Ten challenges and priorities for free and open source in 2008
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| In 2008, I think that we collectively should …
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| 1. Evolve open standards intellectual property licenses and development
| processes to be more friendly to free and open source. In the same way,
| increase the involvement of FOSS developers in open standards development.
| 2. Develop common models of FOSS use and governance for corporations and
| other organizations to adopt. My sense is that there are good consulting
| opportunities here.
|
| [...]
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2008
Open source and political junkies
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| We need more open source junkies, but we also need more attention in the mass
| market, a greater willingness to give downloaded open source a try.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1856
Related:
Opinion: What will rate in 2008?
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| Open source will be creeping further into many enterprise and SMB products.
| Already in 2007 we've benchmarked open source routing code that can
| outperform the market leader. Given the vast amount and generally good
| quality of the open source code available, it makes sense for vendors to take
| advantage of it rather than reinvent the wheel.
|
| Along with the open source movement, we are witnessing a resurgence of the
| general-purpose computer as the platform for such specialized network
| functions as firewalls and intrusion-prevention devices. Since the 1990s, the
| trend has been toward using specialised, hardware ASICs in such devices to
| deliver the desired high throughput and low latency. Back then,
| general-purpose computers simply didn't have the horsepower to process data
| fast enough.
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http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1832180653
Selling open source just keeps getting easier
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| One way to know that the open source market is maturing is to
| analyze how fast companies are able to get to significant revenues.
| By "significant" I mean $10M and on a sharp, upward ramp. When I
| started in the business of open source (2000, with Lineo), it was
| horribly difficult to pull in $1M in revenues, much less $10M.
|
| Now? The ink will still be dry on your VC term sheets when you
| cross that threshold. Really.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/the_decreasing.html
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