Showing posts with label Matthew Aslett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matthew Aslett. Show all posts
11 February 2010

SAP Slouches Towards Bethlehem

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Readers with a taste for high comedy may remember my post “Why SAP is Such a Sap over Software Patents”, which rather took to task a certain...
06 January 2009

Brainstorming with GNOME's Stormy Peters

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As I wrote last week, foundations are playing an increasingly important role in the development of free software. I cited Mozilla Foundation...
15 October 2008

Open Source Business Does Not Scale

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At first sight, the findings of The 451 Group’s latest CAOS report, “Open Source is Not a Business Model“ might seem to be terrible news for...
20 June 2008

Getting a Handle on EU OSS

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Rather pathetically for someone based in an island lying but a few dozens of kilometres off the continent, I am conscious of the fact that I...
23 April 2008

OLPC is Dead...

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...and Matthew Aslett is dead-on : “One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist,” Negroponte told the AP,...
16 October 2007

Microsoft Now Officially Open Source...

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..well, some of its licences, at least: Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Publi...
02 June 2007

GNU GPLv3 - Nearly There

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The final draft of the GNU GPLv3 is out, together with copious explanations . If it's just a little too copious, you might try Matthew...
30 January 2007

MySQL's IPO: Hot News - or Maybe Not

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Amazing news - MySQL is planning to go public: after years of rumo(u)r the company is finally preparing to go public, joining a select grou...
20 July 2006

Open Source, Meet the Mainstream

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Matthew Aslett usefully flags up in his blog the rise and rise of open source in canonical top ten lists of computing - like the one is hi...
05 July 2006

The Curse of the Open Source IPO

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There's a nice round-up of open source IPOs by Matthew Aslett. I'm not sure Trolltech really counts as a full open source company...