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• Member since: September 3, 2005

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• "I therefore asked the question, "Who will pay for open source in the future?" I (and the audience) suggested that the problem may resolve itself over time as enterprises come to recognize that their failure to replenish open-source communities with either cash or code may come to harm the code commons from which they derive increasing amounts of value."
  
  You're assuming that there is a problem (or will be a problem in the future). Can you please provide some facts to support your assertion that there is (or will be) a problem? I don't think you're giving free/open source software enough credit. Yes, companies need to step up and contribute - absolutely. However, the free/open source software movement is *huge*- companies that don't step up will simply be rolled over. It's not survival of free/open source software that is at stake - it's the survival of companies that rely on selling proprietary software. In other words, you're looking at the "problem" all wrong. In reply to: "Could governments effectively subsidize open-source development?"

  August 30, 2008

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• "In other words, trained eyeballs are better than average eyeballs for finding critical security problems in software. Does this inure to open source's benefit or undermine the "eyeballs/bugs" theory? I'm not sure. I can see both sides on this one."
  
  Not so much. I'm assuming the "critical security problems" this article talks about are in _shipped_ software. While the eyeballs theory certainly applies to shipped software as well, it also applies to software as it is being developed and before it ships. I'm sure many security vulnerabilities are eliminated in free/open source software _before_ it ships due to the eyeballs theory. In other words: 1) developer checks code into version control 2) other developers review this code 3) potential security problems are found 4) potential security problems are fixed 5) software ships. Obviously proprietary software can have code reviews before shipping as well but the point is that _anyone_ can choose to review free/open source software before it ships. But, your article is only talking about those vulnerabilities that are found _after_ shipping, not the vulnerabilities that were found and never shipped. I'm sure proprietary software vendors will never report these vulnerabilities so they can't even be compared to their free/open source counterparts. In reply to: "Apple, Microsoft, PHP headline IBM's list of most vulnerable software"

  August 26, 2008

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• "lighting-fast fingers"
  I assume the author meant "lightning-fast fingers."
  
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  December 22, 2005

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• More States
  Good, I hope more states sue Sony. Throw everything we can at them. Companies need to know they can't get away with this sort of thing.
  
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  December 22, 2005

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• CPG vs. Health Products
  I wonder why CPGs (Consumer Packaged Goods) will focus more on display ads and companies selling health products will focus on search (text) ads? I think, perhaps, consumers of health products associate display ads with cheap, gimmicky products where as text ads are seen as less obtrusive and more informative.
  
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  December 16, 2005

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• Easy
  Reading the API specs it looks like it is really easy to create these widgets. If you know some basic XML, HTML and JavaScript you can be up and running in no time.
  
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  December 14, 2005

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• Publicity
  Sure Apple has to protect it's interests and go after pirates. However, stuff like this always generates buzz and press for Apple which ultimately helps them.
  
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  December 14, 2005

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• Google Trickle Down Effect?
  I don't know if I totally buy this theory. Sure, Google is hiring like crazy and pulling talent from the other big names like Microsoft, but will the effects of this hiring frenzy really trickle down to the average IT person?
  
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  December 14, 2005

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• Do...
  Do visit http://www.gtalkprofile.com to find other people from around the world to talk to. In reply to: "Google Talk do's and don'ts"

  September 14, 2005

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• Finding Other Google Talk Users
  Here is a useful site for finding other Google Talk users:
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  September 2, 2005

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