I debated again yesterday with a colleague on open source business models.
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Once More unto the Breach: Open Source Business Models Redux
I was speaking to a Windows Support engineer on the phone last week who uses linux for some aspects of the enterprise needs. He asked me if I use Open Source Software because it is cheaper than the alternatives. I told him no, it’s for the freedom of choice. I have the freedom to install, configure the software and to adapt it for my needs. I can also choose to make any modifications available to anyone else by contributing it back. Well I don’t as I’m not a coder, but I can feed back any
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Open Source is freedom of Choice, not necessarily a cheaper option.
Two out of three of this afternoon’s sessions in my track at the TechDays conference – Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform — were presented by Anthony Vranic, an independent consultant who used to be a Microsoft developer evangelist. His sessions: Building Modular Applications Using Silverlight and WPF Optimizing Your Apps for the Windows 7 User Experience Next up were Anthony Bartolo and Mark Arteaga , who were there to present the session Taking Your Applicat
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TechDays Vancouver: More Scenes from the “Platform” Track
A Dell executive said that his company’s Linux netbook returns are roughly equivalent to those for Windows-based netbooks, says an industry report.
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Dell: High Linux netbook returns a myth
Filed under: Utilities , Windows , Macintosh , Apple , Microsoft , Social Software Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. It seems like it’s everywhere, and people are trying to use it for everything. And I mean everything .
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Control your Mac or PC using Twitter
Would you ever switch over from a PC to a Mac.? Which came first: Chicken or the Egg? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Who really stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Which is better: PC or a Mac?
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The MacBook Experience (Pre-Purchase)
SitePoint Blogs: News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers.
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Using Internet Marketing Tactics to Promote Your Business
Winston Churchill said – “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.” This sums up by blog experience with GraffitiCMS. As many of you have emailed me, my blog has been having problems for about a month
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GraffitiCMS troubles, Microsoft SQL Server and my blog future.
We are habitual credit score worriers. We have been concerned that many small business owners will see their credit scores fall–making it yet more difficult for them to borrow money–through no real fault of their own, …
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Bizbox by Slate – Small Business Help and Tips
The new features of SharePoint 2010 are really starting to come now. Not only from “official” sources but from the “unofficial” ones as Microsoft starts to ramp up the marketing campaign
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SharePoint 2010
My experience in trying to build my first network marketing business is unfortunately probably like many others – a failure. I joined my company and then spent.
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How To Build Your Network Marketing Business The Right Way …
Filed under: Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Social Software Pidgin , a popular, crossplatform, multi-protocol chat app, just got an important update to version 2.6. It’s important because this is the first time Pidgin has supported audio or video chat over Google Talk
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Pidgin 2.6 adds audio/video support for Gtalk
Is your PC attractive forever to do anything? Does it seem to kibosh when you essay to indite a document, exclusive to unstoppered a instance later
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Registry Error Message – Fix This Fast and Make Your Computer Run Like New Again
Filed under: OS Updates , Windows Haven’t gotten around to downloading your copy of the Windows 7 Release Candidate yet? Well you’d better hurry up
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Get your Windows 7 RC downloads while they last (offer expires Aug 20)
Anthropologist Biella Coleman just posted “1998 and the Irish Accent is Why I Study F/OSS” . She quotes a rumination by Don Marti on 1998 as a crucial and strange year in tech: …there was all this fascinating news and code for?recruiting new hackers at the same time that there?was a huge power grab intended to drive hackers out.
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When it changed (1998?)
SMSer SMSer is unlike the other multiple SMS sender app, with this app you can add a personal touch to your messages by including the name of the receiver for each recipient. Usage Instructions: – type your message on the first box. if you want the name of your contact to appear in your message, just type in @@@ where you want the name to appear inside the message.
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SMSer 1.0 – send multiple SMS to your contacts on Windows Mobile
Since its release in March 2008 IE8 has been surrounded by criticism. The Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts website launched by Microsoft in June 2008 to give its latest browser a thrust was met with nit-picking for bias reports.
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Is Microsoft IE8 the Most Secure Browser
July was a big month for online video, according to new numbers from Nielsen.
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Nielsen: Overall Stats Up, Bing Gets Dinged on Streams
The IBM PC, the machine that helped launch the original revolution in business computing, burst onto the scene 28 years ago today.
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Happy Birthday Business Computing, You're 28 Today …
For those of you who are not familiar with OpenOffice , it is an open source software distributed for free with functionalities similar to Microsoft Office. You can make documents, spreadsheets, presentations. You name it.
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OpenOffice 3.1 Is Available For Download – Lots Of Features Added
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