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Open Source » Linux Foundation announces end user summit

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The Linux Foundation says it will hold its first End-User Summit on October 13-14. The event will be held at the Desmond Tutu Center, which despite its name is an Aramark joint, recently opened a mile southeast of the Javits Center on the West Side. The target is businesses which are heavy users of Linux and open source in their enterprise ... [Link]

Open Source » Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?

Posted 10 hours ago

Microsoft hasn’t even shipped its Internet Explorer 8 but already some Firefox developers say they have a better privacy solution. Perspectives, hatched at Carnegie Mellon, thwarts so-called “Man in the Middle” attacks on SSH (secure) sites by creating a virtual notary that can check the validity of an unsigned security certificate. I have already been burned by over-zealous security in trying ... [Link]

Open Source » A way to assign copyright globally

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Open source is a global movement in a world without a global law. While a U.S. court has ruled open source licenses are copyright, assuring that in other courts remains a challenge. The challenge only grows when projects extend across borders, with multiple contributors in 10,000 different places. . So the acceptance of something called the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) by ... [Link]

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Open Source » Is LogMeIn the route to laptop Linux?

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While pursuing a Linux laptop for review I happened upon a press agent who pointed me to LogMeIn. This, he said, is what will make laptop Linux a mass market. LogMeIn is a service for reaching another computer, a descendant of LapLink, which I covered two decades ago. The press agent’s idea is you get a Netbook with the simplest possible ... [Link]

Open Source » Open source extremism lives

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What we now call the open source movement started as a reaction to the perceived extremism of folks like Richard Stallman with their demand that everything be free. The liberation of content, and the defiance of the copyright industries, remains a fault line between the open source business world and what you might call open source extremism. Such extremism lives on ... [Link]

Open Source » When is open source just throwing it all away?

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Today ZDNet has yet-another story about microblogging going open source. Andrew Mager has the story of Laconi.ca, which lets you “build your own Twitter” with support for the Open Microblogging protocol. Laconi.ca is not alone. Social bookmarketing site Ma.gnolia is also going open source. It has become a common sight. A market develops. A leader emerges. Then the laggards say “we’re ... [Link]

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Open Source » Which merchants benefit most from open source?

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If you can see yourself doing $5-10,000 in receipts each month you’re a good candidate for an open source ecommerce solution. Michael Valverde, CEO of Chain Reaction Ecommerce, based near downtown Atlanta, said his company is focusing more on community contributions with its latest release, but truly small merchants might want to consider a SaaS solution. “We have 12,000 people on ... [Link]

Open Source » Build your own cloud with open source

Posted 5 days ago

For many corporate researchers, clouds and distributed computing have a big downside. (This cluster, at the University of Texas, is looking for oil reservoirs, naturally.) They’re somewhere else. They’re someone else’s hardware. If you’ve got a big job, with enormous financial implications, you want to run it on your own systems. But how? With open source tools from REvolution Computing. With ... [Link]

Open Source » Seinfeld target is not open source

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I have been reading up on Jerry Seinfeld’s deal with Microsoft and this much seems very clear. Open source is not his target. I don’t even think Apple is his target. These are not product ads we’re talking about, but high-end image makeover ads. I have some small insight into this, having grown up less than a mile from Jerry in ... [Link]

Open Source » AD: Share rich, engaging work anytime, anywhere

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Open Source » Is visibility the key open source value?

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In past discussions about open source values I’ve gone on about many subjects which struck some as political. But is the key open source value something simpler and more basic? Like the mere visibility of the code? Code visibility is the first thing that distinguishes open source from other types of software. As Paul Murphy noted today it’s a game changer. ... [Link]

Open Source » Marketcetera now with real time data

Posted 7 days ago

Marketcetera, the open source trading platform, took a major step forward with the launch of real-time market data from ACTIV Financial. Sure, Marketcetera CEO Graham Miller acknowledged, ACTIV isn’t Bloomberg or Reuters. But guess whose data the boys on the floor are using? “I was one of their first customers at Jane Street Capital. We’ve been big fans of their feeds. ... [Link]

Open Source » The new Intel gets open source mojo with SpikeSource

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The biggest business story of the year may be the transformation of Intel from a tech-driven chipmaker to a marketing-driven products-and-services company. I have talked about this with regard to health care but the transformation is more far-ranging than that. Take the field of software, where Intel is working with SpikeSource to “build a large scaled business around enabling the long ... [Link]

Open Source » AD: Video and TelePresence

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Open Source » Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days

Posted 7 days ago

Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership — strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today — is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent events in the virtualization and document format compatibility fronts, notably Microsoft’s ... [Link]

Open Source » Hyperic gets on Google’s cloud

Posted 7 days ago

Hyperic CloudStatus is now available to users of Google AppEngine cloud. The program was already available to users of Amazon’s Web Services cloud. Hyperic principal engineer Jon Travis said the integration with Google is even “tighter” than with Amazon, but the two clouds serve different customer sets. “The people using AppEngine are developing applications that work with MySpace and use the ... [Link]

Open Source » Third party support, threat or menace?

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Neither. The correct answer is channel. (One third party support company named itself for this, the covalent bonds in chemistry.) Dave Rosenberg of Mulesource is flummoxed about third party support, worried that it’s taking money out of what should be developers’ pockets. Actually, Dave, it’s creating a channel. It’s customers who are reluctant to support third party open source support. I ... [Link]

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