Diverse blogs from blogger.com

I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: "History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. ...

This is an extremely exhaustive look at security vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source software. It highlights trends in malware and phishing, and ranks vendors as well as open source projects by how vulnerable they are to ...

At the OSI blog Andrew C Oliver discusses the potential for the OSI to “develop standards beyond the current license-centric set of standards known as the ‘Open Source Definition‘” with which to judge the business models of open source ...

I pleased to announce that the first open source iPhoneDevCamp iPhone application is now available on the iTunes App Store. It is a very simple application, called “red:green”, which is described on our new apps.iPhoneDevCamp.org web ...

(Source: Groundwork) Learn about an open source management alternative for the mid-enterprise in Ptak, Noel and Associates' (PNA) report. PNA has been watching the emerging integrated open source management suite market. ...

The UK based publisher Packt, known to the open source world for its Open Source CMS Awards and to have donated $100000 to open source projects, has sent me a copy of “Blogger: Beyond the basics“, a book about using the Google blog ...

How we develop open source software can vary widely from project to project. However, the roles we play are similar across projects: user, developer, tester, documenter, committer, etc. For a while now, I have been interested in what ...

IBM and Websense are separately issuing their semiannual security trend reports this week, and the picture isn't pretty for Web sites, open source software and social networking programs.

Last week, Fortify published a study on adoption of security best-practices within the Open Source community. Given mounting risk posed by extensive use of Open Source technologies within business and government IT, we were gratified to ...

This is why the Open Web Foundation, announced last week at OScon, is putting an important stake in the ground. It's not just open source software for the web that we need, but open standards that will ensure that dominant players still ...

Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple. Furthermore, the Redmond company, ...

I was really happy to see a blog post on Open Source and Cloud Computing by Tim O’Reilly in O’Reilly Radar today. Not just because he gave a nod to my new microblogging project, Identi.ca, although that was pretty sweet. ...

What would your favorite small open source project do with a sudden influx of money? Imagine you donated $5000 to a project, where would the money go? Less scrupulous developers might spend the money on Mountain Dew and Twinkies, ...

(Source: Groundwork) Learn about an open source management alternative for the mid-enterprise in Ptak, Noel and Associates' (PNA) report. PNA has been watching the emerging integrated open source management suite market. ...

At OpenLogic we review open source software prior to adding it to our certified library. Projects get added to our queue in a number of ways, but more often than not, customers contact us and let us know they are using a project and ask ...

we will present this study which took in consideration only the open source web content management systems (and only the publication-oriented CMSs, not e-commerce like osCommerce and not enterprise portals like LifeRay). ...

This is an extremely exhaustive look at security vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source software. It highlights trends in malware and phishing, and ranks vendors, open source projects, and even languages by security breach ...

Open sourcing code is more than sticking an OSI approved license on it and putting it up on a public repository. Discussing this is getting to be a bit of a theme at Dev Fu, as many of our experienced open source developers are watching ...

Are Open Source Zealots Hindering Software Innovation? Linus Torvalds joins open-source devekopment group; Open source development models fall flat commercially; The Adverse Impact Of Too Many Open Source Licenses? ...

Making customers successful using open source technologies is the mission of open source software vendors. High quality support is crucial to successful long-term relationships between vendors and their customers. ...