Now Hiring: Product Manager
Pin ItWe are now hiring a product manager. You can check out the job description on our website. We are looking for someone who is passionate about helping enterprises use open source software!
Read More »I Love MacFUSE
Pin It MacFUSE is one of those packages I always knew I needed but didn't know it existed or even what to call it. MacFUSE lets Mac OS X treat a remote ssh accessible server as a mounted disk resource. Upshot: I can use any of my Mac OS X tools directly on a file [...]
Read More »Risk Factors You Ought To See for Proprietary Software
Pin ItI’ll start off with the traditional “I am not a lawyer” disclaimer. I just read Computerworld’s article about McAfee’s statement that open source licenses are a “risk factor” for their business. Jeez. Who would have thought that a company that makes their livelihood off of fighting viruses (mostly in proprietary closed source software) would [...]
Read More »Support: A Business Model that IS Working
Pin It I recently read a blog post by Savio Rodrigues in Infoworld that started off with the premise that “Cash is Still King”. That’s a pretty hard statement to disagree with. The post, however, went on to talk about which open source business models would or wouldn’t be successful. This is where I think [...]
Read More »Why did Bill Gates’ keynote suck?
Pin ItI've heard from many sources that Bill Gates' keynote at CES wasn't all that good. One opinion is that is was bad for lack of content. From The Truth That Dare Not Speak: The CES Keynote Sucked: The big question is how, in 2008, have we come to a point that Microsoft is so [...]
Read More »Facebook up for murder charges?
Pin ItWhen you enter information into your Facebook profile, does it belong to you, to Facebook or to the people you share it with? Right now there's an interesting debate going on in the websphere: Robert Scoble used a script to get all of his Facebook friends' information. Since that's against the Facebook terms and [...]
Read More »Long Live Closed Source Software?
Pin ItThere's an interesting article on the Discover magazine website called "Long Live Closed-Source Software" written by Jaron Lanier. Jaron is a colleague of Richard Stallman though they are philosophically opposed. A quick summary of his thesis is that though the trendy thinking in synthetic biology includes incorporating the worldwide collaboration ideas (aka web 2.0 [...]
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