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May 26th, 2010 
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People love good analogies, especially if they have a bit of humor about them. Such is the zombies are open source, humans are proprietary analogy Amy Vernon wrote about on NetworkWorld a few weeks ago. Speaking of zombies, old stories are never truly dead.
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Zombies, Open Source, and Bad Analogies
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Tags: analogy, because-the-way, between-the-two, code, george-romero, humans, like-the-undead, Network, released-today, social, vernon, zombie, zombie-poster, zombies 
No Comments » April 28th, 2010 Admin
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Andy Updegrove may have cracked the code on Oracle’s seemingly insane decision to start charging $90 for the formerly free ODF plugin for Microsoft Office.
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Understanding Oracle’s ODF Plug-in Pricing: What it Means for OpenOffice.org
Posted in Open Source News Tags: Beauty, code, doling-out-very, end-item, odf, office, OpenOffice.org, sun, User, whatever-oracle No Comments » April 14th, 2010 Admin
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The 4th Annual Linux Collaboration Summit got underway today and if you can’t be there, you can catch all the opening day keynotes and panel discussions on live video stream for free. All you need to do is register for a free Linux Foundation account and you’re good to go. Today’s events include: Keynote: Welcome and State of the Linux Union Jim Zemlin , Executive Director at The Linux Foundation Panel: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud?
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Watch Live Feeds From Linux Collab Summit for Free
Posted in Open Source News Tags: Business, code, collaboration, contest-videos, director, events, james-bottomley, launches-free, Life, platforms, source, ubuntu, webinar-series No Comments » March 24th, 2010 Admin
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Nexuiz is sort of a poster child open source project, an example of a high-quality game that’s developed by the open source community. Unfortunately, it may also be a poster child of how things can quickly go wrong once commercial interests are involved and when it’s unclear who controls a project. Phoronix is reporting that Nexuiz has forked into Xonotic because the founder of the project has entered a deal to allow proprietary use of the game name and code for a proprietary project.
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Nexuiz Forks: Another Example of Single Ownership Problems
Posted in Open Source News Tags: code, darkplaces, Development, Game, gpl, nexuiz, Open, project, source-efforts, vermeulen, xonotic No Comments » March 22nd, 2010 Admin
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana wasn’t talking about open source when he said that, of course, but it applies to the lessons of proprietary software just as well. Those who haven’t learned why open source is important are doomed to rely on proprietary solutions
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Why Webscale Companies Need open Source
Posted in Open Source News Tags: code, Companies, Control, facebook, identica, infrastructure, lessons, oracle, rackspace No Comments »
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