Another good, brief story shedding insight into the economics of Open Source. It's not just about licensing and deployment costs--it's about investing in your people, which can generate bigger gains down the road. It's not just saving money, it's creating opportunity.
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🕑Aug 08, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Qt, the GPL, Business and Freedom
This essay is from an open source developer, talking about his motivations to write free software. It refers to a bunch of projects that may not mean anything to the general public, but it still provides insight into some of the key motivations. Hint: it's not to make money...
🕑Jul 30, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Open Source Medical Records
Putting together a proposal for a potential client, we've unearthed a couple of cool Electronic Medical Record (EMR) applications.
🕑Jul 27, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Security Bulletins, computers, and cars
It's been a bad week for computer security. Basically, if you use the Internet and have a computer, it needs updating. Even Mac and Linux users are affected.
First off, Windows. For those of you trying to limp along with Windows 98, ME, or NT, I'm sorry to say we've reached the end of the line. Microsoft has announced that they do not plan to release a fix for these operating systems, for the critical vulnerability revealed earlier this week. If you use any Windows 98 or ME machines to browse the Internet, you're vulnerable, and the only thing you can do is update to a newer operating system.
🕑Jul 24, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Calculating the True Price of Software
Interesting analysis of the cost of software, applying the pricing model for financial instruments such as options and calls to support contracts: ONLamp.com: Calculating the True Price of Software.
🕑Jul 23, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
Found a great little how-to for using Rsync to create multiple snapshot backups, with full explanations: Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync.
🕑Jul 16, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster
The New York Times has a story about people throwing away their PCs because the cost of cleaning out the viruses and spyware costs more than a new computer.Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the D
🕑Jul 10, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Data Theft: How to Fix the Mess
The New York Times has an interesting editorial running today by Joseph Nocera, about solving the identity theft problem.
🕑Jul 10, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Contrasting views on "Intellectual Property"
Today, there's a review in the New York Times about Hot Property, a new book by Pat Choate that essentially claims the US is in technology decline because of "piracy."
From the article:
🕑Jul 05, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Hardware hacking an Internet phone
We're looking to set up an office phone line using Asterisk at Home. The latest version has added a custom SugarCRM package, allowing you to have Sugar dial out for you. Very cool feature.
🕑Jul 05, 2005 🖋John Locke
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A secure email archive
For those who need to keep an archive of every sent or received in an organization, here's a brief story about how to create one securely and automatically.
🕑Jul 01, 2005 🖋John Locke
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Great innovation quote
"Freedom is the oxygen of innovation, not its enemy." - Eric S. Raymond, the person who coined the term Open Source.
He's interviewed here: ONLamp.com: ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore".