Archive for the tag 'business'

Mar 13 2010

Perché fatico a decidere chi votare

Published by Stef under it, politica

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 di ricchezzapraticamente annullate, ho maturato un sentimento avverso alle posizioni antiche dei sindacati e di [...]

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Feb 12 2010

What Symbian is risking by freeing its code

Published by Stef under business, community

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 sincerely hope that we don’t see various manufacturers forking the code, and thus creating a veritable [...]

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Feb 11 2010

Choose a good license and manage well the community

Published by Stef under business, community, eng

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 a free license is a moral choice but that alone won’t secure neither commercial success nor any [...]

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Dec 03 2009

Funambol asks EU to approve the Oracle+Sun deal

Published by Stef under business, community, eng

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 neutral towards consumers.  MySQL is safe also in Oracle’s hands because the project, with so [...]

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Nov 11 2009

Perché ristabilire il senso di comunità porta al successo

Published by Stef under community, it

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 non è un concetto astratto. Praticamente tutti gli studenti (delle facoltà di Lingue, Turismo, Marketing [...]

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Nov 02 2009

Skype open source. Not!

Published by Stef under business, eng

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 UI will help us further our [Skype's] plans to monopolize the Voice Over IP market with a proprietary [...]

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Jan 16 2009

Another brick falls on the US patent system

Published by Stef under business, eng

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 recent Blisky case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit put the software patents [...]

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Jan 14 2009

Nokia and the L of smart freedom

Published by Stef under business, eng

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 free software to co-exist. Yes, with the LGPL the FSF admits that non-free software exists. [...]

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Dec 12 2008

Consumers are ‘mobile’, mobile marketing and services follow

Published by Stef under business, eng

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 chain (advertising investors, media buyers, creative agencies, telecom operators’  and service providers) and also a [...]

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Sep 11 2008

Cross-platform and interoperability is the key

Published by Stef under funambol

When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’  That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To connect people you have to adapt to people’s language, eventually learning many of them.
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