OSS Is Changing The Game

Zack, the three examples you give appear to me as signs that OSS is under attack by vendors who don't gork the value of an open community & the customer value delivered. Yep, even the MSFT deal with Zend.

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Disappointed in Today’s News on Riya

About a year ago when Riya first launched with a big splash as a new Web 2.0 company with super exciting facial recognition software I was excited. I was super excited.

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RSF Says Shame On Yahoo

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched an initiative to help increase awareness of countries that actively censor the Internet, and singled out Yahoo's Jerry Yang for specific complaints about his company's dealings with oppressive governments.

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Is Intel Desperate?

Okay, someone explain this to me: Intel, a company that makes microprocessors, is backing and selling - but not profiting from - a suite of "Enterprise 2.0″ software for companies that includes blogging software (Typepad), a wiki (Socialtext), and RSS feed software (Simplefeed and Newsgator), called Suite Two.

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