Tag Archives: business

First thing: Love your community

Posted on 29 June, 2010 by Stef

I’m glad that Jorg Janke shared his experience of developing a commercial open source business with Compiere because you learn from failures as well as success. His long piece has some interesting parts, but what caught my attention most is … Continue reading →

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Perché fatico a decidere chi votare

Posted on 13 March, 2010 by Stef

Negli ultimi 15 anni ho sempre sentito parlare di tutela del lavoro ma intorno a me vedevo solo 50enni col ‘posto fisso’ e 30enni sempre in cerca. Con gli stipendi dei miei coetanei ridotti a livelli infimi e le prospettive … Continue reading →

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What Symbian is risking by freeing its code

Posted on 12 February, 2010 by Stef

I honestly cannot understand the fear of forks that is spreading within the Symbian community. Since Symbian Foundation released the full source code of the operating system under the Eclipse Public License I’ve read few comments like the following: I … Continue reading →

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Choose a good license and manage well the community

Posted on 11 February, 2010 by Stef

Some of the things that Mike Tienman said in this interview with InternetNews.com I could have said myself. I have come to believe that a license alone is neither a secret to success nor an absolution of sin. Exactly: choosing … Continue reading →

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Funambol asks EU to approve the Oracle+Sun deal

Posted on 3 December, 2009 by Stef

I was very concerned when DG Competition announced that they needed to take more time to investigate the merger of Oracle and Sun because of MySQL. The deal for me seemed not only natural for business reasons, but also naturally … Continue reading →

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Perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo

Posted on 11 November, 2009 by Stef

Ho tenuto oggi una lezione di tre ore al Social Media Lab dello IULM dal titolo Etica della società digitale, ovvero perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo. Oggi ho avuto la conferma che il software libero ormai … Continue reading →

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Skype open source. Not!

Posted on 2 November, 2009 by Stef

Skype open source? Reading the full announcement on Skype blog: [...]Having an open source UI will help us [...] So, it’s not Skype being open sourced, but it’s only the UI. The full sentence should be: Having an open source … Continue reading →

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Another brick falls on the US patent system

Posted on 16 January, 2009 by Stef

It looks like the US patent system, that the free software movement has been fighting for the past 25 years, is dying. First academia started questioning its usefulness (back in 1958), then the conservative cultural circles at WSJ.’  In the … Continue reading →

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Nokia and the L of smart freedom

Posted on 14 January, 2009 by Stef

The good news today is that Nokia relicensed the Qt (pr: cute) libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License, demonstrating that the mobile ecosystem is where things happen. The GNU Lesser GPL is a license that allows non-free and … Continue reading →

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Consumers are ‘mobile’, mobile marketing and services follow

Posted on 12 December, 2008 by Stef

Yesterday I went to listen to the conference where MIP, Politecnico Business School, published the results of the research about Mobile Marketing and Services. The research was based on 200 case studies, involving all the major actors of the supply … Continue reading →

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