Barack Obama is the Google of modern American politics. MyBarackObama and Google share strengths and, perhaps, weaknesses. I just described Google’s problem with the ASP loophole. By supporting the loophole Google maintains its proprietary advantage but risks losing friends in the open source community. …
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Google’s open source problem is Affero
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2408The best open source protection for “the cloud,” as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic’s GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero closes the “ASP loophole” described by Fabrizio Capobianco here in March. It defines what SaaS delivers as software and requires code sharing. …
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Sun xVM Virtualbox puts Mac on x86
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2406The newest version of Sun’s xVM Virtualbox adds support for Apple’s OSX. (Mac ad satire from Jazebski.Pl in Poland.) The new version is dubbed Version 2.6 and was released during last week’s CommunityDays event. …
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ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals
http://talkback.zdnet.comGoogle's open source problem is Affero The best open source protection for "the cloud," as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic's GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero ... Tags: ClipperZ
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Unleashing Ideas
http://unleashingideas.org/blogThe following is from an article on ZDnet by Dana Blakenhorn. In it he argues that an entrepreneur is not a hero; he is a professional. I’d like to agree— entrepreneurs aren’t heroes in so much as our heroes are idols. The thing about being an idol is that you conceptually aren
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LA IDEOLOGÍA Y LA BILLETERA
http://jomaweb.blogalia.com//historias/57289derechas, o de lo que sea, hasta que nos tocan la billetera. Lo cual es una forma de decir, como bien saben los economistas, que la mejor forma de conocer a un hombre, no es hablando con él ni oyéndole hablar, sino viendo en qué gasta su dinero. Sun cierra MySQL
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marketuupl.discountgoods.mine.nu » Earn Money Part Time
http://marketuupl.discountgoods.mine.nu/earn-money-part-time...Sun?s continuing open source problem- ZDNet Blogs
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There’s more to Linux than support
http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/05/09/theres-more-to-linux-t...this post by Paula Rooney
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LXer: Open source as the villain in its own story
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=640...Published at LXer: Maybe because of JavaOne and Sun’s well-known concerns about open source profit the idea of proprietary hooks which make people pay for open source software is big again. Read More...
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JavaOne: The week in video
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8768Sun’s continuing open source problem JavaFX’s day in the Sun Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up Commercial OpenSolaris ships News.com: Sun heading into the cloud News.com: JavaOne ‘08: Sun starts delivering And the week in video: Read the rest of this entry »
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Links 08/05/2008: More GNU/Linux PDAs, Microsoft Covets Facebook
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-covets-faceboo...Xubuntu: Better than Ubuntu (at least for me) Thoughts on Linux/Ubuntu Slackware 12.1: Do-it-yourself-NUX Shuttle KPC K4500 Compact PC - PC World SourceForge Implements OpenID Technology Sun Microsystems Joins Liferay Open Source Community Sun’s continuing open source problem On MySQL’s About-Face: It’s About Expectations Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and New Sun GlassFish Communications Server Digium(R) Expands Commitment to AstriCon, the Premier Open
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Links 08/05/2008: More GNU/Linux PDAs, Microsoft Covets Facebook
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-covets-faceboo...An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community Running Only on Open-Source Software Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron nests at Fox News What is Free Software and how to make money with it Closing an open-source deal through your systems integrator Open source as the villain in its own story SA’s open source acceleration IBM Fuels New Blue Biz Initiative With Linux Microsoft pokes Facebook Chief RIAA Litigator Named Colorado Judge — UPDATE DRM and unintended consequences The computer security paradox
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Home - Eau Claire Linux User Group
http://eclug.homelinux.orgOpen-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its database. more... and Sun debuts MySQL 5.1 with no licensing change. Atheros hires ath5k developer. Good news. I write to you to inform you that I have decided to join Atheros as a full time employee, as a Software Engineer, to help them with their goals and mission to get every device of Atheros supported upstream in
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