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Googles (locked down) response to the Cyanogen C&D | Android-DLs
This shows a fundamental problem with proprietary software. Even if your neighbours get it from the developer free-of-charge, you can't always help your neighbours install it alongside their preferred mods.
Do Google get a profitable 'per head' license fee from carriers or manufacturers for these apps, or are they being difficult? Either way, Google's choice not to make these open source gives them a legal right to be difficult.
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These apps are Google’s way of benefiting from Android in the same way that any other developer can, but the apps are not part of the Android platform itself. We make some of these apps available to users of any Android-powered device via Android Market, and others are pre-installed on some phones through business deals. Either way, these apps aren’t open source, and that’s why they aren’t included in the Android source code repository.
Instant (Bad) Karma | RSands Consulting |Nov 2009
Criticism of Symbian Foundation's strategy for building an open source community.
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Add Sticky NoteBut Android and iPhone are growing by leaps and bounds, largely at the expense of Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Actually, this fact is not lost on Symbian’s backers. Sony Ericsson is launching the Xperia X10 Android-based multimedia smartphone in early 2010. Samsung, according to Korean investment house HTC Investment Securities, is going to ditch Symbian completely, focusing on Android and their own Bada platform, announced today. Even Nokia is hedging their bets, with their new, hotly anticipated N900 tablet running the Maemo mobile Linux platform, and not Symbian OS.
- Really? Isn't the smartphone market is a rising tide that lifts most boats? Most people still don't have smartphones yet. - on 2009-11-11
Lessons from Leaders: How JBoss did it – For Entrepreneurs -2009
Case study
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As they went through these stages, we would monitor their progress using the scoring techniques built into Eloqua to tell us if they visited the parts of website that indicated a likelihood to purchase. If they hit the appropriate score, they would immediately be thrown back into the telemarketing queue for direct contact and further qualification.
- if your browser deletes cookies, the salesman won't call you - so if you want to buy, you'd better call them - on 2009-11-09
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So they set out to create the JBoss Operations Network, which was management software to provide visual management and monitoring for multiple JBoss application servers, and delivered to the customer as a SaaS service.
Bundling this into the Subscription provided the key value element that allowed JBoss to raise prices.
- Aha! This must be what annoys people in the 'free software' camp. - on 2009-11-09
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Are Software Patents Evil? - paul graham - 2007 : reddit.com
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the costs for filing lawsuits are too high and don't get to a result anyway. So he has to be more innovative, has to have the better product, higher quality, better support, etc. That protects him far better than any patent could.
And the same applies to the software industry. Make your product, your service better than the competition, even if they try to copy you. Has Michael Dell patented "Direct Sales" ? Why should he ? And he is still the market leader, although everyone is free to copy him
First look: breathe in the Adobe AIR - Ars Technica
Several platforms but not open source
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Although some of the most significant underlying components of the AIR runtime are open source, there are enough proprietary components to effectively prevent third-party implementation of a compatible runtime. This is a serious weakness because it will restrict AIR adoption only to the platforms officially supported by Adobe.- Mostly open standards but not open source - on 2009-10-30
Multitasking On The Nokia N900 Is Awesome | Maemo-Guru.com | Oct 2009
"Multitasking On The Nokia N900 Is Awesome"
Is Google Faking the Open-Source Funk? | eweek | October 2009
Boss of the Symbian Foundation talking down his competitors.
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Add Sticky NoteIn an interview with GigaOM, Williams called Google "evil" and called for the search giant to be more transparent about Android. And it's not just Williams, but some of his crew that also are banging on Google to open up.
- Are CEOs of big open source foundations and businesses becoming more aggressive? - on 2009-10-30
In Industry First, Voting Machine Company to Publish Source Code | Threat Level | Wired.com | Oct 2009
Interesting. I prefer marking x's on paper :)
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She said the firmware on the company’s new Frontier optical-scan machines is written in C# programming language and runs on Linux.
Strophe
"a library for writing XMPP clients. It is implemented in both JavaScript and C for use in a wide variety of languages. The implementations are production ready"
Mapumental
Beautiful mashup of UK maps and geo-data - commute distances and scenic places to live
451 CAOS Theory » Out of control
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open source Community Edition of its Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA this week.
gracedm - Grace Donation Manager - Project Hosting on Google Code
tracks donations and donors
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution - Michael Tiemann
Tiemann's autobiography and history of Cygnus
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she could explain how their engineers would benefit from having us do the baseline porting, support, and maintenance work.
tecosystems » VMware Taps a new SpringSource: The Q&A | 2009
Helping "enterprises" deploy applications more efficiently.
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SpringSource by no means offers a complete fabric solution to compete with, say, Google App Engine or Salesforce’s Force.com, but it does offer a capable, powerful and popular application layer compatible with a programming language that’s immensely popular within VMware’s install base
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SpringSource, on the other hand, abstracts the application from the operating system. By loosening the coupling at both ends of the spectrum, VMware is in some sense attempting to descrease the importance and relevance of the operating system itself. And in spite of the performance of JBoss, that’s a problem for Red Hat, far more so than the fact that VMware acquired a competitive open source stack.
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