Loic Le Meur, an entreprenaur and VC is thinking whether to take his ublog open source or not. He got most of the basic advantages of open source movement correctly but still not sure.
Category: Open Source
Asia Open Source Symposium
I drop by at the Asia Open Source Symposium at the Pan Pacific Hotel (which is a 10mins walk from my office) this morning. I mean, I have quite a few old friends are here at this closed door (hmm..) seminar like Shuichi Tashiro from Japan and Ho Jian Ming and Wu Guo Wei from […]
Falling in love with Drupal
I haven’t been blogging for a while…this is because I found a new love…Drupal. Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content […]
Software to Service
Eric S. Raymond, working on his latest book The Art of Unix Programming, wrote: Open source turns software into a service industry. Service-provider firms (think of medical and legal practices) can’t be scaled up by injecting more capital into them; those that try only scale up their fixed costs, overshoot their revenue base, and starve […]
Linux: The Future is Open
Heard that IBM is doing a new commerical in US where they compare Linux to a little boy, “growing fast, taught by the best, gaining wisdom beyond his years, and sharing”. You can download the commerical from IBM (or from here) which, no surprising, support only quicktime, realplayer and mpg on Linux (Sorry folks..no .avi […]