Open Source

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:42 pm

M$ embracing Open Source?

http://redmondmag.com/features/article. ... ialsid=688

Honestly, if they developed a GUI for Linux I think they would have a viable product on their hands. They invaded consoles, handhelds, mp3 players, phones, etc.

.............why not just try and win over the competitors' market?

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:46 am

Open source business plan:

http://weblog.infoworld.com/geeks/archi ... ss_ca.html

Why go open source for business? Software audits are just one of the reasons.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:37 pm

Has open source jumped the shark?

http://jeffgould.findtechblogs.com/defa ... tem=584371

Tempus · Post by **Tempus** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:14 pm

interesting blog... somewhat thought provoking but not at all surprising
Especially coming from IBM... they are still grasping at straws after they totally botched their strange hold on the computer market in the late 80s/early 90s

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:40 pm

ATI might open source their drivers?

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=288

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:54 pm

Mark Driver of Gartner really understands OSS:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/0 ... dable.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:56 pm

First lawsuit against people not providing open source code to meet their GPL requirements:

http://open.itworld.com/4914/070921open ... age_1.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:26 pm

First lawsuit settled quickly and out of court:

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3761924232.html

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:51 am

Steve Wozniak of Apple hates Open Source:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... open-sauce

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9785353-16.html

Now, this coming from someone else, say at M$, would be completely acceptable. They each have differences in software ideals--so be it.

But when you're company is making pretty much its entire basis off open source, like this:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/

.......and they openly admit it, it seems a little bit hypocritical to me.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:23 pm

Maybe the two parties haven't resolved their open source spat?

http://www.linux.com/feature/119439

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:59 am

Why aren't more things open source?

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.c ... hp/3696296

Embarassment over their code?

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:43 am

asus EE not meeting its open source obligations?

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9759

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:52 pm

Sony may need to release the code to their game ICO as they used GPL'd code without giving credit:

http://astrange.ithinksw.net/ico/

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:26 am

Open source contains just as many bugs as commercial software:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/205602186

The difference? The speed at which those bugs get fixed.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:49 am

Open source vulnerabilities:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080123/tc ... sOjkQjtBAF

Though, the article has been updated with links to patches to fix the problem. So are they even vulnerabilities anymore?