Do you know what Moore’s, Metcalfe’s,and Reed’s Law are and how they are related? Have your read Wealth of Networks, Democratizing Innovation, Free Culture, The Long Tail, and Small is the New Big? Find out why in this excellent video of Paul Jones talk to TriLug last month. Do you know that iBiblio that hosts [...]

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It seems that open source maven, Matt Asay along with well-known Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley have come to the conclusion that Microsoft doesn’t need open source. Asay contends that Microsoft’s open source activity has more to do with regulators than best practices and user collaboration.
Microsoft’s open-source charade is not about customers. It’s about [...]

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At LinuxFestNW this weekend I ran into a company, Zareason, that sells computers with Ubuntu pre-installed. Not just desktops but laptops that have camera’s, wi-fi, and support for power management of modern laptops.
Zareason started out refurbishing computers in Berkley, CA and soon realized there was a demand for new Linux laptops and PCs. That’s when [...]

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