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Making Open-Source Software Free and Fabulous
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| Linux, by being truly open, lets hardware
| vendors and network operators offer an
| attractive code base that they can build
| their own applications and services on top
| of to more equally balance profits. Those
| include app stores, online music services,
| and add-on hardware.
|
| Does Linux have a shot at challenging
| Apple's dominance? We've seen this movie
| before. There was an Apple of the business
| computing market not so long ago. Sun
| Microsystems' high-end servers made the
| company a darling of information technology
| departments, Internet startups, and Wall
| Street investors in the late '90s and 2000.
| Linux was the underdog. A decade later, Sun
| no longer exists and Linux and Windows rule
| the data center.
|
| The control and flexibility that hardware
| vendors and network operators gain with
| Linux, plus the ability to share research
| and development costs and move faster, make
| Linux a powerful choice for mobile
| computing development. The computer
| industry is seeing a seismic shift wherein
| longtime Microsoft partners such as Intel
| and Hewlett-Packard are making huge bets on
| Linux, relegating Windows to a lesser role.
| This was inconceivable a decade ago.
|
| Apple has set a high bar, no doubt. But if
| you don't believe Linux can beat an
| entrenched market leader, just ask the
| folks who used to run Sun.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc2010069_622120.htm
Counting the Cost of Free: What Value, Linux?
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| Bentley: Your study found that it would
| cost $1.4 billion for a company to build
| the Linux kernel from scratch today, and
| $10.8 billion to build an entire Linux
| distribution similar to Fedora 9. Can you
| explain how you reached those figures?
|
| McPherson: The conclusions were reached by
| using David Wheelerâs well-known SLOC tool,
| SLOCCount, which makes use of the industry
| standard COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO).
| This methodology takes into account lines
| of code written, the appropriate number of
| labor years, and salary adjustments for
| inflation. We wanted to come up with a real
| number based on the one thing you can
| quantify in open source â code. We used a
| well-regarded methodology and tool that had
| been used before. Instead of making random
| projects, we thought this was the best way
| to approach it.
|
| Bentley: Why the Fedora community
| distribution and not another?
|
| McPherson: Fedora is the basis for Red Hat
| Enterprise Linux, which represents a large
| percentage of the Linux market. This
| provided us with a very relevant model to
| assess. Also, David A. Wheeler had used Red
| Hat for his study in 2002. OpenSuse and
| Debian/Ubuntu would, of course, also be
| great targets for this study. We may do
| that at a later date. We also would like to
| use an embedded distribution.
|
| [...]
|
| Bentley: Do the findings have added
| significance in light of the current
| economic climate?
|
| McPherson: I think so. Linux has always
| been a lower-cost alternative to Windows,
| but this report illustrates its economic
| impact on technology innovation. Itâs
| exciting to see how the collaborative
| development model is fueling a new category
| of devices and technologies that would be
| at least a decade into the future if it
| werenât for Linux. Letâs remember that in
| software, time is money; oftentimes time is
| more important than money. For a company
| like Google or Intel to be able to make use
| of this code that has taken years to
| develop, drives innovation and keeps costs
| low for consumers.
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http://eftu.co.cc/counting-the-cost-of-free-what-value-linux/
Recent:
Google Comments On Microsoftâs Efforts On Android and Linux
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| Google at this time simply said âno commentâ
| on Microsoftâs efforts to profit from their
| Android spin on Linux. But then Jim Zemlin,
| executive director of The Linux Foundation,
| explained about this Microsoft action, âThis
| is a classic from the Microsoft FUD
| playbook. A confidential agreement where few
| terms are disclosed, vaguely referring to an
| operating system that is beating Microsoft
| in the market. Microsoft is once again
| demonstrating that it will attempt to use
| patents to muddy the waters about the
| viability of any competitive platform in
| order to maintain its Windows franchise.
| Unfortunately for Microsoft, Linux is
| clearly leading in the mobile space and
| developers will see this news for what it is
| and choose to innovation open platforms as
| opposed to developing on locked-down
| operating systems from patent-wielding
| dinosaurs.â
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http://www.24worldnews.com/google-comments-on-microsofts-efforts-on-android-and-linux/10234/
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