As business grow and more people join the company, the one challenge that I constantly face is how to get ideas out of my head and into the head of people who will execute and realise the ideas.
This may sounds simple until you try to untangle all the strands of detail in an idea and […]
Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
Getting ideas out of the heads
Published October 30th, 2006 in Entrepreneur and Open Source. 0 CommentsCatching up on Open Source
Published December 23rd, 2005 in Business Models and Open Source. 0 CommentsSpent most of this morning catching up with Open Source developments. More money are obviously being poured into Open Source. News.com has an article on this more than a month ago. Commented time and again, open source is still searching for business model.
Coming up with an open source application is getting more difficult in […]
The case against Open Office
Published October 5th, 2005 in Free Desktop, Open Source and Online. 0 CommentsTwo editorial commentary:
ZDNet - In defense of OpenOffice.org
eWeek -
Massachusetts Makes Dumb Move Official
A case of Microsoft doing Blog marketing? Well one can only speculate. There’s nothing new in buying media opinion, happens in the paper, happens in the blog.
At the same time, saying something controversial like what they did generate more responses (Ou admitted […]
Urgh!! Lost my content
Published October 2nd, 2005 in Development, Open Source and Online. 0 CommentsMy two hours worth of editing gone, when the computer hang. Only myself to blame for not hitting the save button more often.
I think the single most wanted feature for an AJAX based application must be auto-save. Not sure if any open source application has done that.
Too tired to rewrite the post now.
On to free development softwares
Published September 28th, 2005 in Free Desktop, Development and Open Source. 0 CommentsSince software developers are typically people in the know and are more savvy, my angle will be more of sharing and exploring ideas, tips and experiences. This is something new I’m trying.
First a quick round up of free softwares I am using and where the strong holds are still to be broken.
Category
Currently using
Free?
Open Source?
Alternative
Programming
PHP
Y
Y
Programming
Perl
Y
Y
Programming
Ruby
Y
Y
Version control
SVN
Y
Y
Version […]
Well no, I’m not a Mac fanatic. In fact I have never own a Mac. The longest I had ever used a Mac is a few hours. That was to type a lab report out of desperation, all the PCs in the computer lab are taken.
But I do have one sweet memory with Mac. […]
Open source still searching for business model
Published September 1st, 2005 in Business Models, Open Source and Online. 0 CommentsForbes runs an article
Has Open Source Become A Marketing Slogan?
This comment is of most interest
Startups are latching onto the hype around “open sourceâ€� to gain interest from venture capitalists and earn street credibility with the FOSS community, but then proceed with a business model predicated on making money by selling closed source code.
This is […]
(Update: See Free desktop applications roundup)
A quick round up of free softwares I am using and where the strong holds are still to be broken.
Anyone know any good suggestions for the few unknown (?), please leave a comment.
Category
Currently using
Free?
Open Source?
Alternative
Web browser
Firefox
Y
Y
Email client
Thunderbird
Y
Y
Instant Messaging
Gaim
Y
Y
IP Telephony
Skype
Y
N
SFTP/FTP client
Filezilla
Y
Y
File compression
7-Zip
Y
Y
Text Editing
Notepad 2
Y
Y
Office suite
Open Office […]
 Open source is fast gaining momentum in Asia.
Asian Open Source Centre is taking shape quite nicely since the last time I saw it. MIMOS Open Source, the Malaysian government lead open source initiative is driving it.
Thoughts on “The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source”
Published July 19th, 2005 in Readings, Business Models and Open Source. 0 CommentsSource: http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html
Open Source developers have, perhaps without
conscious intent, created a new and surprisingly successful
economic paradigm for the production of software. Examining that
paradigm can answer a number of important questions.
Bruce Perens is of course the noted spokeperson for Open Source. Looks like he is now researching Open Source in George […]
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