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I Hate to Say It Takes a Village, But.....

Is the open source community too clubbish for its own good? Several thought pieces Iﾒve seen recently got me to thinking that this might be the case, at least in terms of relevance to businesses. Dominic Sartorio makes a good case that open sourcers are increasingly balkanizing, instead of pursuing multilateral approaches that could increase adoption and help the growth of commercial open source efforts. Meanwhile, recent comments from Obsidian Systemsﾒ director Anton de Wet suggest that open source needs a whole new breed of business matchmakers to speed adoption from reluctant companies. Is the whole business outreach program in need of an overhaul?



Yahoo is the Reason for Microsoft's New Open Source Stance

It's not every day that a Microsoft executive as highly placed as senior vice president, corporate secretary and general counsel Brad Smith shows up at an open source conference, but he made an appearance at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco this week. I enjoyed the title of InfoWorld's summary of his visit: Microsot's Brad Smith Tries to Make Nice with Open Source Community.

Making nice was probably part of his motivation, but there's more to it. Especially after a huge fine from the EU, Microsoft needs to take concrete steps to work more closely with open sourcers. Also, people keep missing how Microsoft's proposed Yahoo deal would force it to embrace open source.



OSBC: Pundits Weigh in on Open Source

As the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco gets underway this week, the tech publication is posting a series of interesting transcripts from roundtable discussions on open source topics. The roundtables include a number of well-known pundits, including CNet writer Matt Asay, Bruce Perens (credited by many as coining the term open source), Sam Ramji (senior director of platform technology at Microsoft), Zack Urlocker (vice president of products at MySQL) and many others. Much of the talk surrounds the trend toward commercialization of open source products.



OStatic Buffer Overflow......

Looking to start a wiki? Socialized Software has an interesting discussion of Deki Wiki, reported to be ultra-simple to use.....Attorneys at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) have published an analysis of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise (see our story below), cautioning that it offers FOSS developers no real protection. See The Inquirer's take on it.....Web Worker Daily has a look at mind-mapping, brainstorming software, including good input from readers, and a look at the open source application FreeMind.



Microsoft's Ray Ozzie: Slow Integration for MicroHoo

You probably saw the comments from Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie this week, regarding his vision of a slow integration of technology platforms if Microsoft does acquire Yahoo. Ozzie told the Financial Times that seeking to quickly smash things together would be reckless. However, most of the analysis of these comments is centering on how Microsoft might approach integrating Yahoo's online advertising with its own platforms. This misses some huge points, not the least of which is that Yahoo runs almost entirely on open source software, and Microsoft will have to embrace that if it picks up Yahoo.


Microsoft Singularity: An Experimental OS Opens Up

When you think of dependable operating systems, do you think of Microsoft? If you've spent a lot of time with Windows, your answer to that is probably no. Nevertheless, Microsoft has been working away on an operating system for years now (since 2003) that would emphasize reliability via a tightly managed code kernel. Focused primarily on research applications, and a product of Microsoft Research, you can now download the source code and more from Microsoft's open source project hosting site Codeplex. So what does Microsoft have in mind?


Microsoft's New Openness: Danger Ahead for OSS Developers?

In the wake of Microsoft's announcement of new openness and interoperability initiatives, market researchers at Gartner are warning open source developers to tread carefully. In particular, a report from Gartner warns that underlying patents could create litigation risks if open source developers decide to play fast and loose with the documentation and APIs that Microsoft is making available. Are the warnings to be taken seriously?