Myths About Open Source Development

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Examining Some Open Source Myths

Examining Some Open Source Myths 07/26/2004 05:44 AM

Open Source Myths - by Neil Gunton

Open Source Myths - by Neil Gunton 07/26/2004 12:23 PM

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Blane Warrene's Webl0g: Open Source
Myths

Blane Warrene's Webl0g: Open Source
Myths 08/04/2004 08:00 AM
From a quick post on Blane Warrene's weblog:

Open source process for open source
development

Open source process for open source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board of directors: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer. (via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)

Open source process for closed source
development

Open source process for closed source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

IBM Adopts Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.

IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing and testing new technology.

Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company. These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research and Global Services, he said."

Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the so called open source development process have they built into the Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different definitions of the open source development process (via Ross Gardler).

European Open Source Development
Threatened!

European Open Source Development
Threatened! 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Today sees an international day of protest against the move by the EU to make obtaining a patent easier within Europe. Such patents may cause Open Source software such as PHP to infringe on existing licenses and new ones, meaning we would no longer be safe to distribute PHP within Europe. Contact your EU Representative to get this cruicial vote blocked. Find out more at the campaign website

IXP4XX Open Source Development Guide

IXP4XX Open Source Development Guide 10/30/2003 01:39 AM
IXP400 v1.3 and SnapGear 3.0

Open Source Development with Perl,
Python and DB2

Open Source Development with Perl,
Python and DB2 10/11/2002 07:54 AM
Perl, PHP, and Python are used in many software projects today due to their flexibility, simplicity, portability and extensibility. To help you gain a better understanding of their popularity with Open Source developers, this article takes you through a tour of the important features and functions of Perl and Python. Using these language extensions in combination with IBM's® DB2® database and with Web services provided through the Google APIs, they build a client and server-side applicat

The social structure of open source
development

The social structure of open source
development 02/01/2005 08:49 PM
Andreas Brand is a sociologist researching ways of recruiting and organising teams of volunteers on the Internet. He has been studying KDE as an example of an open source project based upon collaboration without hierarchies. As part of his work he has conducted interviews with KDE developers, participated in several open source conferences, analysed the KDE home page, and distributed a questionnaire among volunteers. We asked him about his thoughts on the KDE development model.

Interview: Linux and the Open Source
Development Lab

Interview: Linux and the Open Source
Development Lab 04/13/2005 11:59 AM
Computer Shopper Apr 13 2005 3:48PM GMT

Sekoya - Open source game development

Sekoya - Open source game development 12/14/2003 12:28 PM
CVS is now enabled!

How to Misunderstand Open Source
Software Development

How to Misunderstand Open Source
Software Development 12/04/2003 06:05 AM
Consulting Times.com

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Senior Open Source Development Engineer

Senior Open Source Development Engineer 03/22/2005 04:32 PM
C&D Elite - United Kingdom, Berkshire, Reading (2005-03-22)

A model for open source software
development

A model for open source software
development 05/25/2004 11:36 AM
Critics of open source software have argued that, from an economic standpoint, "giving the product away" makes no sense. As a new business model, open source has been the victim of many misconceptions and mischaracterizations: that it's the equivalent of communism, that's it's like a virus, and that it's economically dangerous to society, for example. In such a hostile atmosphere, it's not easy to objectively assess a new paradigm that differs greatly from the status quo. However, though a comparable model may not exist in the IT sector, a parallel working model for open source already exists in at least one other field, biomedical research, and this model has been proven to be of great benefit to society.

Government to encourage open source
development

Government to encourage open source
development 12/30/2003 11:12 PM
The Israeli government also will encourage the development of lower-priced alternatives to Microsoft software in an effort to help expand computer use by the public. To that end, the Finance Ministry has cooperated with Sun Microsystems and IBM in designing the Hebrew language version of OpenOffice software, a freely distributed open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.

Open-Source Development 'Faster, Better,
Cheaper'

Open-Source Development 'Faster, Better,
Cheaper' 12/06/2003 09:47 AM

Usability and open-source software
development

Usability and open-source software
development 12/10/2003 03:24 AM

Open source development models fall flat

Open source development models fall flat 05/12/2004 05:15 PM
Study finds that commercial software developed at disparate locations takes twice as long to complete.

BlueGlue Tools Expedite Open-Source
Development

BlueGlue Tools Expedite Open-Source
Development 06/28/2004 10:10 AM
At JavaOne, OpenLogic will launch itself as well as its BlueGlue developer tools suite of more than 100 open-source tools from projects such as Eclipse, MySQL, Apache and JBoss.

US attitude to open source may hinder
development, warns Red Hat CEO

US attitude to open source may hinder
development, warns Red Hat CEO 08/04/2004 06:07 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 4 2004 10:14AM GMT

Open-source development models fall flat

Open-source development models fall flat 05/13/2004 10:54 PM
Computer Weekly May 14 2004 2:40AM GMT

LinuxWorld Australia: Start-up
Commercialises Open Source Development

LinuxWorld Australia: Start-up
Commercialises Open Source Development 07/02/2004 06:20 PM
"With a low barrier to entry, high developer popularity, and good software integration, PHP scripting language appealed to Victorian start-up Komodo for its development of a commercial, enterprise-grade content management system..."

The Jukebox Mode of Innovation: a Model
of Commercial Open Source Development

The Jukebox Mode of Innovation: a Model
of Commercial Open Source Development 06/19/2004 05:49 AM
The Jukebox Mode of Innovation: a Model of Commercial Open Source Development by Joachim Henkel
http://opensource.m it.edu/papers/henkel.pdf

Abstract by author:
In this paper, I explore the circumstances under which innovation processes without secrecy or intellectual property protection are viable, and where free revealing of innovations is a profit-maximizing strategy. Motivated by an empirical study of embedded Linux, I develop a duopoly model of quality competition. Firms require two complementary technologies as inputs, but differ with respect to the relative importance of these technologies. I find that a regime with compulsory revealing can lead to higher product qualities and higher profits than a proprietary regime. When the decision to reveal is endogenized, equilibria with voluntary revealing arise, again superior to the proprietary outcome.

YahooFinance: MySQL, Zend Join Forces to
Strengthen Open Source Web Development

YahooFinance: MySQL, Zend Join Forces to
Strengthen Open Source Web Development 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, and Zend Technologies, designers of the PHP Web scripting engine, today announced a partnership to simplify and improve productivity in developing and deploying Web applications with open source technologies.

Firms can improve success rate by
learning from open source software
development

Firms can improve success rate by
learning from open source software
development 06/10/2004 08:58 PM
Computer Weekly Jun 11 2004 1:19AM GMT

AMD Joins Open Source Development Labs
and Recognizes Community Support for
AMD64

AMD Joins Open Source Development Labs
and Recognizes Community Support for
AMD64 04/22/2004 02:29 AM

Which move offshores more jobs:
Continuing open source development, or
non-U.S. Microsoft price cuts?

Which move offshores more jobs:
Continuing open source development, or
non-U.S. Microsoft price cuts? 03/06/2004 02:01 AM
Open source software usually free. Microsoft software is not. When Microsoft decides to drop the price of software sold to developing nations, but not the price charged to U.S. customers, Microsoft is effectively subsidizing economic development everywhere but here. Make...

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

Busting Windows-to-Linux development
myths

Busting Windows-to-Linux development
myths 04/28/2004 10:29 AM
If you've been developing for Windows for (n+1) years, you might consider venturing into open source software development a daunting prospect. Reading the Free Software Foundation Web site makes it look like all development is done in straight C -- of course there's no Visual C++ or Visual Basic. Linux doesn't have its own component model and there is nothing even remotely like DirectX for low-level hardware access. It's just too hard for the dyed-in-the-wool Windows developer to program for Linux.

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group 05/07/2004 04:33 PM
A key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the legal standing of open-source software.

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life 06/23/2004 08:27 PM
As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! — here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So there.)...

Open source opportunity, open source
risk

Open source opportunity, open source
risk 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the ArsDigita flameout, Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the risk, of open source as a business model. ...

From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb) 04/08/2005 04:56 AM
TechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community 05/05/2004 04:06 AM
About a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification, addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and privileges that we associate with open source software.

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
What should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the whole enchilada.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal, and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open Source.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model. 02/18/2004 10:41 PM
Pi ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business Model. Interesting.
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Infoworld: Reviewing Open Source CMS

Infoworld: Reviewing Open Source CMS 01/15/2003 11:50 AM
Open-source CMSes (content management systems)—such as PHP-Nuke (www.phpnuke.org), eZ Publish (www.ez.no) and Bricolage (www.bricolage.cc)—provide a compelling third option, one that can be flexible and relatively inexpensive without requiring companies to build their own CMS from the ground up.

Of course, an open-source CMS solution can present its own challenges. As we've seen before with open-source software, the flip side of great flexibility is often challenging complexity. While it's true that open source enables companies to cross off licensing-fee line items from their project budgets, a portion of these savings must be redirected to development expertise, be it outsourced or in-house.

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Open-source BIND gets tech support

Open-source BIND gets tech support 04/26/2004 07:24 AM
The Internet Systems Consortium begins selling commercial support for the widely used but low-profile open-source product.

Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player

Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player 07/16/2004 05:17 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jul 16 2004 9:21PM GMT

Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player
(AP)

Open-Source Software a Big Tech Player
(AP) 07/16/2004 11:40 AM
AP - It powers more than 70 percent of all Web servers and routes much of the world's e-mail traffic. It makes surfing the Internet simple and provides the muscle behind Google Inc.'s search engine and countless e-commerce sites.

Briefly: Open-source BIND gets tech
support

Briefly: Open-source BIND gets tech
support 04/26/2004 08:56 AM
CNET Apr 26 2004 1:13PM GMT

tech.life@school | Open-source software
may be solution

tech.life@school | Open-source software
may be solution 04/03/2005 03:44 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 3 2005 7:36AM GMT

AP/USA Today: Open-Source Software
Thrives in the Shadows of Tech

AP/USA Today: Open-Source Software
Thrives in the Shadows of Tech 07/17/2004 06:11 PM
"It powers more than 70% of all Web servers and routes much of the world's e-mail traffic. It makes surfing the Internet simple and provides the muscle behind Google's search engine and countless e-commerce sites..."

Linux, open source, and other tech news
coverage in 2004

Linux, open source, and other tech news
coverage in 2004 12/31/2003 01:11 PM
Rather than try to make the usual sweeping predictions about what the future holds for the computer hardware and software industries or even just for Linux and open source, I'm going to make some predictions about how tech news will be covered in the next year. Let's start by saying a minimum of 5000 articles (give or take 4900) will be written in 2004 declaring Linux "finally ready for the desktop," up from 3000 (give or take 2900) similar articles in 2003.

Bus-Tech Improves Mainframe-Open Source
Connectivity (TechWeb)

Bus-Tech Improves Mainframe-Open Source
Connectivity (TechWeb) 03/30/2005 07:18 AM
TechWeb - The zDASD can now emulate up to 512 IBM 3390 data volumes, allowing IT administrators to deploy 13 terabytes of open systems disks as mainframe-attached DASD.

ADTmag: Open-Source MySQL DBMS Adds
Clustering Tech

ADTmag: Open-Source MySQL DBMS Adds
Clustering Tech 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
"Swedish open-source database maker MySQL AB plans to release a new clustered database product with high-availability support next month..."

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks 04/12/2005 08:07 PM
Accessible through common Web browsers, the collaboration platform lets users share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and documents originating from both proprietary and open-source systems.

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware 12/19/2003 11:45 AM
MSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.

Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's own website-."

Update: Yoz points out that the patch has been patched. Link (via /.)

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter 07/20/2004 11:14 AM
One frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in Mozilla (keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has remained unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse interaction with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system unusable and that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers and not dealt with for at least two years - when there are more examples like this that make using Open Source software a pain, what do you do?

Are you one of the few people with the time and money and expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the problem?

Do we have it "too good" and these niggles are, by comparison to the rest of the world's computer users (Windows), absolute peanuts?

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention 08/09/2004 12:52 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 9 2004 5:11AM GMT

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com) 08/03/2004 10:28 AM
washingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to convince the general public that the Linux operating system is becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.

Open source cracks publishing wide open

Open source cracks publishing wide open 06/17/2004 11:24 AM
Once upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations. Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat. Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle, are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source 06/16/2004 11:32 AM
The White Rabbit has beckoned us down the wrong rabbit hole. Much has been made about the open source revolution, and with good reason. The open source development model produces superior software. But, in my estimation, the real promise of open source lies not in open source, but rather in open distribution. Here's why ...

Myths About Open Source Development

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