In the News
News Blog reports, "Using open source as a competitive weapon to batter competitors yields paltry returns, according to (Oliver) Alexy," in a recently released research study.
Channel Web Network quotes Microsoft's Steve Balmer as saying, " "We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source products..."
Matt Asay quotes from the book Nonzero, "To compete for high-status positions is to play a zero-sum game, since they are by definition a scarce resource. Yet one way to compete successfully is to invent technologies that create new non-zero-sum games. This is one of various senses in which the impetus behind cultural evolution, behind social complexification, lies in a paradox of human nature: we are deeply gregarious, and deeply cooperative, yet deeply competitive. We instinctively play both non-zero-sum and zero-sum games. (27)" Asay claims that this book is full of ideas related to the OS community.
Lee Gomes writes in the Wall Street Journal, "Even though Linux is easier than ever to use, the dream of many Linux buffs of it replacing Windows as the desktop mainstay is, at best, stalled, and at worst, fading."
Also in the Wall Street Journal, "Linus Torvalds, head of development for Linux, comments on the operating system, its rival Windows, what motivates software developers and the occasional messiness of free choice."
On the Blogosphere
ZDNet reports, "Ubuntu 7.10 has some interesting and useful new features that make it worth taking a look at."
EWeek.com provides "10 Things You Should Know about Open Source."
Saturday, October 20, 2007
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