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Open source does not mean'open to pilfer trademarks,' suggests Google

10/08/2008  
Some are apparently up in arms that Google is refusing to allow Chrome developers to use its trademarks and the comic book it released to help explain Chrome. To these and others that equate open source with"up for grabs," please pay attention..
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Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst: The Challenges of Competing with Free

10/08/2008  
Red Hat's CEO discusses the company's expansion to new platforms and markets, and the challenges around building solid business models for products that can be obtained for free. - Red Hat, which bills itself as the worlds leading open-source solutions provider, has managed to make free software pay by gathering, extending and packaging Linux and complementary open-source components into certified and supported products that are ready for enterprise consumption.
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NPX-9000 UMPC is inexpensive but underpowered

10/08/2008  
The wave of cheap netbooks, mini laptops, or ultra-mobile PCs has crested with the cheapest yet, the NPX-9000 from Carapelli. Though it was announced in July with great fanfare at a price of£65 (or $110), it has yet to appear on the vendor's Web site. But we got our hands on one of the first units to escape from the factory and put it through its paces. We found that you get what you pay for -- if that. The low price for the NPX-9000 is a bit of a tease. That's actually the price for each of 100 units delivered to a plane or ship in China. If you buy it from an importer you'll see the added effect of shipping costs, import duties, and, in the EU, value-added tax (VAT), so the retail price might be almost double what was announced last summer.
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Linux laptops see 4x returns compared to Windows

10/07/2008  
Do people who pay $299 to $399 for a Linux notebook suffer greater levels of buyer’s remorse compared to those buying Windows machines?
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OpenStreeMaps: free software's answer to Google and commercially-restricted geo-data

10/06/2008  
In a recent article on free software and the Large Hadron Collider I mentioned that here in the United Kingdom The Guardian, a national British newspaper, had founded a campaign called“free our data”. They objected to the fact that the Ordnance Survey (and others), funded by the British taxpayer, was charging business and individuals for its cartographic data thus effectively making people pay for it twice. Their campaign is great but until such times as it succeeds an alternative is needed. A free software alternative. Enter OpenStreetMaps. Read the full story atFreesoftware Magazine.
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Microsoft Profits vs. $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout

10/04/2008  
Instead of having Main Street USA pay for the Wall Street bailout, send the $700 billion invoice to Microsoft. The software giant can afford to pay the giant tab.Here's how.
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The XO Files Part III: Re-imagining the OLPC Distribution

09/30/2008  
Concern over the original distribution plan was what got me writing for OLPCNews.com. The belligerent anti-pilot-project attitude, the requirement to buy the laptops in lots of 1million units, and the hushed discussions about the costs beyond the"$100" laptop. Rapid, bulk deployment is not a good model to introduce technology, particularly in a resource-constrained environment. If you look at case studies of technology diffusion or successful ICT4D deployments (the Grameen Bank Village Pay Phone Project for example), you see the very social process of technology adoption, as people judge their usage of a new technology based not only on features and promises, but about lived experiences of their friends and networks.
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Red Hat: Go support yourselves, Fedora users

09/26/2008  
One of the most frustrating aspects of open source but commercially supported software is that it takes many orders of magnitude of freebie customers to attain a base of core customers who will pay for a glorified product with commercial-grade installation and ongoing tech support. There is always a temptation to try to monetize the vast installed base of users who are making use of the so-called development or community editions of programs. But Red Hat isn't going for it.
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Do-it-Yourself YouTube Uses Open Source Project Panda and Amazon EC2

09/23/2008  
Open source project Panda provides Software to create your own do-it-yourself video platforms -- provided you also pay for the Amazon Web Services.
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Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Nothing to Fear

09/22/2008  
Google controls about 70 percent of the search advertising market. Doesn’t that give it a monopolist’s ability to set prices as high as it wishes? Brad Smith of Microsoft said Yahoo’s gains would be at the cost of American businesses. It does not. Google does not set the prices. Its advertisers do, bidding against one another for the amount they will pay when a user clicks on one of their ads. They do the same for ads on Yahoo and Microsoft search sites, too. Auction pricing is so deeply embedded in this business that you can see why Google and Yahoo innocently thought that their advertising pact, which was announced in July and is to be put into effect next month, would sail through a regulatory review to which they voluntarily submitted. The review continues.
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