While the stock market has minted a few tech people as billionaires, including the richest geek on the planet, the most successful in the open source movement probably won’t touch the same level of wealth.
Validating Open Source IP Indemnity
Roberto writes that Sun has agreed to include an Italian dictionary and thesaurus (from the Italian Native-Lang Project team) in the official OpenOffice.org distro. Congrats to Roberto & team!
Media Source or Media Pest?
Was in NYC earlier this month for a trade show and I arranged several media briefings, amongst other duties (reg. req.).
Google Custom SEs Another Trust Source
Recently Bambi Fransisco asked Googler Peter Norvig about using wikis in search, in response to Wikia’s search threat.
Innovation, Maintenance and Open Source
A NetworkWorld article quotes Google’s GM of Enterprise Business as saying:
Sugar CRM – Roadmap to Commercial Open Source Technology
Sugar CRM is commercial Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes, based on the LAMP stack (Linux-OS; Apache-Web Server; MySQL-Database Server; PHP-Programming Language).
Open Source Needs More Concerted Efforts
Major corporate houses choose open source partly due to the economic gains and mainly due to the control the open source system gives to their hands.
Open Source and Career Opportunities
Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: “Work for an open source company.”
Open Source Second Life’s Next Steps
Monday’s announcement by Linden Lab that the software you run on your computer to interact with Second Life will be opened up to anyone who wants to contribute to its future development generated wide-ranging commentary in the media and among bloggers.
Open Source Software Closer to Commercial Enterprise Software
The odds are good that the LAMP stack is running somewhere inside your company.