Last week at OSBC, OpenLogic hosted a panel of open source end users on the topic of Risks and Rewards: How Enterprises are Adopting and Managing Open Source. Stormy Peters moderated the session where enterprise visionaries shared advice on creating open source policies and managing open source risks. Their universal advice is that enterprises should [...]
Read More »The question I am trying to answer is "if someone does something because they love it, you start paying them to do what they love, will they stop doing it when you stop paying them?" It looks like Timothy Ferriss would say yes. For those of you that don't know him, Timothy Ferriss is the [...]
Read More »I’ve never used a gun before, but I’m told that the first rule of gun safety is to never point a loaded gun at anyone. This “safety rule” came to mind recently as I watched the fallout from Microsoft’s claim in Roger Parloff's Fortune article that they hold 235 patents that are violated by Linux [...]
Read More »I read William Hurley's post on giving back to the open source community. He makes a good point. There are too many entities taking advantage of open source technology without giving back. Some are literally pillaging the community that butters their bread. How long before we all suffer the effects? If major project contributors [...]
Read More »Developers that work on open source software typically have day jobs that pay pretty well. So they work on open source software for free and write code during the day for big bucks. So if they are offered money for their time, do they weigh it against the $0/hour they make writing open source software [...]
Read More »For those of you who travel too much … I'd like to introduce you to FlightMemory – it allows you to track all your trips and tells you total hours in the air, top airport, shows you a map of all your flights, etc. Now you can really show your friends and family how much [...]
Read More »Given all the interest in wind energy these days, and the fact that I live in a very windy area, I decided to start measuring wind speed and direction. I found some inexpensive, robust wind instruments, a cheap AVR microcontroller, and set out to build the firmware using an open source C compiler, WinAVR, based [...]
Read More »I've heard lots of people say that you value things more if you pay for them. I think that's changing for internet technologies and open source software. I can see how you would value something traditional more if you pay for it – instead of being free and therefore worth nothing and easily replaceable, it's [...]
Read More »Background In this article, I'm going to take you on a quick tour for configuring virtual hosts on apache, but then leave you with the one tip that glues it all together. Normally if you're hosting a web site on Linux/Apache, your ISP is handling all this for you, but if you're like me and [...]
Read More »Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, talked about how freedom leads to success. He's referring to freedom as opportunity – so eBay brings freedom to trade – anybody can trade with anyone. I didn't get some of his examples like how IKEA brings freedom to furnishings. New style, sure. Freedom? He made a lot of quick [...]
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