Tag: open source

Bans against reverse engineering, like the one Skype recently applied, are a serious security risk.

Open source is a direct threat to market research. Rather than acknowledge this reality, firms like Forrester, Gartner and IDC ...

A private model is driven by private concerns, while a public model is subject to political difference. Which works best? ...

If you reduce the software cost of producing highly functional Web sites, you can increase demand for them.

Right now the tech world is finely balanced between western software and branding on the one hand and eastern hardware ...

If you have an ecosystem, a resistant network of inter-connected bodies helping each other, that's better than a monolithic entity.

Instead of holding the problem within a small community, a proprietary approach favored by both universities and corporations, the problem ...

What this really amounts to is an attempt by followers of copyleft to compete with market changes made by copyright ...

I have never understood the cry of "socialism" against open source, a cry I still hear, but I think it ...

Open source is a friend of competition. Agreements to share basic infrastructure across an industry let all those in on ...