Category: Open Source

Phone Warz: Revenge Of The Palm?

February 2, 2009 15

The New Year’s still in diapers, and already several technology battles are heating up–the most interesting in the smart phone arena. Computing is clearly going mobile, and he who owns the smart phone software market may own the next decade. Think Microsoft dominating the office application space. Ever since I put together [...]

Where Will You Go Next, Big Three?

January 28, 2009 5

I think I need to grow a multi-billion dollar company, only to start mistreating my customers and ignoring them when they complain. Maybe then I can get my hands on some of this bailout money rolling out of Washington like an ocean wave. Out of touch with your customer base? No problem. Not making your [...]

Three Open Source Tricks For Old Media Dogs

December 17, 2008 13

Popular print media outlets are dying. It doesn’t matter if you’re a small town rag or the world’s best-known brand, progress doesn’t discriminate. How bad is it? The New York Times (which owns the Boston Globe and many regional papers) owes $400 million more than it has on hand. Both the Detroit News and the [...]

Free Software Foundation Sues Cisco Systems

December 11, 2008 11

The Free Software Foundation has just announced that it has filed suit against Cisco Systems in the United States District Court (Southern District of New York) for violations of the GPL. Veteran open source lawyer Hank Jones provided me with a copy of the complaint earlier, but it is now available on the FSF web [...]

BusinessWeek: A Call To Open-Source The iPhone

December 10, 2008 0

“Open source is becoming the default way to develop software in many industries. Why? Because a properly-managed, open environment leads to targeted, robust features and helps developers share code in a healthy coop-tition that helps everybody in the iPhone ecosystem.” Read The Article

Five Reasons Apple Should Open The iPhone

December 10, 2008 90

You know, BusinessWeek asked me about Apple potentially open sourcing the iPhone over a year ago. Since then: nothing out of Apple, despite mounting pressure from projects like Android that are vying for Apple’s throne. With Christmas only days away, I’ve only got one thing I want to ask Santa Jobs for, and it ain’t [...]