Tag Archives: business
IBM and its success across a century
I spent many months together with IBM Italy during the first years of their ‘Linux initiative’ and learned to appreciate this huge corporation. I worked with their engineers certifying the now-defunct Linux distribution MadeInLinux for IBM x86 servers and later … Continue reading
What to do if adoption of copyleft licenses declines
Is adoption of copyleft licenses really declining? Blackduck Sotware with its own secret recipe says so, as Matt Aslett reports. Whether or not this is true we can’t tell because BlackDuck doesn’t publish their method to collect and analyze its … Continue reading
Why is Asus selling bad customer experience?
When I read that Asus announced to ship three new models of its Eee PC with Ubuntu I was excited. Then I went on to read the full announcement and I found out ath NETBOOK INNOVATOR Asustek has announced that … Continue reading
Oracle ‘donates’ OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
Oracle has done what Sun should have done a long time ago: put OO.org code into the hand of an independent foundation. The good news is that now a wider participation from corporations and individuals is possible. Hell, even Microsoft … Continue reading
First action from Microsoft after buying Skype
Every time Microsoft has the chance to demonstrate it can play nice with free software/open source companies, they fail. After buying Skype, Microsoft has canceled the agreement with Digium for the Asterisk/Skype bridge. As Simon says: In one move, we … Continue reading
Is Google Docs the weakest link in Chromebook?
Interesting thoughts on what Google should do to take over Windows with its Chromebook. I don’t agree with all of it, especially I don’t think that Google Docs should necessarily get all the features of MS Word (including the unnecessary … Continue reading
How is Google damaging consumers?
I kept this post as draft since I read Wired’s article about Google and their supposed dominant position. Today I read again about the new investigation of US Antitrust targeting bigG because it holds too much market share in online … Continue reading
The master hack of mr. Zuckerberg
Eben Moglen mentioned not too long ago Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg saying: Mr. Zuckerberg has [...] done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age I wonder if he foresaw also that this golden boy would also … Continue reading
Orrido olezzo emana dall’Italia
Troppo facile fare giochi di parole sulla vicenda Profumo, ma davvero è il caso di dire che qui qualcosa puzza. E si sente fino a qui! Ma come, Profumo ha tirat su una delle più importanti banche del mondo, un … Continue reading
First thing: Love your community
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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