When open source is not enough
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The case for open development There was some interesting buzz about the state of open source going around ApacheCon in Dublin.â¦
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It seems that the proprietary world is doing just fine in the face of open source.  But for how long?
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Ziff Davis - Microsoft is reaching out further to the open-source community with offers of joint development and testing, but some wonder about the company's sincerity.
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Blog: Open source is not up to each individual to define.  It's up to the community, and the community has traditionally delivered its verdict on licenses through the OSI.  CentricCRM has given no good reasons for this to change.
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How far is too far when it comes to the freedom of software? Plus: Palm slipping, Windows sliding.
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There's a lot of money to be made in open source, both as a shareholder and for the company.
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I have an observation I'd like to disclose about the Open Source community: we tend to leap into all kinds of things before we have all the facts and/or information necessary to make intelligent decisions. We criticize other communities, laugh at things like directory services from the two major NOS players, talk about all our great applications, etc. we hang on to old notions about a what makes Linux tick. Sorry, but that model Eric doesn't fit any more. The community natter appears to come mostly from people who lack deep technical skills and knowledge of enterprises.
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Following up on the success of the Firefox open source Web browser, released by the Mozilla Foundation last fall, open source software developers are readying some new products aimed at a consumer market still dominated by proprietary software.
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JavaScript development goes to the dogs What you can - and cannot do - with your software is often determined by the code owner's license. From not using open source APIs with closed-source digital rights management (DRM) to being barred from fiddling with Windows source code, we've seen it all.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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PHP Magazine has a new posting this morning showing ythat yet another story that vindicates the growing popularity of LAMP-based products to cut down costs and provide effective solutions, Bill Welty, the CIO of California's Air Resources Board (ARB) writes about how the usage of open source products helped reduce their cost estimates from six-hundred to fifty-nine (yes, fifty nine dollahs) and that too, with no ongoing requirement for annual maintenance costs.
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An Indian Institute of Technology professor--and open-source evangelist--discusses the role of Linux and open source in India. By Larry Greenemeier.
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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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Is open source becoming the dumping ground for no-longer-wanted software, sort of like a Salvation Army dropoff point for programs instead of old clothes?
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The fork occupies an ambivalent place in the world of open source.  On the one hand, it is widely perceived as the worst thing that can happen to a project, pitting hacker against hacker, and dissipating coding effort that could be more usefully applied in a united way.  On the other, it is the ultimate test and guarantee of openness: if code cannot be forked, it is not truly open. read more
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It's not so much that there aren't workable business models around Open Source. But life is so much easier when those models can include pieces that people have to pay for as well.
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Open source is wonderful. Everything is so open, warts and all. Roshan Naik complains about the state of PHP:
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more