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Free Software for Busy People

• March 31, 2006
• 6:36

  Red Herring covers open source software companies

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  This week's Red Herring magazine features several articles about open source software, including the cover story about Mozilla. Particularly interesting is another article that discusses how "venture firms are swaming to open-source startups". The article showcases five companies, including Alfresco, which makes an enterprise content management system, Funambol, which allows BlackBerry-like ...
  
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• December 30, 2005
• 19:31

  Startup Offers Unique Delivery Model For Open-Source Software

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  As the article describes, iRadeon is a new company that integrates and sells support for three open source programs: SugarCRM from the SugarCRM project on SourceForge Atutor online course composition NetOffice project management The company is positioning itself as a competitor to Salesforce.com, providing cheaper services per sales person. SugarCRM is targeting the same ...
  
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• December 23, 2005
• 2:40

  Open source software in government

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  On the first of December, I gave a lecture at Parliament's Portcullis House in London. The talk was titled "Open source software in government" and in the leadup it was wonderful to meet and receive help from so many Free Software experts in the UK and USA. The talk was covered ...
  
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• December 09, 2005
• 3:40

  Linux usability

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  Better Desktop is a fascinating site developed by Novell, the company that owns SUSE Linux. They have conducted over 200 usability tests of users struggling with Linux and made the videos available for open source software developers. Genius, and kudos to Novell for investing in this resource. By the by, a ...
  
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• November 08, 2005
• 18:13

  Open-source investing perks up

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  Data from the National Venture Capital Association: Through the third quarter this year, at least 18 companies have received funding, totaling nearly $145 million put into companies with "open source" as part of their business plan description. In 2004, there were 12 companies funded, bringing in $70 million. The latest round of open-source ...
  
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• November 07, 2005
• 19:36

  China’s Bet on Linux

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  An interesting article from Singapore's CIO magazine: . According to Gartner, only about 1 percent of companies in the and Europe currently use Linux on the desktop, and only 3.2 percent are expected to by 2008.[...] Meanwhile in China: According to ’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII), almost 70 percent of ...
  
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• October 30, 2005
• 2:52

  Open source 2.0: New kids on the block

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  Over the last year I have been reading in Red Herring magazine that venture capitalists are heavily investing in startups with an open source software business model. But the statements were vague as the deals are behind closed doors. So it is nice to read some numbers from this article: Remember ...
  
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• 2:42

  Open source for Arab media given impetus

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  It is always interesting to see how many different people outside the Arab world are trying to influence its citizens. In the same week that the BBC announced its new Arabic language satellite TV station, the Open Society Institute ran "a brainstorming workshop on advancing open source software for independent ...
  
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• October 24, 2005
• 18:10

  Podcast receiving software

   » ‎ Free Software for Busy People
  With all the fuss about podcasting on iTunes lately you might be forgiven for thinking that Apple invented podcasting, and you can only listen to podcasts through its iTunes software. Not so. Podcasting is a misnomer, and a better name is probably audioblogging. It allows the creator to make an audio ...
  
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• October 21, 2005
• 0:52

  US drink/drive laws could push open source

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  This is an interesting story about a Florida court case involving breathalyser manufacturers: Lawyers representing more than 150 defendants who have been charged for driving under the influence of alcohol in two Florida counties will file the request. They argue that they have a right to see the source code of the ...
  
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