpful models and lessons for a networked world that's less post-industrial than industrial in a new and less impersonal way. This began to become apparent to me a few years ago I had a Socratic exchange with a Nigerian pastor named Sayo, whom I was lucky to find sitting next to me on a long airplane trip.
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More and more companies that in the past might have been wary of open-source alternatives to commercial software are rethinking their stance and are now more receptive to the idea, according to panelists at an SDForum conference.
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New line of attack? Security professionals warned developers on Thursday that they need to be aware that their open-source repositories can now be easily mined, allowing attackers to target programs that are likely to be flawed. While Google could previously be used to look for specific strings, now the search engine riffles through code that much better.â¦
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Blog: It's true that open source applications and infrastructure don't necessarily play well together today, as Microsoft suggests.  But it's also true that more than enough integration is in place for current market demand.
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Even as such open source software developers as Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and OpenOffice.org wax enthusiastic concerning enterprise deployments of their respective Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Office alternatives, industry analysts are urging caution.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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TechWeb - Open source projects can flounder without strong leadership. JBoss' new team must keep that from happening.
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Letter Can collective database licensing cure this tragedy of the commons?
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: Open-source software development may not be easy, and no one likes to air their dirty laundry, but in the end, it's the smartest way to make software.
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With its open-source model, the company has the potential to shake up the industry, one analyst says.
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People are people, sang Depeche Mode.  But people adopt open source in very different ways, as I've seen at Alfresco.
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Open source is wonderful. Everything is so open, warts and all. Roshan Naik complains about the state of PHP: