Pin ItJust following up on the post about how Trent Reznor's Open Source-style music made $750,000 in a few days… Those figures were for the premium edition only. Some new numbers have been released, and Nine Inch Nails has made $1.6 million off the freely available album. It's also worth mentioning the Trent lambasted Radiohead [...]
Read More »Pin ItBack in 2006, Tim O'Reilly announced that "Open source licenses are obsolete." His point was that Web 2.0 applications and software as a service models don't distribute software so they don't trigger the distribution clause. No longer. The Affero General Public License plugs that hole and makes open source licensing relevant again in the [...]
Read More »Pin It Glyn Moody wrote an interesting article for the Guardian earlier this month titled “Why falling Flash prices threaten Microsoft.” It got me thinking about commoditization; specifically pondering the question: Is Linux driving the O/S towards commoditization as many would have us believe? The key point of Mr. Moody’s article is that several converging [...]
Read More »Pin It Now that I have received some feedback, I need to clarify a few points about the credit program. First, I am not making a judgment about the usability of the proprietary software. It may be better for you, it may run faster, jump farther, be the package you know, etc. The judgment [...]
Read More »Pin ItFor those of you interested in my "What is a community manager?" talk, Zak Greant did an awesome job of taking notes during my SCALE talk. Thanks, Zak!
Read More »Pin ItIn the very same open source philosophy that led to Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor releasing his latest album, Ghosts, on bittorrent with a Creative Commons license, Trent has now teamed up with Web 2.0 favorite YouTube to host a film festival surrounding the new album. Trent explains the film festival here: The [...]
Read More »Pin ItIn my blog reader, one right after the other: EU "Will Prefer Open Source Software" by Glyn Moody which pointed to EU: European Commission to increase its use of Open Source. US Navy's new policy: Only open source by Matt Asay which pointed to Navy to focus only on open systems. Interestingly enough neither [...]
Read More »Pin ItCopying Sandro Groganz, I thought I'd tell people that I'll be at OSBC in San Francisco from March 24-26. If you are in my Dopplr network, you know that already, but if not I'd love the chance to meet people in person so that I can associate faces and voices with all those emails [...]
Read More »Pin It I was driving to work the other day, listening to talk radio. They were discussing the Democratic National Convention and how it was “going green”. This intrigued me, and I went to take a look. At the site, there was a Carbon Calculator, where a traveler to the convention could get an estimate [...]
Read More »Pin ItWhen I teach open source software policy classes, one of the first things I say is that open source software is different because the acquisition of open source bypasses procurement. Companies are all set up for software to come in through procurement: the finance department gets involved, the license gets reviewed by legal, the [...]
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