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Monday, May 17, 2004

Seven Open Source Business Strategies

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 17, @11:19AM
from the building-an-economic-future dept.
Openstandards.net writes "One of /. posters' favorite discussions is the value of open source as a business model. OSDN has an article on IT Manager's Journal that highlights seven business strategies for open source. " Slashdot and ITMJ are both owned by OSDN.

[Slashdot]

12:18:26 PM

FAQs about the Frontier open source release. [Scripting News]

More on the open-sourcing of Frontier. Apparently Userland now only licenses Frontier as the platform on which Radio and Manila are built.

11:47:09 AM

Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report

Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 17, @09:39AM
from the fear-uncertaintity-and-doubt dept.
MrIrwin writes "According to this article on Yahoo, Linus is not the real father of Linux and Open source software is really just code nicked from other sources. " Groklaw has done a dissection of the press release. It's a press release by the Alexis de Toqueville Institution, who gets funding from MSFT, as well as believes that US IT troubles are because of free software. Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea.

[Slashdot]

Does anyone take stuff like this seriously?

10:59:09 AM

As good a time as any. And that's what I want to announce today. At some point in the next few months, there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel. Not sure what license it'll use. There won't be any grand expectations of what kind of community will develop. Even if no bugs get fixed, if no features get added, if no new OSes are supported, it will be worth it, because its future will be assured. [Scripting News]
10:57:34 AM

ABA Journal - Towering Titans - "Like well-prepared boxers entering the ring for a donnybrook, they have comparable statistics. They are giants who have built themselves up over decades to dominate their field. They are counter-punching and challenging, neither willing to let the other step too far ahead. They are the heavyweights of legal research, West and LexisNexis, providers of the digital services known as Westlaw and Lexis."

Good aritcle highlighting the competition between West and Lexis. No mention of law schools.

10:46:54 AM