Maybe it’s a coincidence but this week has seen evidence of tension between commercial open source vendors and elements of the open source user community. Matt Asay stirred up something of a hornet’s nest with his post questioning how open source vendors can find ways of encouraging users to contribute either code of cash in return for free software
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Should You Use Free Software at Work?
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“But it’s free!” I stood in the cube of an engineer on my team as he made his case about a free software tool that would supposedly solve a recurring problem we were having with our network. Sure it didn’t cost any money to purchase the tool, but what about the intangibles?
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TPF receives large donation in support of Perl 6 development
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"On May 14, 2008, The Perl Foundation received a philanthropic donation of US$200,000 from Ian Hague. Mr. Hague is a co-founder of Firebird Management LLC, a financial fund management company based in New York City. This donation was the result of extensive discussions between Mr. Hague, The Perl Foundation and a Perl community member who wishes to remain anonymous..."
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Red Hat defends UK's open source record
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Is the UK really a laggard in open source? Red Hat denies there is any problem. "Red Hat does more business in the UK than in any other European country," Malcolm Herbert, senior manager of consulting practice at Red Hat UK, told ZDNet at the Open Source Forum event. "There's no problem with open source take-up in the UK."
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Novell’s Buybacks Not Enough, Says Analyst
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Yesterday we wrote about Novell’s new buyback program. There are some more reactions to it now. Sarcastically, for example, says the following guy: “Novell finds someone willing to buy $100M worth of its stock.”
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A caution about Drupal as a social software platform
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The open source package Drupal is one of the few social publishing platforms built on top of a longstanding Web CM (WCM) system. It has a strong foundation with a very flexible taxonomy system which -- along with thousands of 3rd-party modules -- enables you to assemble social publishing applications.
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Reflections on Open Source Commerce, Part 1
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It has been more than two years since the Yin and Yang article was published on LinuxPlanet, a long time in the information and communications technology world. The purpose of that article was to highlight the opportunity for greater entrepreneurial focus to gain broad, fast adoption of Linux and open source computing solutions.
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Alfresco Updates its OSS Enterprise Content Manager
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Alfresco Software, maker of popular open source content management software, has announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise 2.2. The new release is designed to let web site managers delve into web 2.0 features and online community building.
Read more »Report: Red Hat, SAS among top tech companies
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Red Hat and SAS are two of the 30 most influential technology companies in the world, according to a report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group.
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Open Source Security Myths Dispelled
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The decision to deploy proprietary, rather than open source security solutions (OSS), is often influenced by some commonly held perceptions. Many IT professionals can’t seem to shake off the belief that OSS is inherently risky unreliable and complex. I am going to examine the most common of these perceptions to highlight how the facts are very often the exact opposite to what people believe.
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North-by-South Announces Close of Investment Round
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In short: there's an incredible free software movement happening in Latin America. To support this movement, North-by-South is a San Francisco-based business whose goal is to give businesses in Silicon Valley access to this pool of talent and to materially support the open source developers in Latin America.
Read more »Novell’s Web Page About Making the Leap to Windows Vista
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Some months ago we highlighted what initially seems like Novell endorsement for Windows Vista. Novell is still quite Windows- and Microsoft-dependent.
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Novell Starts Buying Its Own Stock (Sign of Weakness)
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Novell has just earned itself a very low position (48th) in the “most influential tech vendors” ladder, which seems very gut feeling-driven. Almost on the very same day came this press release from Novell:
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Linspire tightens CNR ties with Mint, Ubuntu
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Linspire, the San Diego, Calif.-based Linux distributor, is continuing to build up its CNR (Click-N-Run) software installation system with partnerships with Ubuntu parent Canonical and the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution. Linspire recently announced that its beta CNR service now supports the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release and Linux Mint versions 4.0 and 5.
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