Posts Tagged With: Open Source
Open source dents a loss of $60 billion on the software industry
The Standish Group (Who’s that?) is reporting that open source is robbing those poor, starving proprietary software companies of $60 billion in revenue each year. From the report: Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion … Continue reading
Open Source ‘Movement’ Becoming A Gold Rush
Posted by Charles Babcock I see references to the open source “movement,” as if it were a cohesive ideological gathering, like the Labor Movement of the 1930s or maybe the Wobblies. I agree there are certain shared values among open source developers and a favored way of doing things, but I’ve always doubted the political … Continue reading
Yahoo could be behind Microsoft’s “interest” for open source !
What do you get if you couple an email from Kevin Johnson, Microsoft president of the company Platforms & Services Division, to employees about the Yahoo deal and the software giant’s pledge to be more interoperable with the open source world? One big moment to prove Microsoft is serious about this interoperability thing. Yahoo could … Continue reading
