November 19th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, oss
Lots of news on Chrome OS today, but nothing to suprising as far as i can tell. Chrome OS is basically just an operating system than boots straight into a (full screen) browser. All your apps will be web apps. Seems logical. Most of the time i just boot my computer to get online: read [...]
October 28th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Here’s the updated FAQ. Short summary: Oracle plans to keep and invest in all Sun products such as: Netbeans, Glassfish, MySQL, VirtualBox, and OpenOffice.
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oracle, oss
So Oracle just bought Sun. At first look it might seem like closed source versus open source. Most of Oracle’s well known products are closed source, whereas most of Sun’s products are open source. But that’s not the full story. Oracle is also involved in Open Source. It just takes a different approach. There are [...]
March 21st, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in oss
Just saw this statement on succesful open source projects by Jay Kreps on the Linkedin blog: The long-term success of an open source project depends on its not being controlled by a single company, person, group, but forming a real self-sustaining group of interested developers. I couldn’t agree more. Open Source is about group collaboration. [...]
February 17th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, oss
One important aspect of open source is often overlooked: collaboration. Open source enables organizations to collaborate on building the software they need. Too often open source is just consumed: downloaded and installed because it’s free. To my surprise, the report i mentioned earlier, Ranking OS and OSS: NOIV monitor does reward organizations that release their [...]
December 2nd, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in oss
Businessweek just published an article called Open Source: The Model is Broken, which contains some statements about open source which not everybody understands. From the article: So open-source companies that rely on support and service alone are not long for this world…. Open source has simply become a means to an end—it lowers economies of [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in oss
Tons of people still think opensource software is created by hobbyists (hackers) working for free from home. In Economy to Give Open-Source a good Thumping Andrew Keen argues that the upcoming economic downturn will make programmers think twice about working for free and this might hurt open source. In my opinion he really doesn’t understand [...]
