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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> RP Open Source confab: It's time to make the rules
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>| After years of breaking the rules in the computing world, it?s now time for
>| open source to make the rules.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Right now, there's tremendous opportunity for Filipinos with open
>| source skills since 67 percent of servers used in the Internet is based
>| on open source technology.
>|
>| "But we'd also like to emphasize that we?re not against any
>| software company," Contreras said. "What we?re saying is that with
>| open source, companies now have an option to choose."
> `----
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> http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO2006092575370.html
>
>
> That nation is moving to Linux and Open Source.
>
> The Open Source Bill
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>| "This act shall be known as the "Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)
>| Act of 2006"
> `----
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> http://www.chinwong.com/Documents/FOSS_bill_draft_.pdf
>
> More schools take to open source
>
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>| Unlike the first two phases of the program that used the proprietary
>| Windows operating system and Microsoft Office, the computers in phase 3
>| will be bundled with free and open source Fedora Linux and OpenOffice.
>|
>| "This is the most important milestone," he said, noting that the project
>| went to Lenovo in a public bidding in part because its software costs were
>| so low.
>|
>| Free and open source software is also increasingly finding its way into
>| state-owned universities and colleges, Lallana said.
> `----
>
> http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=interactive01_sept04_2006
Microsoft will really have to get themselves a viable business model
with commodity margins, rather than the vendor lock-in/monopoly margins
they've been so very happy with to date.
I suspect that if they wish to continue writing software themselves,
they're going to have to find a new place to try to build a monopoly
with lock-in. The xbox experiment has gained some revenues, but doesn't
seem to have been massively successful in creating margin, from the
accounts given to date.
Pushing into the telco sector with locked-down IPTV offerings has
certainly gained some revenues, but as the telcos are busy moving to
FLOSS models, this doesn't look like a long-term viable plan from where
I'm sitting. Take a look at CGLinux in the OSDL, ATCA/Mountain View
Alliance, Scope Alliance, ITU-OCAF, and so on.
They could certainly push into a real support model (not the one they
have now, but one where they do proper support to eg., businesses, and
perhaps even to the public at large), but they'd need to transform
themselves into an open-source business.
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