John Locke was an in-studio guest of Chris and Bryan on the Linux Action Show, Season 10 Episode 2. The conversation centered on how to make an open source business, and went for nearly an hour and a half.
Check out the video recording below.
For audio, go to Jupiter Broadcasting to download the episode.
I consider myself a pretty tech savvy kid, you may even call me a mid-term adopter of all things tech. But there is one project that has offended me more over the past few months that has finally pushed me to post a blog against it.
Ksenia asks, how difficult is it to move all our stuff from Media Temple to SliceHost? I want to be able to make changes on site any time myself.
We have a fundamental problem with the structure of public companies in our business economy. For too long, public companies have been held accountable to one single standard: its stock price.
So one of my biggest issues with using Open Source technologies here at Freelock comes with perhaps the easiest task most business people do on a day to day basis, and that is using a piece of office productivity software and sharing it with someone else.
We get a lot of questions about how to fight spam. For the most part, it's too late when it reaches your email program--but on the mail server, there are several tactics we employ to minimize what reaches your inbox.
On my drive to work, I see businesses up for sale, big stores closing left and right, and people looking for work on the corners.
Dan Knauss of New Local Media wrote up a nice comparison between Word Press, Joomla, and Drupal last summer, which I came across last weekend.
No, it's not a misspelling. Symfony is a framework for rapid development of PHP web applications.
Jim asks:
For a long time, accounting was one of the few missing Linux functions. Not anymore. There are now some top notch accounting solutions, especially for experienced bookkeepers.
We use and host the fantastic LedgerSMB program. This software provides double-entry accounting, includes a Point-Of-Sale module, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, customizable invoices and receipts, and many other features you need in an accounting package. The main things missing are payroll and integration with other business systems.
