Category: Open Source

Three Reasons Open Source Will Save The Economy

December 3, 2008 30

Hey, is your economy down? All right, bad joke, but it is the country’s current collective bellyache. 760,000 jobs lost already this year according to the Bureau of Labor. Businesses are frantically jettisoning people-weight just to stay afloat. Times are tougher than Chuck Liddell. I think I saw my old CEO in line at the soup [...]

Boy Scouts look to open-source community

June 9, 2008 2

“If you say the Boy Scouts want to use open-source to save the organization money, which is why a lot of people use open source, that’s awesome. The Boy Scouts should say that open source is the perfect tool to teach Boy Scouts … the value of collaboration.” Read the artice

340lb Open Source BattleBot Malfunctions

March 12, 2008 1

This weekend BarCampAustin3 (held during SxSW) featured a ton of amazing things including some fantastic sessions, a mini iPhoneDevCamp, and a singing Unicorn at Karaoke Apocalypse. All went well save one small incident involving a 340lb BattleBot malfunctioning and then taking off as fast as it could for the closest Microsoft employees (including

I Just Got Grilled By ComputerWorld!

February 1, 2008 0

Several people asked me to post something about it but as most of you know I haven’t been doing to well with the whole ‘blogging’ thing lately. So, here’s my mediocre attempt to share. If you want to read the entire story, it’s available online but here’s the basic overview: At 36 years old, William Hurley [...]

Linux World Names 2008’s Top Leaders in Open Source Business

January 29, 2008 0

Today I received a ton of email and IM messages related to LinuxWorld naming me as one of 2008’s Top Leaders in Open Source Business. BMC is one of the world’s largest software companies with a market cap over $6 billion and revenues in excess of $1.58 billion (for previous four fiscal quarters ending March 2007). [...]

BusinessWeek: Will Apple Open the iPhone?

October 16, 2007 0

“It’s clear what the user community wants,” Hurley says. “They’re not hacking around with it for fun as much as they are because they want other features on the iPhone.” Read the article