Open source in comment and analysis
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment For this world open source seems to be a no-go area and judged not to align with how things should be done. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks;... [11 Nov 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment If you're not yet convinced that geeks are a potent source of corporate innovation, consider some recent success stories in the tech world: Dopplr, Dropbox, Flickr, LastFM and Twitter all began with hobbyist geeks... [14 Oct 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile Steinberg is the director of mySociety, a not-for-profit, open source organisation that set up the TheyWorkForYou website, which uses the official parliamentary record to chart what MPs say and... [30 Sep 2009]
Jim Whitehurst
AS Profile Jim Whitehurst arrives in the Agenda Setters list for the first time just under two years after taking over as president and CEO of open source software maker, Red Hat. Open... [29 Sep 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12 months after it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Of Mickos, another judge said:... [29 Sep 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Linus Torvalds has only missed out on the Agenda Setters list twice (2006 and 2008) since it started in 2000 and returns in 2009 at a respectable 20, reflecting the continuing importance of open source... [29 Sep 2009]
Matt Mullenweg
AS Profile Texas-born Mullenweg founded Automattic in 2005 and is seen by some as one of the most influential people on the web due to the work his company has done to produce highly regarded open source blogging... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Prior to joining Google in 2001, Schmidt was chairman and CEO of open source software company Novell as well as CTO at Sun Microsystems where he helped develop Java. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the... [29 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment From humble geek beginnings, the open source and free software movements have steadily eroded the dominance of paid-for software to the point where consumers now expect many applications and basic online... [03 Sep 2009]
Cloud vendor shakeup on the horizon
Comment VMWare has jumped into the fray with its planned acquisition of SpringSource - whose CloudFoundry offering constitutes a cloud application platform, which has to be the main reason the company shelled out more than $400m for what is a... [01 Sep 2009]
BBC is taking tech seriously, so give it a break!
Comment Just think back to the furore surrounding the initial launch of iPlayer, when the online media player was released only for Windows XP - and not for Mac or open source OSes. The Open... [31 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment Following Google's announcement it's joining the OS party, Renai LeMay asks, has the search giant got what it takes to fully embrace open source? They'll say this because if there is one problem that the... [08 Jul 2009]
Balsillie on open source, app store pricing and the next Storm
Comment Symbian has made the leap to open source - would you follow? There may be parts it makes sense to open source - BlackBerry has a rich and strong environment and it... [06 May 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment Naked CIO: Open source ain't cheap Also getting readers writing were the Naked CIO on open source and Ask the Experts on the cloud, with both columns receiving some... [20 Apr 2009]
Naked CIO: Open source ain't cheap
Comment But open source isn't one of them, says the Naked CIO. It still surprises me that open source supporters, activists and vendors make the argument that model is cheaper... [14 Apr 2009]
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