Some time ago, I mentioned that I love MacFUSE which lets you access remote systems over secure shell as if they are local disk drives on your Mac. MacFUSE is a Google Code project under the new BSD license. I just upgraded my VMWare Fusion to 2.0 and one of the things they bundled with [...]
Read More »Matt Asay points out that it takes time and work to contribute to an open source software project. What suprised me was that he seems upset (or perhaps disappointed) that it's so hard for an outside person to contribute to an open source software project. First off, it's not hard to contribute small things. Small [...]
Read More »The OpenLogic Expert Community (OXC) is a growing community of open source committers, contributors and experts who help us in supporting over 400 open source projects. The community is open to people who have the passion, time, and knowledge to help solve technical issues on any of the open source products in our library. Are [...]
Read More »I was reading Simon Phipps' recent blog on the funding of open source. In it, he talks about how open source communities work. …there is no fiscal power that any contributor holds over others, so no-one has the right to tell the others what to do. An open source community is an example of a [...]
Read More »Our last webinar, A Comparison of Open Source Reporting Tools for the Enterprise, drew a huge amount of interest, so we decided to continue the trend with another technical webinar: A Comparison of Open Source Scripting Languages for the JVM presented by Rod Cope, CTO and Founder of OpenLogic. This webinar will be held on [...]
Read More »[From the Open Source Census August newsletter.] In the previous newsletter we looked at the breakdown of Linux Distributions. Many people have since asked us how open source software compares across different operating systems like Linux, Windows, and Mac, so we decided to take a look at the average number of open source packages found by [...]
Read More »I was recently asked to evaluate virtual whiteboard solutions for a client and had the opportunity to look at the state of open source whiteboards. With one exception, it wasn’t a pretty scene. By OpenLogic certification standards, nearly every open source whiteboard would have failed due to lack of activity, lack of community support and [...]
Read More »I uploaded some of the Open Source Census data into Many Eyes and I've been having great fun playing with the data. (You can play with it yourself.) Here are some of the visualizations I've created: Word map: Bubble map:
Read More »At OpenLogic, we've recently been talking to various venture capital firms about our business model. These discussions have been interesting because OpenLogic's pioneering business model doesn't match that of the "typical" commercial open source vendor. As we've been thinking about how to best communicate our business model as an open source aggregator, I have noticed that [...]
Read More »I burned an Ubuntu Hardy live cd with Brasero (the GNOME default burning utility) the other day and it had problems booting. Kept getting some error about SQUASHFS over and over again and never go to the login screen. After seeing some hints about a bad burn and some unconfirmed discussion about TAO versus DAO, [...]
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