Why I m interested in Open Source: related news

Reader Question: How do you get what you need from clients?

I feel exploited when a customer takes to much time to send me all the images, texts, videos, ideas etc that I need to complete the project. In the meantime, severals changes are asked from the client. A web site project could take 3 months! Eating peanut butter 3 months in a row is not very interesting (it’s juste an exemple of how poor I can be cause I wait for my money). A project could be finished in 2 short weeks (that never happened to me)… Even if I charge 40% of the total price at the beginning, I always feel that I’m more interested in finishing the project that the customer is. Sometimes I wonder if I’m in the good job in my life, but I prefer to be poor sometimes than having a boss. I’m open to any ideas to not feel exploited, and sorry if I’m definatly not in the topic, that’s what I understood from the article, feeling exploi

Is Live Messenger Interfering With IE or Have I Been Hacked?

When I turn on my computer, Windows Live Messanger is signed on. I never use this tool to IM. Now I cannot get more than one IE page to open at one time. When I already have one page open and I try to open another I get the response that the IE page is not responding, and that it is sending Microsoft an error message. I have logged off and shut down about seven times in a row. I evidently do not have a normal router either. I need to know how to go into my computer and check my router to see if it is sending out signals. And I need to check the security of my computer. How would I know how to tell whether I am just having problems with the computer, or if someone has hacked into my computer. Any help would be appreciated. Misseltoile

Why I'm interested in Open Source

Because it's having a distorting effect on the rest of the industry. I'm afraid I don't buy the argument (nor would I have to, but you get what I mean) that all software should be free, as Richard Stallmann would so dearly like. Any more than I would agree that all music should be free, or indeed that my plumber should pop round tomorrow and fix the dripping bath tap. It's a laudable goal of course, as is world peace and the nirvanic state where everyone just gets on. But its just not going to happen, because various elements of human nature—good and bad—won't let it.

Why I did it: I returned the iPhone 3G after only 6 days!

I have no excuses – I should have known better than to let my gadget envy get the better of me. But, with all the new way cool features added to the iPhone 3G and the fact that my existing AT&T plan allowed me to upgrade at $199, I decided to join the other crazies in line last Saturday afternoon and spend 2 hours to get my hands on a new iPhone 3G. I’ve spent more than 20 hours since then trying to get it to do what I needed it to do (i.e., synchronize with Outlook, stay charged up for more than a day, not die when I touch a button, etc.) and then I spent another 3 hours yesterday trying to return it. For more about why I now feel like a moron, read on…

Actuate Initiates Open Source Advisory Board

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced the formation of an Open Source Advisory Board. Open Source technology industry luminaries Julie Hanna Farris, a seasoned open source technology entrepreneur and Andrew Aitken, CEO of the Olliance Group, the leading open source management consultancy, are founding members of the board. The board’s mission is to reinforce and extend the leadership and innovation of Actuate’s open source business model, which combines the key elements of open source with the best of enterprise software and to further Actuate’s community contributions and activities.

How Do I Prevent Lan Party Theft?

DragonTHC writes "I'm thinking about hosting a lan party open to the public. I'm aiming for approximately 60 people to attend. I can handle all the logistics of operation. The only thing I can't wrap my head around is: how do I prevent theft at the lan party? Do I hire security guards? Do I need security cameras? I don't know the people who will attend, and I don't know if they're trustworthy enough to not steal other people's equipment. What do I do?"

Is Mule Really Open Source?

"Most Open Source Projects (Not the namesake open source projects) are released under an OSI approved license. The open source definition of OSI states that 'Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria'. It goes on to describe 10 items under this. Item #6 states that 'The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.'

How will the Comcast limits affect you?

I use Comcast. It's the only high-speed Internet access I can get where I live. I've never been sent a "you're going over the limit" message from them, so I'm told that means that their newly publicized caps on usage are not going to affect me. But is that really true? Disregarding the fact that downloaded video is going to get more and more popular as time goes on, and I'm sure I'll be downloading more in the future (I already watch Netflix and YouTube a little), now, as a Web designer I have to consider bandwidth more carefully. As Positive Space Blog says, now I'll have to think about how what I'm designing might affect someone else's cap, not just my own. In other words, just as we were starting to move away from the problems of slow-speed Internet access, Comcast turns around and makes that issue important again.

Entries Invited for the 2009 Open Source Business Award

NUREMBERG, Germany, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Headquartered in Nuremberg, Open Source Business Foundation e.V. (http://www.osbf.de), the European network of the open source sector, is now inviting entries for the 2009 Open Source Business Award. The OSBA is the largest European business plan competition, and is open to all companies, consortia, public authorities and private individuals concerned with innovative solutions that are based on open source software. Participants have until November 30, 2008 to submit their business plans and concepts to win prize money totaling EUR 78,000, coaching offerings by established experts and venture capital financing. The awards ceremony will be held on January 28, 2009, during the "Open Source Meets Business" congress, which publishers Heise Verlag are staging in cooperation with OSBF in Nuremberg.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — July 15, 2008 — Ingres Corporation, a provider of open source database management software and support services, announces that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year's Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2008--Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year’s Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Voiceroute execs talk about going (mostly) open source (video)

Voiceroute, a software PBX vendor, originally started as a proprietary software company but went (at least partly) open source earlier this year. In this video, CEO Ming Guang Yong says the company should have moved toward open source "a lot sooner," and explains why. He and CTO Navin Kumar also talk about some of the specific differences between their open source and proprietary versions, including how and where they draw the line between the two, and share their thoughts about dealing with open source developers and building a successful open source development community.

Privacy advocates marshal to fight copyright regime

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Where Has All My Spam Gone?

An anonymous reader writes "I have my own domain, which has its own email server, where I receive all my personal email. I've been getting about 800 emails a day, of which perhaps 20 are real. Suddenly, Sunday or Monday evening, the spam pretty much stopped. My volume of mail has plummeted to less than 100 a day, and as far as I can tell, I'm not missing any real mail — I'm still getting the email list subscriptions I'm expecting, and every time I ask someone to send me a test message, it gets through. My domain host insists that it doesn't do any spam filtering before mail gets to my inbox, and that they've changed nothing about their configuration. I run SpamAssassin on my server to mark, but not delete, spam, and download the whole mess to my home client, and I'm still seeing the occasional message tagged by SpamAssassin.

Open-Source Software: Evolving Toward Broader Acceptance

Open source is assessed for more than half of businesses software acquisitions, according to Saugatuck Technology, a research and consulting firm. A CIO.com survey conducted in April showed that 53 percent of respondents were already using open-source applications in their enterprises and that 44 percent considered open-source applications equally during acquisition processes with proprietary applications. While this may surprise some, most businesses no longer carry the negative perceptions once associated with open-source solutions. The software is in use in some of the world's largest corporations and governments, in some of the most intensive application environments. In addition, open source is easy to acquire within many organizations compared to commercial solutions.

Custom Flame Painting - Lay Flames Like A Pro

I've liked flames since I was a little kid growing up in Southern California during the '50s. I can't remember if the first time I ever saw something flamed was in one of my dad's custom car magazines, or on a hot-rod driving down the street. I do remember by the time I was in elementary school I was getting in trouble with my teachers for drawing flames on all of my school papers. When old people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I told them a custom painter. By the time I was 14 I was custom painting all of my friend's bicycles in the neighborhood. By age 17, I had opened up a custom paint shop out of my parent's garage.

Java, Where to Start?

I'm a web developer who has design and programming experience. So, VB, ASP, PHP, Coldfusion, Perl, even C and C++ I have in my belt. I also use Dreamweaver and/or do a lot of my HTML/XHTML/JavaScript coding by hand. So, the DOM, DHTML, etc, all good to me and even OOP thinking and design I have when I code. And I even have MySQL and other databases, again, not an issue here. So, my weak point is — Java — I see so many jobs out there with J2EE, Hibernate, Eclipse, Netbeans. Beside the obvious, which is to learn Java the core language, I don't know where else to go from there. There is so much! What should I read? in what order? What software do I require? UML? Swing? I mean, what is the curriculum required for someone to say they are a solid Java developer? Even assuming I have to go through Java itself, what are the good books out the

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater...

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code SAN MATEO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify Software, Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for business software assurance, released today its Open Source Security Study which reveals that the most widely-used open source software packages for the enterprise are exposing users to significant and unnecessary business risk. The study validates that Open Source Software (OSS) development communities have yet to adopt a secure development process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities unaddressed.

Study Says Open Source Software a Security Risk

chareverie writes "Fortify Software released a study where they concluded that open source software poses a large security risk to corporations who have implemented it. They reason this by stating that the fault lies within the open source communities and their failure to adhere to minimum security practices. Fortify Software studied 11 open source software packages, where the application server Tomcat was determined to be the best. The other 10 were found to have poor results, with those being Derby, Geronimo, Hibernate, Hipergate, JBoss, Jonas, OFBiz, OpenCMS, Resin and Struts. Jacob West, manager of Fortify's research group, reminds that purpose of the study was 'not to condemn open source software, but rather to point out that the security practices need to improve because open source adoption by enterprises and governments is growing

Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition

There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jacobsen v. Katzer, No. 2008-1001 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008) easily goes to the top of the charts of this small category. This is a highly significant opinion that will greatly bolster the efforts of the open source community to control the use of open source software according to the terms set out in open source licenses.

Debian teams survey results

Hey folks, As you may remember, back before I started the DPL job I promised to run a survey. Then I pestered a huge number of people to answer a set of questions and get back to me. I've taken longer than I hoped to read through all those responses and summarise them, but finally I'm done. As I said at the time, I'm *not* going to go into great gory detail about individuals or specific teams here and now. Many of the surveys include personal information and I promised to protect that. Instead, this is just a summary of the results. I'll be following up in more detail with various of the teams in the coming weeks. If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to contact me. So, enough of the disclaimers... :-) The raw numbers =============== I sent out 75 mails containing survey questions[1] at the end of April.

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Open Source Census Reveals Trends After More Than 275,000 Installations of Open Source Software Found to Date

The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo it has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines.

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