I first met Pierre Fricke in late 1998 or early 1999 when he was working for IBM. He was one of four people charged by IBM to research and evaluate the strategic implications of open source software for IBM’s business. Because I was a founder of the world’s first open source company, he was keen…

We’ve been setting up our calendar for OSCON 2007 Once again the OSI Board will be holding public meetings and…

Innovation requires imagination. Henry Ford once said, “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster…

The Foundation for Economic Education publishes a journal called ‘The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty’. They published this article in January: Open-Source Software: Who Needs Intellectual Property? by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine

I am proud to be a member of the open source community. I am especially proud when I can use open source to do something really unexpected, like getting my daughter all excited about doing something just a little bit batty, making a promise of success, and then, delivering on that promise, in spades.

I started to respond to David Richards (the CEO of CentricCRM) comment to the thread I started last week, but that thread has generated a number of sub-threads which I think are better addressed separately. (You can be the judge as to whether this thread separation is a good idea or not.) Thus, I gave…

Dana Blankenhorn’s story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people…

Stanford Professor David Kelley is one of those rare individuals who has successfully added a new way of thinking to…

kinshuksunil writes to tell us about an upcoming free Open Source event in Delhi… Information is available at http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi. While…