Open Source Advocacy
I’ll keep talking about the importance of Open Source applications in the technology world. I know many just give a death ear but when we start talking about how much less you spend using Open Source applications then the information begins to get through. This time around its the famous Technology website C|Net News that’s going to talk to you about Open Source and spending less, they talking to you with this video. Watch!!!
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In a recent research on the – Influence of Open Source made by Kabatology for the University of Bologna(Unibo) Italy, Kanute (aka Martin Kaba) pointed out how Open source has revolutionized the software business in general by dramatically lowering the cost of entry for software providers. Development tools and infrastructure components required to deliver software as a service are now inexpensive or free. This has opened the software market to a much wider audience of developers who can now start companies and deliver their products for far less money than was required just a few years ago. In short, open source is making software cheaper in that it lowers barriers to entry and creates a more competitive market.
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Is there a right way to bust apart the challenging fortress of metaphor that Apple has created with the “Get a Mac” campaign? With such a powerful dichotomy between the Mac and PC archetypes, is it even possible to insert Linux and have it come out on top?
To answer that question, I think we have to set aside how Linux may be perceived today and consider how we want Linux to be perceived says Reverend Ted More»
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A program is not bad just because it’s not Open Source (or Free Software, or whatever the politically correct way to describe it is nowadays), but when the program tries to create it’s own protocol/file format/etc… when there are agreed upon standards, That is a bad thing. It is a practice used when trying to monopolize a market. Just look at the DVD-/+ and the Blue Ray/HD-DVD disasters. Yahoo Messenger can’t communicate with Msn Messenger or I use Skype and can only talk with a friend that has Skype. What can you do with a video file format like .wmv, if you do not use Windows Media player, we as consumers do not want that. WHERE are we heading to? More»
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